Re: [PHP] HOWTO run PHP4 and PHP5 on Apache/Linux
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 03:29:18PM -0500, AJL wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:04:11PM -0500, AJL wrote: I ran into so many problems trying to set this up that I thought I'd post my notes to hopefully save others some trouble. I found most of the information I needed at: http://rayh.co.uk/archives/13_PHP5__PHP4_side_by_side.html but the link doesn't seem to be working anymore, so here are my notes. Versions: PHP4.x module (already compiled and installed, this was straightforward in docs at www.php.net) PHP5.0.0 cgi RedHat linux 6.x Apache 1.3.22 PHP5 configure command: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/php/php5.0.0 \ --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php/php5.0.0/ \ --with-config-file=/usr/local/php/php5.0.0/php.ini \ --enable-force-cgi-redirect \ --disable-path-info-check \ --enable-safe-mode \ --disable-short-tags \ --with-regex=system \ --with-mysql \ --enable-debug \ --with-mcrypt \ --enable-versioning \ --disable-libxml NOTE: when I enabled '--enable-discard-path', pages would load blank. Don't use this unless you know what you are doing. I don't understand exactly what this does. NOTE: The options '--with-apxs' and '--with-apache' tell configure to build apache module and CLI. The absence of these tells it to build the CGI version. So DO NOT USE them if you want the CGI version. make make test make install Add the following to httpd.conf (must be in the generic server settings, NOT in a virtual host): ScriptAlias /cgi-php5/ /usr/local/php/php5.0.0/bin/ Directory /usr/local/php/php5.0.0/bin/ Options +ExecCGI Allow From All /Directory Foreach virtual host you want to use php5 on: Create a directory named 'cgi-php5' one level above the document root. This will most likely be in the same directory that has the cgi-bin directory in it. Foreach directory that you want to us php5 for: Add the following to .htaccess file (or virtual host inside a Directory container): Action php5-script /cgi-php5/php AddHandler php5-script .php Options +ExecCGI This is an excellent solution because: - You only have to restart apache once. After that, you can add .htaccess files to enable php5 interpretation whereever you want. - You can upgrade/downgrade php5 without touching apache. - You don't have clunky file extensions like .php5 or anything else that will be difficult to change later on down the road. PROBLEMS: So far, I cannot figure out why $_POST is empty when an html form is sent with method=post. GET works fine. In all my searching, I think it has something to do with how apache is setup; not with how php is configured. I've tried the default php-dist ini file, I've tried many different variations of php configure commands. None of them do the trick. PHP bug list has some posts from people with the same problem and then they said they found a problem in apache setup that fixed it. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php PROBLEM RESOLUTION: I finally found the problem: It was the mod_bandwidth module in Apache. I was tipped off to this from bug report: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16595 I disabled the module (commented the LoadModule and AddModule lines in httpd.conf) and $_POST is populated as expected now. The faq for mod_bandwidth at: http://www.cohprog.com/v3/bandwidth/faq-en.html indicates that if configured incorrectly, CGI may stop working. -- Andy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Yet another note: DO NOT include the configure directive '--disable-libxml' as the above example shows. This will cause the PEAR installation to fail. (Of course, if you don't want PEAR or xml support, feel free to leave it in. If you don't know if you need/want PEAR and xml, just go ahead and allow them to be included and remove '--disable-libxml' from the configure command.) -- Andy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] HOWTO run PHP4 and PHP5 on Apache/Linux
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:04:11PM -0500, AJL wrote: I ran into so many problems trying to set this up that I thought I'd post my notes to hopefully save others some trouble. I found most of the information I needed at: http://rayh.co.uk/archives/13_PHP5__PHP4_side_by_side.html but the link doesn't seem to be working anymore, so here are my notes. Versions: PHP4.x module (already compiled and installed, this was straightforward in docs at www.php.net) PHP5.0.0 cgi RedHat linux 6.x Apache 1.3.22 PHP5 configure command: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/php/php5.0.0 \ --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php/php5.0.0/ \ --with-config-file=/usr/local/php/php5.0.0/php.ini \ --enable-force-cgi-redirect \ --disable-path-info-check \ --enable-safe-mode \ --disable-short-tags \ --with-regex=system \ --with-mysql \ --enable-debug \ --with-mcrypt \ --enable-versioning \ --disable-libxml NOTE: when I enabled '--enable-discard-path', pages would load blank. Don't use this unless you know what you are doing. I don't understand exactly what this does. NOTE: The options '--with-apxs' and '--with-apache' tell configure to build apache module and CLI. The absence of these tells it to build the CGI version. So DO NOT USE them if you want the CGI version. make make test make install Add the following to httpd.conf (must be in the generic server settings, NOT in a virtual host): ScriptAlias /cgi-php5/ /usr/local/php/php5.0.0/bin/ Directory /usr/local/php/php5.0.0/bin/ Options +ExecCGI Allow From All /Directory Foreach virtual host you want to use php5 on: Create a directory named 'cgi-php5' one level above the document root. This will most likely be in the same directory that has the cgi-bin directory in it. Foreach directory that you want to us php5 for: Add the following to .htaccess file (or virtual host inside a Directory container): Action php5-script /cgi-php5/php AddHandler php5-script .php Options +ExecCGI This is an excellent solution because: - You only have to restart apache once. After that, you can add .htaccess files to enable php5 interpretation whereever you want. - You can upgrade/downgrade php5 without touching apache. - You don't have clunky file extensions like .php5 or anything else that will be difficult to change later on down the road. PROBLEMS: So far, I cannot figure out why $_POST is empty when an html form is sent with method=post. GET works fine. In all my searching, I think it has something to do with how apache is setup; not with how php is configured. I've tried the default php-dist ini file, I've tried many different variations of php configure commands. None of them do the trick. PHP bug list has some posts from people with the same problem and then they said they found a problem in apache setup that fixed it. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php PROBLEM RESOLUTION: I finally found the problem: It was the mod_bandwidth module in Apache. I was tipped off to this from bug report: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16595 I disabled the module (commented the LoadModule and AddModule lines in httpd.conf) and $_POST is populated as expected now. The faq for mod_bandwidth at: http://www.cohprog.com/v3/bandwidth/faq-en.html indicates that if configured incorrectly, CGI may stop working. -- Andy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: POST superglobal is empty [RESOLVED]
Hi All,
I finally found the problem: It was the mod_bandwidth module in
Apache. I was tipped off to this from bug report:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16595
I disabled the module (commented the LoadModule and AddModule lines in
httpd.conf) and $_POST is populated as expected now.
The faq for mod_bandwidth at:
http://www.cohprog.com/v3/bandwidth/faq-en.html
indicates that if configured incorrectly, CGI may stop working.
FYI: Regarding my other questions:
The code below shows an example of reading data from stdin. If POST
data is read properly by php, there will be nothing on stdin.
However, if you set post_max_size to a (very) small value, there will
be something on stdin and the code below will read and display it.
You will also get a warning that CONTENT_LENGTH is greater than
post_max_size. The code compares the values of CONTENT_LENGTH and
post_max_size and warns if post_max_size is smaller.
Hope this helps all of you out there who are having similar problems.
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On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:47:35PM -0500, AJL wrote:
I tried the C code below and I get post data from Apache fine.
Now I tried to test that php gets data on stdin and that appears to
fail. Maybe I tested wrong, can anyone verify if this test should
work?
Step 1: Set 'post_max_size = 1' in php.ini
Step 2: Send html form post to this code:
?php
if($_ENV['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{
if (strcasecmp($_ENV['REQUEST_METHOD'], 'POST') == 0)
{
$cl = $_ENV['CONTENT_LENGTH'];
$stdin = fopen('php://stdin', 'r');
if(!$stdin) {print('Error opening stdin'); exit(1);}
$raw_data = fgets($stdin, $cl);
fclose($stdin);
print(STDINbrSTRLEN = .strlen($raw_data));
print('pre');
print($raw_data);
print('/pre');
}
}
print('hrENVpre');
print_r($_ENV);
print('/pre');
?
ENV variables all look correct. stdin ($raw_data) appears to be
empty, strlen returns 0. The CONTENT_LENGTH environment variable is
reported correctly and changes according to how much data is posted.
Is fopen('php://stdin', 'r'); the correct way to read from stdin?
Are there any other ways to read from stdin?
Is post_max_size = 1 a valid setting?
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On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 11:18:26PM -0500, AJL wrote:
Yeah, I would expect a 50x response for a Deny from all. I tried
adding the Limit directive to .htacces in both the cgi directory and
the www directory, no luck:
Limit POST
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
/Limit
I found this C code:
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/httpd/Unix/ncsa_httpd/cgi/cgi-src/post-query.c
and compiled it and redirected my sample code (posted earlier) and I
get the posted form variables fine. So maybe Apache CGI setup is
working okay.
