OpenNA: How to Build, Install, Secure & Optimize PHP

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“This document is a tutorial related to the Apache web server,
you should read it only if you have installed Apache on your system
and want to provide and make it run with some additional feature.
Here we talk about PHP with Apache.

“Everyone using a web server knows about PHP and its
possibilities. It seems that PHP will certainly replace other
language like Perl or CGI for web services in the future. This is
due to its simplicity of use and many developers known about this
and has already developed software that run with PHP on a web
server. When you need to add some popular web service to your web
server, you will inevitably find that PHP is required and that you
need to install it with Apache. In this chapter we discuss about
the way to integrate it with Apache as a module because we already
have compiled and installed Apache in the previous chapter with
modules support.

“In regard to the previous book (Securing & Optimizing
Linux: The Ultimate Solution), I’ve decided to explain you how to
compile and install PHP with most interesting third party services
like MySQL, PostgreSQL, LDAP, IMAP, and SSL support. This will let
us enable or disable which service and feature we want to provide
with PHP for our web server in an easy way without the need to
recompile the software every time we decide to add or remove
features. From the point of view of performance, there is no so big
difference if we run PHP as a module with Apache…”

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OpenNA: How to Build, Install, Secure & Optimize Apache
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