Itk+apache - does anybody use it?

[iprodua]

Does anybody use ITK+APACHE. Is it stable? How about perfomace and memory usage? Is it better than fast-cgi?

[kodifica]

Stuart Herbert did a fantastic review:
http://blog.stuartherbert.com/php/2008/04/19/using-mpm-itk-to-secure-a-shared-server/

I also suggest you to take a look at the whole series:
http://blog.stuartherbert.com/php/category/the-web-platform/

As Stuart outlines, ITK (http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/) is awesome for four reasons:


once installed, it requires almost no configuration:

<VirtualHost ...>
...
AssignUserId user group <-- It's all you need, really!
...
</VirtualHost>
it's much faster than suPHP / suEXEC (but mpm-peruser is yet much faster (http://blog.stuartherbert.com/php/2008/03/20/using-mpm-peruser-to-secure-a-shared-server/))
you're not bound to suPHP / suEXEC limitations (PHP authentication anyone?)
you can use mod_php -- WIN!


Also, Debian repositories sport an awesome apache2-mpm-itk package (http://packages.debian.org/stable/apache2-mpm-itk) ready to use -- EPIC WIN!

[kodifica]

About performance, here's what Steinar H. Gunderson (ITK creator) says (http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/):

(Scroll down 'till Quirks and warnings section)


[...] mpm-itk [...] it's being run in production at several sites in the world [...] some as large as ~10 million hits a day.

So, yes, it's fairly stable ;)

[nobaloney]

Has anyone compared or reviewed it in comparison to mod_ruid2?

Jeff

[zEitEr]

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192487&postcount=37