[support] Fed up with Drupal 7 ... Desperately.....modules.etc

[Zyumbilev, Peter]

I cannot agree. Centos is not certified at all :-) So we cannot speak
about certification at all here.

Compilation and setup can be done in 1-2 hours - I think he wasted more
time than that.

Going the compilation way will probably help Roger go around his mistake
e.g wrong httpd or php config.

Peter

On 07/04/2013 12:07, John Summerfield wrote:
> On 07/04/13 13:23, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> I still wonder why don't you do this:
>>
>> 1. Downloads and install from source apache & php 5.3. There are penty
>> of tutorials how to do this. Compile only php modules you need.(!)
>>
>> 2. Install in/usr/local/  (It goes there by default)
>>
>> 3. Modify firewall to allow port 8080
>>
>> 4. Edit httpd.conf of the newly compiled Apache so you have correct
>> DocumentRoot and make it listen 8080.
>>
>> 5. Start the new Apache on 8080
>>
>> 6. Check how site behaves on port 80 and port 8080.
>>
>> A) If it is better on 8080  shut down primary Apache, and change teh
>> port of the new one on 80.
>>
>> B) If it is the same, check database - run check and repair mysql tables
>> - might be broken indexes or something.
>>
>>
>> Peter
> 
> Because it's a waste of time. If he's running on RHEL or CentOS (he said 
> he'd test on CentOS) he's using the same software that carries the 
> certification demanded by all the largest companies in the world and on 
> which red Hat bets its business.
> 
> If he's still testing on Fedora, then testing on CentOS is essential. 
> Fedora is quite likely to be broken, but probably better than Apache's 
> apache and PHP's PHP because they have undergone additional testing and 
> hammering by Good Folk from Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress and any other 
> significant open source project using PHP.
> 
> I think it has to be something not certified such as Drupal or Roger.
>