Re: Re: Very exciting apache news

> 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 I'm starting to believe that in the future I'm going to want to move away from apache. It is getting so darn phat. I'm using php for it's speed and am considering using thttpd+php4 soon. I'm at a point where I don't want any features from my web server except for speed and security (and standards complience, duh). Any other features that I'm in the market for, I'm relying on php. Just my $0.02. :) -jeremy brand _______________________________________________________________________ GnuPG Fingerprint: 9F5E 95E0 1CC2 E054 84EA 6099 8ACD 9DBA D2C0 5EA9 _ http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more __