The next logical step seems to be to see what php is getting on stdin
and what environment variables are set. I know I can check the
environment variables with $_ENV. Anyone know how I can get an exact
copy of the data that was passed on stdin?
--
Andy
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:20:23AM +, Curt Zirzow wrote:
* Thus wrote AJL:
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:55:16PM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:
Sounds like Apache just isn't passing in POST data. Are you *sure*
there's Apache directive for this?
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking more and more, apache not passing it in
or in a way that php is not understanding.
Anyone know of possible apache settings/directives that affect how CGI
programs are invoked and/or how data is passed to them?
Location /cgi-bin # or similar
Limit POST
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
/Limit
/Location
But, you technically should get a 50x error with that.
Curt
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Re: [PHP] Re: POST superglobal is empty
Not a dumb idea, I have tried that with no success. Thanks for the ideas. Keep 'em coming. I recall seeing a conversation somewhere (php bugs, I think) that there is a function to call that will return the raw input from stdin. Anyone know what that function is? -- Andy On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:46:48PM +1000, Paul Birnstihl wrote: Might be a dumb idea but have you tried putting method=POST instead of method=post ? Andy Loftus wrote: Does anyone have any ideas as to why $_POST would be empty when submitting a form to php? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: POST superglobal is empty
I tried the C code below and I get post data from Apache fine.
Now I tried to test that php gets data on stdin and that appears to
fail. Maybe I tested wrong, can anyone verify if this test should
work?
Step 1: Set 'post_max_size = 1' in php.ini
Step 2: Send html form post to this code:
?php
if($_ENV['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{
if (strcasecmp($_ENV['REQUEST_METHOD'], 'POST') == 0)
{
$cl = $_ENV['CONTENT_LENGTH'];
$stdin = fopen('php://stdin', 'r');
if(!$stdin) {print('Error opening stdin'); exit(1);}
$raw_data = fgets($stdin, $cl);
fclose($stdin);
print(STDINbrSTRLEN = .strlen($raw_data));
print('pre');
print($raw_data);
print('/pre');
}
}
print('hrENVpre');
print_r($_ENV);
print('/pre');
?
ENV variables all look correct. stdin ($raw_data) appears to be
empty, strlen returns 0. The CONTENT_LENGTH environment variable is
reported correctly and changes according to how much data is posted.
Is fopen('php://stdin', 'r'); the correct way to read from stdin?
Are there any other ways to read from stdin?
Is post_max_size = 1 a valid setting?
--
Andy
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 11:18:26PM -0500, AJL wrote:
Yeah, I would expect a 50x response for a Deny from all. I tried
adding the Limit directive to .htacces in both the cgi directory and
the www directory, no luck:
Limit POST
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
/Limit
I found this C code:
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/httpd/Unix/ncsa_httpd/cgi/cgi-src/post-query.c
and compiled it and redirected my sample code (posted earlier) and I
get the posted form variables fine. So maybe Apache CGI setup is
working okay.
The next logical step seems to be to see what php is getting on stdin
and what environment variables are set. I know I can check the
environment variables with $_ENV. Anyone know how I can get an exact
copy of the data that was passed on stdin?
--
Andy
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:20:23AM +, Curt Zirzow wrote:
* Thus wrote AJL:
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:55:16PM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:
Sounds like Apache just isn't passing in POST data. Are you *sure*
there's Apache directive for this?
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking more and more, apache not passing it in
or in a way that php is not understanding.
Anyone know of possible apache settings/directives that affect how CGI
programs are invoked and/or how data is passed to them?
Location /cgi-bin # or similar
Limit POST
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
/Limit
/Location
But, you technically should get a 50x error with that.
Curt
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Re: [PHP] Re: POST superglobal is empty
yeah, Dan's code fails as well. here's my code:
---START SNIP SNIP---
?php
print('POSTpre');
print_r($_POST);
print('/prebrGETpre');
print_r($_GET);
print('/prebrREQUESTpre');
print_r($_REQUEST);
print('/pre');
?
hr
h3POST FORM/h3
form action=test.php method=POST
field one:
input type=text name=f_1
br
field two:
input type=text name=f_2
pbr
input name=Submit type=submit value=Post
input name=Cancel type=reset id=Cancel value=Cancel
/form
p
hr
h3GET FORM/h3
form action=test.php method=GET
field one:
input type=text name=f_1
br
field two:
input type=text name=f_2
pbr
input name=Submit type=submit value=Get
input name=Cancel type=reset id=Cancel value=Cancel
/form
---END SNIP SNIP---
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On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:56:52AM -0700, Dan Phiffer wrote:
Craig Donnelly wrote:
Show the code you are using...
