Does PHP still have to be installed as a CGI with MapServer 4.4?

[wlx]

I have do so by the maillist's help,and I think the system run healthy.
>
> My hosting provider has asked me this question in light of
> the statement under the What's New section of the MapServer
> homepage that says:
>
> " Lots of fixes to allow running of long-lived processes and
> in multi-threaded environments (memory leaks, mutex locking, etc.)."
>
> My hosting provider would much rather have PHP installed and
> running as an Apache DSO and still give me access to PHP Mapscript.
>
> Is it now safe and reliable to run PHP Mapscript with PHP
> running as an Apache DSO?
>
> the system that I am running this under is:
>   Linux venus 2.6.9OpenITloguid #1 SMP Tue Nov 2 21:57:56 CST
> 2004 i686
> with:
>   Apache 2.0 Handler
> and:
>   MapServer version 4.4.0 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG
> OUTPUT=WBMP SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE
> SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> and:
>   PHP MapScript Version  ($Revision: 1.220 $ $Date:
> 2004/11/16 17:23:13 $)
>
> thanks,
>           Bob Bruce
>
>