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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk> on 2009/10/08 13:56:53 UTC

Re: [users@httpd] how to statically link PHP 5.2.x + Apache httpd 2.2.x?

On 29.09.09 11:52, Ro Achterberg wrote:
> I'm in the midst of setting up my production server, which will be  
> running on a fully chrooted non-root LAMP configuration. Due to my high 
> demands for performance and security, I've been advised by several 
> resources on the net to statically link PHP into Apache. However, all 
> information I could find seems to pertain to very old Apache 1.3.x 
> configurations, which are no longer compatible with the current configure 
> scripts.

i doubt static linking would improve security. I think it would make
security maintenance much harder - it's easy to upgrade shared library but
any bug in any part of the stuff would require recompiling the stuff again.

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