I'm having the same problem. Here is a test script that prints Array()
regardless of what you enter and submit with the form:
-- test.php --
?php print_r($_POST); ?
form method=post action=test.php
input type=text name=foo/
input type=submit/
/form
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Re: [PHP] Re: POST superglobal is empty
I'm not sure if it is Apache or not. In fact, I wonder that it might be. However, I do not have any clue as to what it could be. We have 1 apache server running. It currently has php4.1.1 built as apache module. Code works fine for this build. In addition, I have php4.3.8 and php5.0.0 built as cgi. This code fails against both php4.3.8 and php5.0.0. Makes me think it has something to do with CGI in apache. Again, I have no clue what this might be. As I mentioned earlier, I've looked through all the bugs on php.net and other newsgroups, mailing lists, FAQ's. All the solutions posted in the past are not in effect on my server. I can find nothing wrong. I have also tried a copy of the 4.1.1 php.ini file for php5.0.0 with no luck. Hints, suggestions, pointers are all welcome. Apparently this is a common problem. -- Andy On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:20:00PM -0400, John W. Holmes wrote: From: Dan Phiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Davidson wrote: How about print_r($_REQUEST); That also fails to reflect posted data. $_GET is working as expected. There's nothing in PHP that would not let POST values get through. Are you sure this isn't a web server issue only allowing GET requests to pages that it serves? ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: POST superglobal is empty
I am certain php is configured as CGI, as per:
--SNIP SNIP--
$ ./php -v
PHP 5.0.0 (cgi) (built: Aug 3 2004 21:18:23) (DEBUG)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
--SNIP SNIP--
I'm using (for the time being) the default php.ini-dist from the
source directory. I know this has pretty lax configuration settings.
I didn't realize there are all those other versions (don't know where
they are) but I have defined the config-file-path and config-file on
the php configure line so it only looks in one place.
I'm going to continue looking at apache settings/configuration. I
can't find any suspect settings in the config file, but maybe
something was compiled in as a default.
Anyone know how to find out what options/settings the httpd binary has
compiled in?
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On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:00:24AM +, Curt Zirzow wrote:
* Thus wrote Dan Phiffer:
John W. Holmes wrote:
There's nothing in PHP that would not let POST values get through.
Well, I think there are means of disabling the registration of $_POST,
but that's not relevent to this problem.
why not?
Things that will prevent _POST from being filled out:
variable_order=GC ; lacks P
post_max_size=8 ; missing M at the end.
; or a small number disallowing it from
; being set.
the php binary your using isn't really a cgi binary but the CLI
version of php.
Ensure you are using the right php.ini, there are multiple
version's depending on what they are named php[-{sapi}].ini
nullUses builtin default settings
php.ini The default ini
php-cgi.ini for CGI applications
php-apache.ini For apache
php-cli.ini For CLI
...
