Is mod_php walking on its road?

Yusuf Goolamabbas yusufg at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 12:01:31 MSD 2007


On 10/23/07, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:42:54AM -0200, Alejandro Vartabedian wrote:
>
> > Definitively mod_php isn't a good solution at all.
> > I've used php as an apache module for a long time and now with ngnix i
> > turned to a pure cgi solution, the benchmarks with the nginx fastcgi
> > mode are very similar, but the server doesn't get bloated at the short time.
> > I recommend you to forget mod_php, i think the fastcgi architecture is
> > more flexible and scalable.
>
> FastCGI support in PHP currently leaves much to be desired.
> You may try to use PHP FastCGI Process Manager
> http://php-fpm.anight.org/

I pointed this website to the PHP developers. The immediate feedback
was that the license (GPL) was a deal breaker since patches to be
accepted to PHP core have to be of the PHP license

The author Andrey doesn't seem to be willing to reconsider a license change

Regards, Yusuf





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