[suPHP] SuPHP recursive forking

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 06:40:44PM +0300, Jani Ollikainen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:20:09AM -0500, John Lightsey wrote:
> > On a cPanel machine /usr/bin/php is the PHP CGI binary and /usr/local/ 
> > bin/php is the PHP CLI binary.  In /opt/suphp/etc/suphp.conf the  
> > env_path is set to /bin:/usr/bin.
> 
> In smart distributions php is the cli binary and php-cgi is the cgi
> binary..

Agreed/correct.

On FreeBSD, the CLI is called /usr/local/bin/php, and the CGI is
called /usr/local/bin/php5-cgi.  If an administrator doesn't know
the difference, then they should be passing off such administrative
tasks onto someone who does.

> If cPanel uses both cgi and cli with the name php, that's just nasty.
> I think you should try to fix cPanel to have smarter naming of php binaries.

Agreed.

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