How should we install Apache and PHP from practical point of view

[akgta]

How should we install Apache and PHP from practical point of view?

Should we:
1. Statically embed the PHP binary into the Apache binary, which has faster performance.

or

2. Installing Apache and PHP Using Apache's DSO Module

And also for the second scenario how often do we need recompile apache or add a module for development, practiacally speaking?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ghodmode]

I've always installed PHP as a DSO. I suspect that the difference in performance in negligible, but I've never tested it, or read about anyone who has.

When you develop your Web applications, if there are performance issues, there are many other points of improvement that can be made in coding and management of database connections and other resources.

If you compile PHP as a loadable module, you should never need to recompile Apache unless you specifically want to take advantage of features or bug fixes in a newer version of Apache. However, if you compile Apache with PHP statically linked, you would need to recompile Apache and PHP whenever you wanted to take advantage of new features or bug fixes in either Apache or PHP. In either case it should never actually be necessary to recompile, though.

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