[tags]symfony, media temple, fast cgi, anomalies, SNAFU, php, configuration[tags]
Often I run into SNAFUs… generally these are minimized by clever frameworks, design patterns, normalizers, etc. Lately I’ve been working with a Mark Quezada on a client hosted at Media Temple on a dedicated virtual server.
Unfortunately some combination of FastCGI, their build of PHP and symfony just wasn’t working. I beat my head for a few hours and we found out that setting SF_DEBUG to true would get rid of the problem, or more specifically setting strip_comments to off would fix this.
Without getting my hands too dirty, something in the way that sfToolkit::stripComments strips comments (and I don’t know when this happens, but I imagine it happens for compiling and caching parts of the code) doesn’t jive well with our servers configuration.
Needless to say, I very much prefer having full control on as many layers of “LAMP” as possible to ensure that what I want done is getting done, even if it means compiling Apache and PHP by hand.