Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:45:33 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: why is the PHP stuff line "off" by default in ports/lang/php5? Message-ID: <20100917014530.GA35456@thought.org>
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Guys,
Tell me if I'm wrong to be ticked off. I just learned that my website
has been down for weeks. My KVM switch doesn't work to let me have
control of the console of my server [ns1|ethic].thought.org. Whether
it was a cheap KVM switch or whether the '09 Dell 550 is defective is
unknown. I have a new KVM switch. I do need direct control of the
console for many reasons, but mostly to portupgrad ports.
In the months since I first got ethic working, everything _but_ X11
worked. In late August I upgraded apache and php5, rebooted, and
just-assumed {TM} that apache22 was working. Weeks ago I did read and
edit my non-blog blog; further reason to assume that everything worked.
A couple hours ago my web server was not running. I traced it to a
missing libphp5.so. I checked the makefile and found the php stuff
defaults to "off". ...I am thinking this is a security risk, but most
of us are reasonably sophisticated about such things ....
Comments, anybody?
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Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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