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I am a bit confused concerning PHP options, either as Apache module or as CGI module. In practical terms, what's the major difference?
I am testing a site and I probably need both (if I understand properly) for different applications although in production these applications will run on different machines. For this testing, do I need to install a second version of Apache?
I don't think there is a reason why would you ever had to use php as cgi when you have it as a module.
If you need to run php scripts from outside apache, you will need the cli (command-line) version, which I think is always built (even if you build an apache module) and installed into /usr/local/bin/php.
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