Best options to configure PHP and Apache?

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Maarten Holland	Tuesday 31 August 2004 1:01:26 am Hi all, I'm installing a new webserver for eZ Publish. I've read several things about configuring and compiling PHP for eZ Publish. I'm using PHP 4.3.8 and Apache 1.3.31. (Or is it better to use PHP 5 and/or Apache 2?). I'd like to know what configure-commands I should use when compiling PHP. I found <link href='http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/obsolete/installation/manual/webserver_build_on_linux'>this</link> page about configuring PHP, but that page moved to an absolete directory. Why is that? Can I just follow that directions? On that page is writting it's best to use a DSO, while I've read on the forum that a static build could increase speed to up to 30%. Can anyone give me some usable hints on this matter? Thank you in advance, Maarten
Ole Morten Halvorsen	Tuesday 31 August 2004 1:18:27 am Maarten, First, eZ publish does not support PHP 5 and we do not recommend using Apache 2. When you compile PHP, do it as a static module. This has some performance gain over compiling PHP as a shared module. eZ publish doesnt require any special features or modules, but remember to compile with --with-mbstring as this will make character conversion alot faster. How to compile php as a static module: http://cvs.php.net/annotate.php/php-src/INSTALL?rev=1.25.4.1#97 Ole M. Senior Software Engineer - Vision with Technology http://www.visionwt.com http://www.omh.cc http://www.twitter.com/omh eZ Certified Developer http://ez.no/certification/verify/358441 http://ez.no/certification/verify/272578
Maarten Holland	Tuesday 31 August 2004 10:11:43 am Ole, thank you very much for your reply. I've succesfully managed to install Apache 1.3 with PHP (with mbstring) as a static module. After that I've installed IONCube's phpaccelerator and checked that it worked. I've set the max_exection_time to 0 (infinite) but unfortunately eZ Publish is very, very, terribly slow... Did I forget anything? Do you have some points for me to consider? Thanks again, Maarten
Ole Morten Halvorsen	Tuesday 31 August 2004 11:48:37 am Maarten, First, what is the hardware specs on your machine and which version of eZ publish do you use? Try turning on debug by setting DebugOutput=enabled in site.ini. Have a look at the bottom of the page to find out which part that is so slow. Ole M. Senior Software Engineer - Vision with Technology http://www.visionwt.com http://www.omh.cc http://www.twitter.com/omh eZ Certified Developer http://ez.no/certification/verify/358441 http://ez.no/certification/verify/272578

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 19 2025 01:02:07
Script start
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 01:02:07
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 01:02:07
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 01:02:07
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 19 2025 01:02:07
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.6346 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	60

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0057	590.4453	152.6406
Module start 'layout'	0.0057	0.0039	743.0859	39.4766
Module start 'content'	0.0096	0.6238	782.5625	512.8438
Module end 'content'	0.6334	0.0012	1,295.4063	12.1250
Script end	0.6346		1,307.5313

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0032	0.5042	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0014	0.2155	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0009	0.1464	1	0.0009
Mysqli_queries	0.5841	92.0327	60	0.0097
Looping result	0.0006	0.0895	58	0.0000
Template Total	0.6024	94.9	2	0.3012
Template load	0.0020	0.3126	2	0.0010
Template processing	0.6004	94.6070	2	0.3002
Template load and register function	0.0002	0.0360	1	0.0002
states
state_id_array	0.0008	0.1300	1	0.0008
state_identifier_array	0.0009	0.1375	2	0.0004
Override
Cache load	0.0017	0.2659	29	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0014	0.2132	2	0.0007
Fetch class attribute name	0.0014	0.2242	4	0.0004
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0002	0.0344	2	0.0001
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0016	4	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0007	0.1044	10	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0012	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
1	node/view/full.tpl	full/forum_topic.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tpl
4	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
6	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 14 Number of unique templates used: 5

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs