Re: Re: Very exciting apache news
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:52:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Very exciting apache news | ||
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On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> ZG>> There is a new MPM for Apache 2 that allows virtual hosts to run
> ZG>> as User and Group IDs other than the default www or nobody (or
> ZG>> whatever your server is set to run as)
>
> This is great news (though this could mean preformance hit too) for PHP,
> since many "safe mode" problems will get solved. Now we only need a little
> thing - get SAPI for Apache 2 :) BTW, current beta says the filter
> infrastructure is there, and API is stabilizing, so maybe it's not too far
> away.
Well, it will definitely be slower since Apache will have to do file
descriptor passing between processes to hand the request off to the
correct httpd process. But, it will also be more secure than safe-mode
and much faster than CGI-suExec
-Rasmus