John DeStefano wrote:
I upgraded my system from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.1-STABLE last week, and my web server immediately stopped serving PHP pages, where I had no problem doing so before. Instead of processing the PHP code on the server and displaying the result in a browser, browsing to any page containing PHP code resulted in a prompt to download the PHP page as a file.
As you are probably already painfully aware, this is *usually* due to the absence of the necessary lines in the httpd.conf file; specifically, AddModule and LoadModule (pointing to the PHP shared object) and AddType (referring to the MIME type for PHP files).
/usr/ports/UPGRADING mentions that PHP has been streamlined and must be recompiled to work with Apache and other packages. After deinstalling, configuring (where applicable), and reinstalling PHP5, php5-extensions, and apache2 to the latest versions, not only were PHP files not being served, but my web server was toast: "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server."
Not toast, exactly. Another configuration error, most likely. httpd.conf tells the server which file(s) is/are acceptable as INDEX files. If all your index files were "index.php", for example, and the httpd.conf file (which is new, apparently?) says that only "index.html" files are allowed as INDEX files, you'll get this error every time.
I edited the new apache config file (now located in /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf) with my system information, including a DocumentRoot path. But when I started apache, I got some very peculiar errors: "Warning: DocumentRoot [/www/docs/dummy-host.example.com] does not exist Warning: DocumentRoot [/www/docs/dummy-host2.example.com] does not exist" Not only did I confirm beforehand that I had set the DocumentRoot path, and that apache was using the correct config file... but these "dummy" paths didn't exist in the config file! I learned eventually that a new apache directive splits out virtual host directives to a new include file (/usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf). Then I learned after getting a server warning ("NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts") that the syntax has been slightly modified, so that the IP/port value of each VirtualHost specification must match that of the NameVirtualHost directive (i.e., "NameVirtualHost *:80" and "<VirtualHost *:80>"). Still having trouble though: my "main" site loads properly, but the other virtual hosts aren't. Browsing to any virtual host address other than the default results in either the wrong content or an error. Here's what my httpd-vhosts.conf looks like: NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.SiteA.com ServerAlias SiteA.com *.SiteA.com DocumentRoot /usr/www ErrorLog /var/log/httpd-SiteA-error.log CustomLog /var/log/httpd-SiteA-access.log combined </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.SiteB.com ServerAlias SiteB.com *.SiteB.com DocumentRoot /usr/www2 ErrorLog /var/log/httpd-SiteB-error.log CustomLog /var/log/httpd-SiteB-access.log combined </VirtualHost>
IANAE here, but that's not like my httpd.conf, in which the ports aren't specified. I also don't use ServerAlias directives. Like I said, no expert.
So, what's happening is that SiteA works as expected, but browsing to SiteB brings you to SiteA, or doesn't load at all ("403" error). In addition, I'm back to my original problem, where PHP files are not loading, and browsing to a PHP page prompts the user to download the page as a file. Any help on either the virtual hosts or the PHP download issue would be greatly appreciated.
You said you did this already, but I'd again make **sure** I was editing the correct httpd.conf. Get the right syntax, and it'll be there. Watch out for "IF" syntax, also. Can you post the relevant lines (AddModule, LoadModule, AddType) and whether or not they are contained in an "IF" ?? Kevin Kinsey -- How do you explain school to a higher intelligence? -- Elliot, E.T. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"