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PHP 4.x stability?

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 2:49 am
by stj
Hi everybody,

I have a serious problem with the stability of PHP 4.2.2 (ISAPI version) in conjunction with MS Windows 2000, MS IIS 5 and Oracle 8.1.6 (php_oci8.dll): The web server often responds with messages like "PHP has encountered an access violation", HTTP error 500 or nothing at all.

The PHP installation text file says, the "SAPI modules are *NOT* yet considered to be production quality. In particular, with the ISAPI module, you are likely to encounter serious reliability problems especially on platforms older than W2K - you may witness a lot of server 500 errors and suffer from other server modules such as ASP also failing.".

As I may not solve this stability problem with PHP 4.2.2, I'd like to know if there are any *OLDER* PHP ISAPI versions, explicitly known to be stable and ready for production use in a Windows 2000, IIS 5, Oracle 8.1.6 environment. The php_oci8.dll is required, no other special extensions are necessary.

If anyone has some information about it, please let me know!

Thank you in advance,
jan.steemann@hec.de

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 3:56 am
by twigletmac
AFAIK, there hasn't been a truly stable version of the PHP Windows ISAPI yet. Out of interest I did a Google search and it looks like stablity is pretty much hit or miss, is fine for some but not for others.

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