From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 11:51:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0A937B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:51:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF9F43F85 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:51:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:51:35 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 18lDlt-0007TU-00; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:51:17 +0000 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:51:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: sweetleaf Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: php support? In-Reply-To: <3E5289EF.4090001@myrealbox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, sweetleaf wrote: > I am needing to setup a groupware "phprojekt" server that uses php. I > really don't want to use apache for security and performance reasons; > therefore I am searching for a fast and secure https server that will > work. The question about php is.....if a web server supports cgi will it > work with php seeing how php is just a script, i am assuming? I have > found shttpd and fnord while searching. The latter both support cgi and > i was wondering if its feasible they might work with php. As to the performance aspect, if you're planning on running complex PHP scripts - especially as CGIs - *especially* a system that says this in its requirements: PHP4 must be installed on the webserver with access to a SQL database. (by which it means mysql, postgres, oracle, informix or ms-sql) then I very much doubt that the http server is going to become a performance bottleneck. As to security: since many SSL implementations have their roots in a small number of libraries, you may find that a vulnerability with one is a vulnerability with several platforms. (This isn't the case with stuff out of the DJB stable, however, 'cause he has a long history of not trusting anything written by others, and reimplementing it all himself from scratch.) Good luck! -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Not as randy or clumsom as a blaster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message