Apache 2 / PHP DSO -- Status?

[David Badke]

We have Mapscript 4.8.1 running under Apache 2/PHP 5, and it seems 
stable, except that TrueType fonts don't work. They cause an immediate 
segmentation fault in MapScript; we have never figured out why. 
Everything else appears to be working OK.

David


Matthew Perry wrote:
> 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.
>


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David Badke
Humanities Computing and Media Center
University of Victoria, BC, Canada