[mapserver-users] PHP-Mapscript and PHP Apache DSO - any progress?

[William Kyngesburye]

What's this "pre-fork MPM"?

On Nov 20, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> William,
> 
> As Armin wrote, it seems that using PHP as an Apache DSO with the pre-fork MPM would be the way to go. I don't remember seeing reports of issues with that combination in quite a while (I mean several years, so much that we had forgotten about those issues from the old days).
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On 12-11-20 1:37 PM, Armin Burger wrote:
>> William
>> 
>> I cannot say anything for Mac OS in this respect. But at least for Linux
>> running Apache in the classical pre-fork MPM I did not experience
>> problems with PHP-MapScript running as an Apache DSO. Also some stress
>> tests with benchmarking using multiple WMS requests with on MapScript
>> OWS as server backend did not cause problems.
>> 
>> I sometimes noticed some irregular, strange, and difficult to reproduce
>> problems with MS 6.0 and PHP Mapscript (Apache or CGI segfaults), but
>> that was independent of PHP with Apache DSO or as CGI, and this never
>> ever happened with MS 5.x.
>> 
>> armin
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 15/11/2012 04:52, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>> It's my understanding that when running PHP-Mapscript with PHP as an
>>> Apache DSO, under heavy loads it can randomly hiccup/trip/crash or
>>> otherwise not perform correctly.  So I've been maintaining an OS X
>>> PHP-CGI package to go along with my MapServer package.
>>> 
>>> Is this still a problem?  Maybe I missed a fix for this?  Or is it
>>> being worked on (or not being worked on)?  Or is it an unsolvable
>>> problem (maybe due to the nature of a DSO)?
>>> 
>>> I'm thinking about simplifying my OS X GIS/carto stack and dropping my
>>> PHP-CGI package in favor of the OS X system PHP-DSO (a bit old) or
>>> some other better-maintained PHP package for OS X (which will likely
>>> be a DSO).
>>> 

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