I apologize for the top-quoting, but it seemed appropriate here.
It seems the language of the documentation is unclear. It is not that
the CGI SAPI (now called the CGI-FCGI SAPI) is always built, in the
fashion of CLI. It is, precisely, that the FastCGI support within the
CGI SAPI can no longer be turned off. However, the SAPI selection
process still procedes as it did before.
I'll see what we can do about clarifying the documentation. Sorry for
the confusion :).
-- Gwynne
On Jul 3, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Hi. I'm the maintainer of PHP in MacPorts and I'm in the process of
updating our php5 port to version 5.3.0. I originally posted this
message to the php-install list but was asked via private mail from
Christopher Jones to re-post it here on the internals list.
http://marc.info/?l=php-install&m=124654253527650&w=2
In PHP 5.2.x and earlier you had to choose which web SAPI you wanted
-- Apache 1, Apache 2, or FastCGI. The CLI SAPI was always built in
any case, in addition to the web SAPI you selected, but you couldn't
have both an Apache SAPI and the FastCGI SAPI built at the same
time; you had to run "./configure" and "make" twice each, and this
is what my php5 port currently does to allow a user to install both
an Apache SAPI and the FastCGI SAPI at the same time if desired.
On http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration53.sapi.php it says of PHP
5.3 that "FastCGI is now always enabled and can not be disabled. See
sapi/cgi/CHANGES for more details." The same text appears in the
NEWS file. In sapi/cgi/CHANGES it says "Now fastcgi is always
enabled".
Based on these statements, I assumed the FastCGI SAPI would now
always be built, just like the CLI SAPI always gets built. But it
appears that if you use --with-apxs2 or --with-apxs, PHP 5.3 does in
fact disable the FastCGI SAPI, and only builds the Apache and CLI
SAPIs, just like PHP 5.2.x did.
sapi/cgi/CHANGES also states "In PHP5.3 all additional configure
options (except --enable-cgi) are removed" and "./configure --help"
lists the option "--disable-cgi Disable building CGI
version of PHP". Using --disable-cgi, the FastCGI module does not
get built.
So I believe the statement "FastCGI is now always enabled" is false,
because FastCGI is not enabled if you request an Apache SAPI. And I
believe the statement that it "can not be disabled" is false,
because the --disable-cgi configure argument does disable it. I
believe the correct documentation of PHP 5.3's capabilities would
be, "The FastCGI module is now built by default, but can be disabled
by using --disable-cgi".
Note: I did the above tests using 5.3.0RC4 not 5.3.0 final. This is
my first time posting to a PHP mailing list. I wanted to check here
for guidance before filing a bug for these issues.
I searched Google and the mailing list archive at marc.info and
couldn't find a prior discussion of these issues relating to PHP
5.3, but if there is one and I've missed it I'd of course appreciate
a link to it.
P.S: There is a typo on the mailing lists page's description of the
php-install list. It says "How to install PHP with partiucular
configurations, and servers". That should be "particular" not
"partiucular" and the comma should be removed.
http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php
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