[Xitami] PHP/perl as non-CGI

[Peter]

I've spent the morning trying to get php running as ISAPI without any luck.
It sure looks like it should work the set-up is very similar to another
server I use. I don't seem to be getting any errors Xitami is servering the
test page but it is not processing the script.

The FAQ says:
  1.. First off, make sure Xitami is installed and running.
  2.. Next, download and install the PHP binary distribution into some
directory. We'll assume it's c:\php.
  3.. Add '.php=c:\php\php.exe' to the Filter section of the Xitami
confguration.
  4.. Rename the PHP initialisation file, 'php3.ini-dist' to 'php3.ini' and
copy it into the Windows directory. Don't bother trying to set the PHPRC
environment variable, because this does not seem to work.
  5.. Edit the ini file and change the 'extension_dir' setting to c:\php.
  6.. Now test PHP by hand with a small test page, by running it in a
command window, in the Xitami directory:
c:\php\php webpages\test.php


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcio Marchini" <mqm@magma.ca>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: [Xitami] PHP/perl as non-CGI


>
> As far as I know Xitami has LRWP, not FastCGI. LRWP is not FastCGI, but it
> is very similar. "The protocol between Xitami and the LRWP Peer is much
> simpler than the FastCGI protocol, and therefore less prone to
> implementation differences or errors. However, given the right
circumstances
> it is possible to run the same program as both a LRWP Peer and a FastCGI
> Peer with only minor differences in the startup code. "
>
>
> So, you'd have to write your own C adapter to be a LRWP/FastCGI server &
> link to the PHP/Perl interpreter.
>
> What I've seen in PHP (and probably Perl) under Win32 is that they support
> the Microsoft way of doing things (ISAPI or something like that), which I
> don't think Xitami supports ? Anyway, under PWS (Personal Web Server) and
> IIS you can probably enable them in this faster mode (ISAPI).
>
>
> Again, maybe by now Xitami supports ISAPI, but I don't think so. I think
> they don't because they want to be OS-portable, and ISAPI would be
> Windows-specific. I could be wrong.
>
> Zope (www.zope.org) has a regular, thin CGI which then talks to Zope on a
> specific port. So, if you configure Zope behind Apache, you use this
> small&fast CGI which gets loaded/unloaded for every request, but it is
> fast/small. It then opens a connection to Zope on a given socket, and they
> exchange data, and the little CGI passes the bytes back to Apache. This is
> another option, but you'd have to write the little CGI yourself and leave
> the PHP or Perl interpreter running, listening for requests on a port
(like
> a Java servlet engine, etc). The advantage of this compared to an apache
MOD
> is that it is portable across web servers. You can run Zope behind any web
> server just by porting this tiny CGI to the new platform. LRWP, on the
other
> ahnd, is Xitami-specific. MODs are Apache-specific. ISAPI is
> Windows-specific. The Zope solution is very portable with a small
> performance penalty (lightweight CGI + sockets). There's no ideal solution
> :-)
>
> But Zope is designed to be a server & listen on a port, while the PHP/Perl
> interpreters aren't. That's why they need more work, like a C code that
> links to teh interpreter & does the glue work. It would be nice if Xitami
> supported ISAPI.
>
> Sorry I don't have good news. Hope this helps a bit. Note that I may be
> wrong in some points, it's been a while since I looked into this.
>
> marcio
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
> > [mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of Vardhan Varma
> > Sent: December 5, 2001 11:04 PM
> > To: 'xitami@lists.xitami.org'
> > Subject: [Xitami] PHP/perl as non-CGI
> >
> >
> >
> >  Hi,
> >   I've searched the archive, and while the question of PHP and PERL
> > as non-CGI (fastcgi/WSX etc and not seperate process executed everytime)
> > has been raised many time, there has
> > been no post telling 'yes i've done it and here is the url'.
> >
> > Does anybody has PHP/perl running as non-CGI in Xitami ?
> > If yes, are they willing to share the patch .
> >
> >
> > --Thanx
> > --Vardhan
> >
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