Re: [cobalt-users] mySQL and PHP

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/4/00 3:47 PM, Balázs Nagy at bn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>>> Although Cobalt says UNSUPORTED...does anyone use that combination (mySQL
>>> and PHP) and how does it work? Problems with warranty?
>> 
>> I did an informal survey of the list a while back and found that about 25%
>> of the people on the list probably use PHP with MySQL
>> 
>> I use it on a Qube, Raq2, RH boxes, YDL boxes, Mandrake boxes--they all work
>> great.
>> 
>> Coupla issues for you: the version that is really easy to get working (the
>> experimental RPMs on the cobalt site) was a really old version last time I
>> checked.  There is a known security issue with all but the latest versions
>> of MySQL that is pretty serious.
>> 
>> So you may want to compile yourself the lastest version of MySQL, Apache and
>> PHP from sources.  That gets you in a little deeper water, but shouldn't
>> cause any major problems.  Getting those three working together from source
>> is about a 5 on a 1-10 difficulty scale.
> 
> Actually what you may want to do (if you are willing to get on the edge of
> your
> waranty), is to download the Cobalt Packages on the developers.cobalt.com to
> upgrade your Apache to 1.3.9, and then you get apxs with it which allows you
> to
> compile modules for Apache without the hassle of having to get the sources,
> check the config, etc. There is also a ".pkg" for PHP, but you can only use it
> if you don't need SSL.
> 
> If you have SSL, what you need is get the PHP tarball from php.net (v. 3.0.15
> is
> the current latest) and configure with
> 
> ../configure --with-apxs --whith-mysql
> 
> more info on that on the developer site and cobalt knowledge base
> 
> As far as the mysql rpms are concerned, you can get them from the experimental
> directory of cobalt, they work fine out of the box. (rpm -Uvh name_of_rpm.rpm)

Am I the only one who thinks this is pretty much non-sense to have to go
thru all this?

Apache, PHP & MySQL are a *very* common combination and request.  There
needs to be a supported, up-to-date version of each available from Cobalt.
I mean its nuts that the 'unsupported/experimental' version of MySQL has
these big security wholes, there are a ton of bug fixes in Apache and PHP,
etc.

I realize that someone could maintain these binaries, but I think it is
about time that Cobalt step up to the plate and start supporting PHP and
(optionally) MySQL and keeping it up to date with rest of the security
advisories, etc.

-k