[Webdev] thttpd+PHP, update on status

[Donncha O Caoimh]

Interesting post related to thttpd+PHP. Although the linked README
states you can run IMP off thttpd/PHP, it also says:
NOTE: All requests will be serialized. That means, one long running
script will block all other requests. Choose another web-server, if you
want to execute arbitrary scripts.

which is rather nasty.

Donncha.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [THTTPD] Tuning the system for thttpd
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:37:32 +0100 (CET)
From: Sascha Schumann <sascha at schumann.cx>
To: thttpd at bomb.acme.com

> Which is why I don't think it works so well.  Because it blocks on all
> it's calls, it means it cant take advantage of the heart of thttpd's
> functionality.  It's cool that php can be compiled into thttpd, but its
> functionality seems pretty limited.

    Well, this boils down to choosing the appropiate tool.

    If you want to run arbitrary scripts, choose Apache/PHP. That
    is a very powerful combo. If you want to run scripts which
    execute very quickly and don't perform any complex operation,
    give thttpd/PHP a try.

    I've added a note about this to the thttpd README. If you
    have any additions or corrections, please let me know.

   
http://viewcvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php4/sapi/thttpd/README?rev=1.5&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup&only_with_tag=HEAD

    - Sascha