apache2 location

[Chris Janton]

On 2009-03-01 , at 04:34 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>>> php5 has a variant +apache (will be renamed +apache_apple) which  
>>> installs a PHP module for Apple's Apache web server. Apache
...
>> Very cool, I had no idea that was being done, that creates a super  
>> awesome case where people can get a strong dev box up and running,  
>> and still use the system prefs to manage their apache, very cool.
>
> The variant was never updated for Leopard. It only works with  
> Apple's Apache 1, thus it only works on Mac OS X 10.4 and earlier.  
> There really haven't been that many complaints about this, certainly  
> not recently. So perhaps we could reconsider whether we need to  
> offer support for Apple's Apache at all anymore, since by necessity  
> all Leopard users who are using php5 with Apache are already using  
> the MacPorts apache2 port to do so.

Having long experience with MacPorts on a pre Leopard server, uh, pre  
Tiger really...

Apache 1 support (apple_apache) needs to remain for all of us legacy  
folks, please. It really is the only "reasonable" way to keep a  
reasonably updated PHP (and MySQL) on the older systems.

Just "freeze" apache for posterity, or somehow only allow it on  
darwin_7 or darwin_8 ?

>> This also solves OS X Server where it was weak in php support, as  
>> in most cases, OS X Server only really fails on that front.
>
> Mac OS X Server's apache is probably different from Mac OS X's  
> apache in several ways and the variant of php5 was designed for Mac  
> OS X's apache, not Mac OS X Server's.

the php5 variant for apache on Mac OS X Server works just fine. There  
is small bit of configuration file fiddling around, but it's not hard.  
I haven't tried bringing up apache2 on the Panther server.

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