River Tarnell wrote:
Martin Peeks:
Just out of curiosity, why does the toolserver use a webserver which so few will be familiar with, rather than apache/etc?
we previously used Apache + mod_suphp, until CGI PHP became too slow. we explored several solutions and eventually settled on ZWS.
in general users do not deal much with the web server directly; the main user-visible change was from mod_rewrite to rewrite.script. most users do not use rewrite rules, so we considered the inconvenience was acceptable.
- river.
I understand the problem was the process creation needed by mod_suphp (that's also why the switchserver was tried). How does Zeus run the scripts as different users? I thought Zeus loaded php as isapi.