PHP/MapScript on Debian and Ubuntu

[Steven Monai]

Update.

I have filed a bug report against the Ubuntu binary package
'php5-mapscript', requesting that the patch that purposely breaks
PHP/MapScript for CGI/FCGI/CLI be removed. Here's a link:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130304

Hopefully, the package maintainers will have a look and fix this little
glitch soon. In the meantime, I have built my own .deb from source on Ubuntu
(Feisty, i386). It's a relatively small file (532 KiB) that I'm happy to
share with anyone who asks.

-SM
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:09:03 -0500, Steven Monai <stevem at SPATIALMAPPING.COM>
wrote:

>Hello, all (but especially the PHP/MapScript devs):
>
>Before I go to the trouble of trying to contact the Debian package
>maintainers, I'm posting my question here first, just in case someone in the
>Mapserver community has any information. 
>
>Everything I've seen on this list over the past few years has indicated that
>the best way to run PHP/MapScript is in CGI mode. Yet the Debian package
>maintainers seem to be under the impression that PHP/MapScript is most
>stable running in an Apache2 DSO, even going so far as to patch
>PHP/MapScript so that it refuses to run in a CGI (or even a CLI)
>environment. Does anyone have any idea why Debian's 'php5-mapscript' package
>maintainers have done this? Do they know something that I/we don't? Is
>PHP/MapScript not stable in PHP5 when run as CGI/CLI?
>
>I really would like to be able to run ka-map's 'precache2.php' script from
>the command line in Debian (or Ubuntu) without having to compile my own
>php_mapscript.so.
>
>Regards,
>-SM
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