River Tarnell wrote: > Martin Peeks: >> Just out of curiosity, why does the toolserver use a webserver which so >> few will be familiar with, rather than apache/etc? > > we previously used Apache + mod_suphp, until CGI PHP became too slow. > we explored several solutions and eventually settled on ZWS. > > in general users do not deal much with the web server directly; the main > user-visible change was from mod_rewrite to rewrite.script. most users > do not use rewrite rules, so we considered the inconvenience was > acceptable. > > - river.
I understand the problem was the process creation needed by mod_suphp (that's also why the switchserver was tried). How does Zeus run the scripts as different users? I thought Zeus loaded php as isapi. _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
