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Reply to topic   Topic: Prefork
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Arch Stanton



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PostPosted: Wed 11 Jan '06 20:21    Post subject: Prefork Reply with quote
Is it possible to enable prefork in Apache 2 for Windows?
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James Blond
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PostPosted: Thu 19 Jan '06 14:07    Post subject: Reply with quote
No, there is no mpm module for that. Caused by the different architecture of Windows, there is no need for prefork. Multithreading and Handles are working fine.
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Arch Stanton



Joined: 19 Dec 2005
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PostPosted: Fri 20 Jan '06 15:21    Post subject: Reply with quote
So, it's safe to use Apache 2.x with PHP in Windows then? I thought it wasn't because it didn't offer prefork.
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James Blond
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PostPosted: Fri 20 Jan '06 17:44    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sure you can use Apache 2.X for Windows. The question is: what you want to do with that server. For commercial use, me, myself and I won't use Windows, but for development or intranet Apache von Windows works fine.
Any other questions?
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oxalide



Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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PostPosted: Wed 12 Jul '06 14:37    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi,

you say that you can't use prefork on windows...but i found a link saying the oposite, could you please explain me why it is not possible to use prefork ?

http://www.ced.univ-montp2.fr/php/php5_doc/install.windows.apache2.html

TY,
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James Blond
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PostPosted: Wed 12 Jul '06 15:34    Post subject: Reply with quote
prefork is a technik for systems without threading. Windows can threading (more than one process at one time) so Windows realy not need preforking. For that see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mpm.html#defaults
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oxalide



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PostPosted: Wed 12 Jul '06 15:48    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes i get that, but i have a client that need to do benchmark with prefork activated.....So i have to compile it on windows...so i did it but without prefork....so i wanted to know if it is possible and how to compile with the prefork mpm and non winnt ??
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James Blond
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PostPosted: Wed 12 Jul '06 15:55    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ok, now I got you. Yes somewhere in the code or the project definition is set which mpm the compiler choose. Under Linux I would use --with-mpm=prefork as argument for the configure script. Please ask in the Building with Visual C ++ for that.
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