Stephan von Krawczynski escribió:
Dear all,
please let me draw your attention to some problems with and around PHP. 10.2 delivers only PHP5 on the isos.
Exaclty and will stay that way.. PHP4 upstream supports end on Dec 31 , 2007. it is EOL. One might think that this is completely
sufficient as PHP5 is thought to be mostly compatible to PHP4 and earlier.
There is no such thing.
The reason I'd like to share this dead-end experience with you is to revive PHP4 in 10.3, at least.
See above.
I found PHP4 for 10.2 on software.opensuse.org, which is great - and brings up a much bigger problem. The PHP people unfortunately managed to screw things up. It seems impossible at this time to install both PHP4 and PHP5 as modules in apache 2.
Dont, use fastcgi, you cannot run both 2 mod_php in the current setup.
Of course one might say "so what, use cgi interface instead!", but unfortunately that tilts even the basic security configured with "open_basedir". The whole thing is quite a mess...
You secuirty relies on open_basedir ? wow, then you have a problem, open_basedir is just a layer of security, you should not realy on it as your only one..
Anyone here experienced in this field?
Yes, Im pretty experienced. I mantain the whole server:php:* namespace, and Im sorry to tell you, you will need to upgrade now, or by the end of the year, the PHP4 packages in the buildservice will be retired on Nov 2007. ( if you want to compare.. Fedora repositories does not have PHP4 since Fedora 5, Ubuntu recently **removed** PHP4 from all their repos(in newer versiosn) RHEL5 /SLES10 does not support it either.. for your own good is time to move.. trust me I know perfectly what Im talking about.