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> hardly anybody uses it anymore anyway Lots of PHP setups do.
by huhtenberg 12y ago
> hardly anybody uses it anymore anyway
Lots of PHP setups do.
- ars 12y agoLots? Really? PHP was one of the first to have a dedicated apache module. Perl is much more likely to be CGI.
- lmz 12y agoI seem to recall cPanel defaulting to suPHP (which uses CGI).
- jamroom 12y agoYeah this is true - a lot of hosting providers run PHP as a CGI as it allows them to run the PHP process under the user account (although it is very slow, and RUID2 is a better solution). If you're not running mod_cgi can this affect the system in any way? Thanks!
- prothid 12y agoYes, lots. nginx + php is very popular.
- pritambaral 12y agoIs fastCGI the same thing as CGI, for this case, though?
- nknighthb 12y agoThey would be too slow to be useful at any kind of real load. Are you sure you're not thinking of FastCGI? That doesn't pass data through the environment, it goes over a socket.
- jamroom 12y agoYeah - it is really slow, but a surprisingly large number of hosting providers run it that way under cPanel.