On May 8, 2014, at 5:46 AM, Zeev Suraski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> For what it’s worth I don’t think we should stop supporting mod_php at this point in
>> time.
>> I think there are still plenty of situations where this is the easier, simpler route to go
>> and quite robust.
>
> Such as?
>
> FastCGI (or fpm) is just as robust, it's a lot more scalable and has mostly just
> advantages. The main thing mod_php has going for it is history. There are no real technological
> advances and the rise of PHP on nginx can attest to that.
There are tools and know-how out there on configuring various aspects of PHP through
http.conf/.htaccess. Sure you can achieve most of that via FastCGI but I do not believe it’s as
simple and straightforward and I still believe the majority of the PHP community is using mod_php.
Re: nginx, the reality is, that while popular, it’s still not being used in the majority of
environments. It’s being used more on the big, scale-out properties than on the massive of smaller
PHP deployments.
I guess we’ll need to agree to disagree on this one :)
Andi