Apache 2 / PHP DSO -- Status?

[Matthew Perry]

On 5/26/06, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> >> I can say that MS4W has been using Apache2, with PHP/MapScript for years
> >> now, and there are no issues that I am aware of.
> >
> >Gregor Mosheh wrote:
> > Neat-o. How about PHP as a DSO?
> > I was told, as recently as 2 months ago, that PHP/DSO was unstable -- it
> > would seem to work, but under moderate load would start acting flaky.
> >
> I'll defer that question to the people who know.  I don't know of the
> DSO status (can someone else please answer?).

I followed the Verbose Linux Installation tutorial
<http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/verboselinuxinstall> on the
mapserver site to get PHP5 running as a DSO under Apache2.

It works.. sort of. Under very light concurrent use, it would
sporadically fail; usually refreshing the page in the browser 'fixed'
it.  And when I installed ka-map, it would drop tiles seemingly
randomly (see attached screenshot).

This lead me to believe that, as of release 4.8.3, running Mapscript
under PHP5 as an Apache2 DSO is not stable for production use. Like
most folks, I didn't have the time to debug this... I have reverted
back to a PHP4-CGI/Apache2 setup with zero problems.

-- 
Matt Perry
perrygeo at gmail.com
http://www.perrygeo.net
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