Apache Install Guide Updated
The Apache Install Guide has been updated with the latest software releases. PHP4 option has now been removed - the guide is only for PHP5 in production environments. Hopefully other guides will be updated soon as well.
Apache, PHP, GD & Mod_Perl Guide
This guide is for those who want to build a stable Apache compiled with PHP, GD, mod_ssl and mod_perl for production servers. Since a lot of people get confused with a source installation, I decided to write this guide to help them out. It's very sad that the latest versions of linux come with Apache2, which is not yet ready to be built for real production servers. After checking out Apache2, I found the following problems:
- mod_perl is unstable on Apache2. After testing some scripts that heavily rely on mod_perl, I came across segmentation faults and weird errors.
- PHP will not compile into Apache2 - it can only be installed as a DSO module. I wouldn't install PHP as a module on a production server since PHP works much faster when compiled into Apache and you will need all the speed you can get, especially if you have limited RAM.
- Some apache 1.3.x modules don't work with Apache2.
I'm sure there are more problems out there, but they are all getting fixed day by day. Apache2 has some very neat features and I hope to see it in production servers soon.
