Christian Wenz wrote:

>>Can someone tell me whether under linux, the php.exe (equivalent) is loaded
>>on each request or if it is like an ISAPI dll under Win32 which is cached
>>for the application?
>
> that's certainly _not_ a Firebird question, but anyway:

Given that there is not a really good PHP list, I would not
complain too much. Anything that improves our support and
understanding of PHP ...

> It depends on your configuration. If you install PHP to work via CGI, it is
> loaded upon each request (but that's no Windows thing, all other systems load
> CGI upon each request if it is set to work as CGI).
> However if you run PHP as a module, it is started once and remains in memory,
> waiting for requests. PHP comes with modules for Apache, Apache2 (still
> experimental) and IIS.

Trying to get an answer on why Apache2 support is still
experimental has been impossible :) I've taken the risk, and
am running Apache2,PHP5 and Firebird 1.5 on a production
system, so we will see when it starts getting heavy use ;)
PHP5 is running as a module in this case, and the whole lot
is on Windows - as the customer is using Novell for the rest
of the network, but the test Linux system seems just as
stable with the same modules as the windows setup.

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