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Moving to PHP5

Ivan | Sun, 2005-07-10 12:51
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With the kind help of our member and Drupal guru kbahey we've completed the move of creativebits to PHP5. Although Dreamhost recently introduced PHP5 as an optional engine we decided to compile our own PHP. This was done in order to avoid some small glitches we were experiencing before and to lay out the foundation for some future developments.

What this means to you at this moment is more bug free operation and a small speed increase. However, as with any change there may be unexpected problems, so if you experience any abnormalities when surfing cb let us know.

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Waleed | Sun, 2005-07-10 16:26

Good news, thanks Ivan & Khalid..

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RSL | Sun, 2005-07-10 20:37

Doubly so, since I wasn't aware you could compile your own PHP on Dreamhost [where I just happen to host the majority of sites I'm working on]. Cool beans!

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kbahey | Sun, 2005-07-10 21:48

Hello all.

Here is a detailed tutorial on How to get rid of PHPSESSID in Drupal and other PHP applications. It is actually a tutorial on how to compile PHP5 locally on Dreamhost, and in essence not very Drupal specific.

It also applies to any other host who allows you to use AddHandler directives in .htaccess. This methods relies on this feature, which is not Dreamhost specific, but not every host allows it.

For a non-techie, it is a long and convoluted process full of techno-mumbo-jumbo, so I don't expect everyone to do it with ease.

Also, using PHP as a CGI is a bit more resource intensive than using PHP as an Apache module (the default on most web hosts), so on a large site, it may eat up memory and CPU and slow things down considerably.

Caveat compilor ...

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suborior | Tue, 2005-07-12 03:03

I did see a "Page Not Found" thing a second ago, it was framed in the right page, but for some reason it didn't want to show me the posts. Weird.

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Ivan | Tue, 2005-07-12 06:25

Thanks! I think I know what causes it. Will try to sort it out soon.

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