[plug] Red Hat Linux v8.0 query

[Luke dudney]

On 13/02/03 11:47, Jason Nicholls wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:45:02AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
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>>I had been advised that RH Linux v8.0 itself is okay, but that the 
>>included Apache (v2.0, I believe) is broken.
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>>Can someone please clarify this, and, advise whether, if the Apache 
>>is/was broken, the Apache has been fixed?
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>Surely a search in the RedHat bug database and/or mailing list would be more
>helpful than asking PLUG.
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>My *guess* is that apache itself is fine, perhaps there are problems with some
>of the included modules. For example, mod_perl for apache 2 is still alpha so
>don't expect it to work correctly.
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Rasmus Lerdorff in one of his PHP presentations at LCA said that the 
Apache shipped in RedHat 8.0 is broken, and to rpm -e it and install 1.3.x
As he's on the apache development team, I'd presume he has some basis 
for this recommendation.
Apparently the actual web server is fine and is great for serving out 
static content, but because of its new design it requires all modules to 
be thread safe; a lot of modules including PHP aren't quite there yet.

Cheers
Luke