mapserver php and cgi/module and security issues

[Umberto Nicoletti]

On 7/7/05, Artur Skalski <artur.skalski at acxiom.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> First I'd like to aks if any one of You has any idea why mapserver starts to
> act wierd when i try to use .htaccess files to block access to some folders
> which are in htodcs (I'm using mapserver 4.4 with php mascript 4.4 apache2)
> 
> and second
> 
> reading a doc about instaling php and phpmascript I've noticed a warning
> considering not to use php as a module of apache but rather as a cgi, but
> I've managed to run gmap demo based on phpmapscript and all seems to work
> properly, have I missed something?
> 

If you run php as a module you could face threading issues and you
server could crash.

Regards,
Umberto
> regards
> 
> Artur
>