[PHP] CPanel, PHP5 as CGI (was Re: [PHP] php 5 installation problem)
Hi! On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:24:51 -0400 Miles Thompson wrote: Thanks Edwin. I guess it was too late and I couldn't formulate a proper search expression. I'd like to hear Chris Shiflet's opinion on the security advantages of running PHP5 as CGI. That'd be nice. But as somebody pointed out earlier, one of the advantages is that PHP can run as another user instead of as the apache user. (Of course, it's still considered rather slooow though.) Anyway, there are some more info here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.cgi-bin.php Why, after years of running PHP as an Apache module, the sudden conversion to CGI operation? Remember, Miles, *your* $Web_Hosting_Company decides (or better yet, *you* decide) whether PHP5 should run as CGI or as an apache module. ;-) I've noticed occasional references of PHP5 having issues with CPanel. I think it was also pointed earlier (somewhere) that it's the other way around. :-) Is it simply easier for ISPs, given the intense competitive cost pressures they are under, to not wrestle with these issues, but to say Here it is as a CGI if you want it. I really have no idea (read: lazy to check now ;-) ) what CPanel is. If it is a program written in PHP (4?), they could just fix it to work with PHP5 -- CGI mode or not. Regards - Miles Thompson Regards, - Edwin - -- The showing of partiality is not good, nor that an able-bodied man should transgress over a mere piece of bread. - Proverbs 28:21 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] CPanel, PHP5 as CGI (was Re: [PHP] php 5 installation problem)
Edwin wrote: I really have no idea (read: lazy to check now ;-) ) what CPanel is. If it is a program written in PHP (4?), they could just fix it to work with PHP5 -- CGI mode or not. I sure would like to know because two of my host can't install PHP 5 due to problems they have with CPanel and PHP 5 working together. tedd -- http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] CPanel, PHP5 as CGI (was Re: [PHP] php 5 installation problem)
Ask them to install PHP5 to work with only .php5 extensioned files. They have no interoperability issues - you have access to PHP 5. PHP4 and PHP5 can safely coexist on the same server like this, as they aren't serving up the same files... -Myk OLeary [EMAIL PROTECTED] BLOG: http://www.blueneedle.com/wordpress/?bnphplists On Mar 17, 2006, at 7:17 AM, tedd wrote: Edwin wrote: I really have no idea (read: lazy to check now ;-) ) what CPanel is. If it is a program written in PHP (4?), they could just fix it to work with PHP5 -- CGI mode or not. I sure would like to know because two of my host can't install PHP 5 due to problems they have with CPanel and PHP 5 working together. tedd -- -- -- http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
