[nycbug-talk] apache stability

Pete Wright pete
Sun Jan 23 21:47:04 EST 2005


On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:15:06PM -0500, Jim Brown wrote:
> * lists at genoverly.net <lists at genoverly.net> [2005-01-23 08:04]:
> > 
> > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:55:37 -0500
> > "steve" <steve at n2sw.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > In your opinion is apache2 ready for production use, am looking at a 
> > > setup that includes php, perl, and ssl. 
> > 
> > As already stated, people run both for different reasons.  I tried 2 a
> > while back but had problems with PHP.  I have not re-tried in over a
> > year, so things may have changed.  1.3 is rock solid and tested, and
> > has been scrutinized by the security conscience for a long time.   If
> > it is OpenBSD you will run 1.3.  
> > 
> 
> More specifically, it's 1.3.29 and frozen there.  See the slashdot
> story at http://apache.slashdot.org/apache/04/06/07/1621254.shtml?tid=2&tid=7
> and the OBSD list discussion at 
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2004-06/0448.html
> 
> Bummer...
> 

depending on which side of the debate you are on this may be a good thing.  i'm 
personally leaning towards this being a good move by the openbsd team, as i really
do think the new apache lisc. is much less free than the original lisc.  anyway
just my 2bits ;)

-p



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