Setting up PHP in CGI in RHEL4
 

hi, guys

How can I setup in cgi not in module my php using apache?
which is the most safe cgi or module.

Thank you.

You're question isn't very clear. You want to use PHP and CGI or one or the other? Exactly what is it that you want to do?

I think I understand the question ...

Most CGI-support languages (Perl, Python, Ruby and so-on) offer two ways to integrate themselves with Apache.

1. One way is that "they don't." Apache simply starts an instance of the language to handle the request, each time a request comes in.
2. The other way is with an Apache "module," which in-effect incorporates the interpreter into the Apache environment. (In effect, Apache invokes the language-interpreter as a subroutine...)

Which is "safer?" "Better?" There is no blanket answer. But I will say that most of the sites I've worked on lately actually use the first scenario. Either Apache invokes a separate process to handle the request, or it passes the request to a separate external program. Kinda surprising but it actually works quite well.

You see, in actual practice the interpreter's memory-segments (and those of the many related-files) are probably going to be paged-in with the very first request and ... in any reasonably memory-equipped computer ... they're just going to stay there, just because they can. Creating and destroying process-table entries is fairly cheap to do when "what you want to execute" is already in-memory.