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The default is to build PHP as a CGI program. This creates a commandline interpreter,
which can be used for CGI processing, or for non-web-related PHP scripting. If you are running a
web server PHP has module support for, you should generally go for that solution for performance
reasons. However, the CGI version enables Apache users to run different PHP-enabled pages under
different user-ids. Please make sure you read through the Security
chapter if you are going to run PHP as a CGI.
If you have built PHP as a CGI program, you may test your build by typing make
test. It is always a good idea to test your build. This way you may catch a problem with PHP on
your platform early instead of having to struggle with it later.
If you have built PHP 3 as a CGI program, you may benchmark your build by typing make
bench. Note that if Safe Mode is on by default, the
benchmark may not be able to finish if it takes longer then the 30 seconds allowed. This is because
the set_time_limit() can not be used in safe
mode. Use the max_execution_time
configuration setting to control this time for your own scripts. make bench ignores the configuration file.
Note: make bench is only available for PHP 3.
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