[SOLVED] Apache2 + PHP : only one script per session

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Hello


i've looked all over the forum for something mentioning this, but couldn't find anything.


Basically my problem is as follows :

i have a website with a lot of multimedia content.
To avoir people leeching directly to the files themselves, everything goes thru a script (in this case mediaview.php?media=xxx) in there.

I used to do 'flow limiting' by reading data then sleeping etc... but i took that out now, and i just stream the data using a readfile($path);


My problem, is that while a user is reading data, he cannot access anything else on the website. ( and therefore is limited to leeching one file at a time).

I've installed PHP and APACHE the way it's explained on the wiki (just in case) and apache is launched with the -D PHP4 option.

edit: i'm using mod_php ... would php-cgi work the way i want to ????

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*bumping this*

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the weird thing is that i have the same issue with two servers, one on fedora and one on gentoo ...


no one has an idea ?

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*bump again*

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For those of you who are experiencing the same problem .. i switched to php-cgi and no problem.


actually i emerge php-cgi, and added a cgi handler for .php4 and put my streamer in .php4 and it all works like a charm.


now all i have to figure out is why apache keeps leaving 'ghost' processes (they don't close with the stop script and are just consuming ram)