Re: [mod-security-users] Only as DSO?

[Brian R. <Bri...@br...>]

Alex Huth wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I want to use mod_security and have done some readings. We don't use and don't
> want to use DSO on our webservers. In every howto i see only the option "with
> apx". Isn't it possible to use it without DSO?
>
> Thx
>
> Alex
>

Probably not without a lot of work.  We do not support it as a static 
module.  Apache just makes it too difficult to build a multi-source-file 
module as a static module without having to patch the apache source.

See another thread on this:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.mod-security.user/6695


And some comments on why *not* to use static modules:

http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html


-B

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Brian Rectanus
Breach Security