Posted by John Drako on 10/13/38 11:34

When PHP 5 was first released over a year ago, there was a small bit on
the PHP site that its developers do not recommend running it with Apache
2 because of thread safety issues.

I'm setting up a new server and would like to use the latest versions of
Apache (2.2) PHP (5.1.1) and MySQL (5.0.16).

The site that will be running on this rig is very busy; on the order of
3 - 4 million requests per 24 hours, all of them PHP pages hitting the
database (static pages like CSS, images and other pages are served from
a different machine and are on the order of 5 million requests per day).

Anybody has had any problems with such a setup? Can you share?

I couldn't find the initial recommendation from the PHP developers on
php.net, do you know if it still stands or has things changed since
then?

I will be testing the new setup, but I've often found that synthetic
tests don't mirror the real world often, and I would like to have a
better idea before putting the new setup into production.

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