PHP/Apache 2 question

Richard Hubbard rhubby at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 9 17:10:42 EDT 2003


Thanks.  That was my gut feeling, but I needed someone
to hold my hand and say "that's okay, sonny"! :-)

--- Mark Musone <mmusone at shatterit.com> wrote:
> Php/apache2 shouldn’t be a problem..i wouldn’t worry
> about it in your
> environment..
> 
> One thing to keep in mind is that your php
> application shouldn’t change
> even if you do need to jump down to apache-1, so it
> really shouldn’t
> matter what apache you use in the end.
> 
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org
> [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
> Richard Hubbard
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 8:12 AM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: PHP/Apache 2 question
> 
> I know this is a difficult question to get a precise
> answer to, so all I'm really looking for is a 'big
> picture' answer.
> 
> The php website says that php with Apache2 is still
> expirimental and not recommended for production use.
> 
> However, many of the simple scripts i've tried seem
> to
> work without a problem.
> 
> Is this issue based on lack of testing for security
> issues/load issues or something else?  Essentially,
> I
> have a student testing and grading system planned
> that
> initially will only be used for 20 students at a
> time,
> with the web server brought up just before the test,
> and brought down just after the test.  In this way,
> there will be no extended run times and few if any
> security issues dealing with someone trying large
> scale hacks on the site at night.  Is PHP/Apache 2
> combination too unstable for this, or is php.net
> only
> warning us not to put our entire business on a large
> scale e-commerce site using apache 2?
> 
> Thanks for the input.
> 
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