[Pidgin] #3: Get a webpage

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#3: Get a webpage
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  Reporter:  seanegan  |       Owner:  joekepley
      Type:  task      |      Status:  assigned 
  Priority:  major     |   Milestone:           
 Component:  webpage   |     Version:  2.0      
Resolution:            |    Keywords:           
   Pending:  0         |  
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Comment (by joekepley):

 > I will not open FTP up. It is a significant security risk, in that it
 does not handle passwords well. I can grant a shell account to one person
 if necessary.

 That's preferable for us as well. We use ssh with key-only authentication
 whereever possible. I can provide a public key.

 > Scratch that, I cannot install php4 and php5 in parrallel, using
 packages.

 Unfortunately, the official eZ Pub installs are indeed bound to php4. eZ
 systems is skipping php 5 entirely and targeting the eZp 4.x branch at php
 6. There's a community effort to provide a php 5 compatible port. I've
 heard good reports on it but I'm not sure how complete it is, or how
 diligent the authors are at tracking the main release.

 On our servers, I've dealt with this by running php4 as a module
 (libapache2-mod-php4) , and php5  as a CGI (php5-cgi) through FastCGI
 (libapache2-mod-fcgid). None of the php5 apps I'm using require php to be
 run as a module (ez does), so this allows both php4 and php5 to run on the
 same apache2 install (under different vhosts) and perform well. I'm not
 sure about etch, but I'm able to maintain this scenario on an Ubuntu Edgy
 server using apt (no custom compiles), so I would imagine that it would
 work on etch as well.

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