On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Andrew Hodgson wrote:

> What is the general stability of the Ubuntu packages such as Apache etc
> like? I took a brief look at the server, and it seems like some of the
> packages are coming from Lenny? What are the differences between the
> Debian and Ubuntu Apache/PHP/MySQL packages?
>

I have concerns at over how Ubuntu introduce MySQL authing in their
version of Apache 2.2.8 (and earlier versions, but they were complicated
for legal reasons, but that was solved as of 2.2.8). They are using a way
designed for 1.x/2.0, and a few people over the times have asked for help
on the apache lists unable to get it working properly, once they remove
the Ubuntu package and install from source and use the modern way (mod_dbd),
it works perectly for them.

(As of Apache 2.2.8 simply using configure option --with-mysql is all
thats needed for MySQL support, 2.2.[4|6] required a few extra steps since
the mysql 'c' file could not legally be included in those Apache versions)


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Res

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