This page seeks to give an overview of the problems with php, mod-fcgid and mod-fastcgi configuration in wheezy. More info is at 687307

sf: XXX: I have not tested all this info. Mostly I have only looked at config and source code.

sf: XXX: This is work in progress.

Status quo

Squeeze

Wheezy (at 2012-10-15)

What does Apache do

Deciding if/which handler gets executed is two steps:

Things to take into account

Possible solutions

Leave at is in wheezy, add documentation

E.g. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687307#87

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Con:

Revert to what we had in squeeze

Pro:

Con:

Revert to what we had in squeze, but use non-magic types in /etc/mime.types

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687307#111

Pro:

Con:

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