hey all,

for those of you who are still getting timeout errors, and the FAQ isn't helping any, I think I might have some idea what is going on.

Starting at php-???, if you compile php with:

-with-apxs=???

instead of being nice and compiling a *cgi* version of php, on solaris and on linux a *command line interface* version of php is compiled.

Hence, when the process tries to fork off for the debugger to listen to, the php that is forked off doesn't have any clue what to do with the CGI variables created to pass into dbg-cli, and the process spins in its tracks.

Now in order to rectify this, you need to compile a cgi version of php. The only way I've found to fix this is to compile php once for using inside of apache, and once for making a cgi version.

Ed

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ps - editorial comment.. what a backwards way for php to do things. the cli/cgi distinction is tenuous at best, and what an *ugly* bug to track down!
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