Any downsides to running PHP as CGI

[s0me0ne]

I was setting up a test machine with PHP4 as CGI and PHP5 as normal, but are there any downsides to CGI or known bugs or things I need to look out for?

If so I'll use my little bat file switch instead 😉 and not run it as CGI and just have to switch between PHP versions when needed

[NogDog]

CGI might be a little slower, as a new PHP process needs to be launched for each page request, whereas when running as a web server module the one process is always running.

[MarkR]

The main problem using CGI is the process startup overhead. Depending what you're doing, it might not matter.

Mark