Re: php running as module or cgi?

On 11 November 2010 00:46, Al <news@ridersite.org> wrote: > Briefly, what are the trade offs on a typical shared host? > > I've done a little research and can't seem to find anything outstanding > either way. > > Seems like as an Apache module is faster. This argument makes sense. > > CGI is more secure, this argument doesn't seem too persuasive to me. Maybe > I'm missing something. > > Thanks.... I used to run PHP in ISAPI (on Windows with Sambar Server). Probably the 1 big thing at the time was database connection persistence. But that was a LONG time ago. Everything is a LOT faster and now I use IIS+FastCGI+PHP and I no longer use DB connection persistence as there were issues when accessing multiple databases using the dbselect style functions. I don't know if Apache supports fast cgi (I'd be surprised if it didn't). But in a security vs speed contest, security should always win. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY