[Mapserver-users] --with-php, Mapserver 4.0.1, and Fedora

[Lindsay C. Blanton]

> Note that PHP MapScript requires PHP configured as a CGI, so 
> if your PHP 
> RPM is configured as an Apache module that could explain the problems 
> you had.

Yikes!  This is sure to prevent a lot of folks from implementing php
mapscript, due to a lot of hosting providers, and most PHP/Apache
configurations running php as a module vs. as a CGI.  

Is there anything in the overall architecture preventing you guys from
developing this to run in the standard PHP/Apache configurations that so
many people run (as a module)?

Its a well known fact that running PHP as a CGI introduces performance
issues for busy sites, since the system has to start a new process and
load the PHP interpreter for each access, creating and destroying db
connections and filehandles... Whew! ;-) 

Curious..?

Lindsay

Lindsay C. Blanton
Webmaster
www.radioreference.com