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.
