[cobalt-developers] php 4.2.1 stability

[Sam Vilain <sam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

Saw your post of a while ago about php 4.2.1 packaging:

> Pear will be included in the new release. We will also see if we can easily
> create a package for RaQ 3 and possibly XTR and RaQ 550 as well. We are
> however currently experiencing serious problems getting the GD functions
> working in 4.2.1. They work fine in 4.1.2, but since 4.2.0 any Image
> function segfaults the apache/php instance and no output is sent to the
> browser.
> If anyone has had similar issues (or has read about them) and knows about a
> (possible) fix, please let us know at webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Consider compiling php to run in FastCGI mode, and packaging up the FastCGI 
Apache module in your Apache package.  php operates in this manner with Zeus 
extremely well, and with Apache throughput is 20-30% increased, with more 
reliable response delivery.  Get php out of that messy Apache process, less 
things messing around without memory protection in the same bugbase, er, 
codebase.

However, if that doesn't work, I suggest you take a look at what they've done 
with the Debian php packages (http://packages.debian.org/php) and try to 
replicate that...

Sam.