Curt
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Re: [PHP] Re: POST superglobal is empty
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:53:17PM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:20:00 -0400, John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Dan Phiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Davidson wrote: How about print_r($_REQUEST); That also fails to reflect posted data. $_GET is working as expected. There's nothing in PHP that would not let POST values get through. Are you sure this isn't a web server issue only allowing GET requests to pages that it serves? Or possibly a proxy or firewall or your browser stopping it? I don't think any of these considering that the code works fine under the default php4.1.1 built as apache module. -- DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - The database at your fingertips http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder paperCrane --Justin Patrin-- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: POST superglobal is empty
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:55:16PM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:47:45 -0500, AJL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if it is Apache or not. In fact, I wonder that it might be. However, I do not have any clue as to what it could be. We have 1 apache server running. It currently has php4.1.1 built as apache module. Code works fine for this build. In addition, I have php4.3.8 and php5.0.0 built as cgi. This code fails against both php4.3.8 and php5.0.0. Makes me think it has something to do with CGI in apache. Again, I have no clue what this might be. As I mentioned earlier, I've looked through all the bugs on php.net and other newsgroups, mailing lists, FAQ's. All the solutions posted in the past are not in effect on my server. I can find nothing wrong. I have also tried a copy of the 4.1.1 php.ini file for php5.0.0 with no luck. Hints, suggestions, pointers are all welcome. Apparently this is a common problem. Sounds like Apache just isn't passing in POST data. Are you *sure* there's Apache directive for this? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking more and more, apache not passing it in or in a way that php is not understanding. Anyone know of possible apache settings/directives that affect how CGI programs are invoked and/or how data is passed to them? -- Andy P.S. *Why* do you have PHP 4.1.1 as the default? -- Andy On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:20:00PM -0400, John W. Holmes wrote: From: Dan Phiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Davidson wrote: How about print_r($_REQUEST); That also fails to reflect posted data. $_GET is working as expected. There's nothing in PHP that would not let POST values get through. Are you sure this isn't a web server issue only allowing GET requests to pages that it serves? ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - The database at your fingertips http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder paperCrane --Justin Patrin-- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: POST superglobal is empty
Yeah, I would expect a 50x response for a Deny from all. I tried adding the Limit directive to .htacces in both the cgi directory and the www directory, no luck: Limit POST Order Allow,Deny Allow from all /Limit I found this C code: ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/httpd/Unix/ncsa_httpd/cgi/cgi-src/post-query.c and compiled it and redirected my sample code (posted earlier) and I get the posted form variables fine. So maybe Apache CGI setup is working okay. The next logical step seems to be to see what php is getting on stdin and what environment variables are set. I know I can check the environment variables with $_ENV. Anyone know how I can get an exact copy of the data that was passed on stdin? -- Andy On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:20:23AM +, Curt Zirzow wrote: * Thus wrote AJL: On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:55:16PM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote: Sounds like Apache just isn't passing in POST data. Are you *sure* there's Apache directive for this? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking more and more, apache not passing it in or in a way that php is not understanding. Anyone know of possible apache settings/directives that affect how CGI programs are invoked and/or how data is passed to them? Location /cgi-bin # or similar Limit POST Order deny,allow Deny from all /Limit /Location But, you technically should get a 50x error with that. Curt -- First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No, sir. Our model is the trapezoid! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] HOWTO run PHP4 and PHP5 on Apache/Linux
I ran into so many problems trying to set this up that I thought I'd post my notes to hopefully save others some trouble. I found most of the information I needed at: http://rayh.co.uk/archives/13_PHP5__PHP4_side_by_side.html but the link doesn't seem to be working anymore, so here are my notes. Versions: PHP4.x module (already compiled and installed, this was straightforward in docs at www.php.net) PHP5.0.0 cgi RedHat linux 6.x Apache 1.3.22 PHP5 configure command: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/php/php5.0.0 \ --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php/php5.0.0/ \ --with-config-file=/usr/local/php/php5.0.0/php.ini \ --enable-force-cgi-redirect \ --disable-path-info-check \ --enable-safe-mode \ --disable-short-tags \ --with-regex=system \ --with-mysql \ --enable-debug \ --with-mcrypt \ --enable-versioning \ --disable-libxml NOTE: when I enabled '--enable-discard-path', pages would load blank. Don't use this unless you know what you are doing. I don't understand exactly what this does. NOTE: The options '--with-apxs' and '--with-apache' tell configure to build apache module and CLI. The absence of these tells it to build the CGI version. So DO NOT USE them if you want the CGI version. make make test make install Add the following to httpd.conf (must be in the generic server settings, NOT in a virtual host): ScriptAlias /cgi-php5/ /usr/local/php/php5.0.0/bin/ Directory /usr/local/php/php5.0.0/bin/ Options +ExecCGI Allow From All /Directory Foreach virtual host you want to use php5 on: Create a directory named 'cgi-php5' one level above the document root. This will most likely be in the same directory that has the cgi-bin directory in it. Foreach directory that you want to us php5 for: Add the following to .htaccess file (or virtual host inside a Directory container): Action php5-script /cgi-php5/php AddHandler php5-script .php Options +ExecCGI This is an excellent solution because: - You only have to restart apache once. After that, you can add .htaccess files to enable php5 interpretation whereever you want. - You can upgrade/downgrade php5 without touching apache. - You don't have clunky file extensions like .php5 or anything else that will be difficult to change later on down the road. PROBLEMS: So far, I cannot figure out why $_POST is empty when an html form is sent with method=post. GET works fine. In all my searching, I think it has something to do with how apache is setup; not with how php is configured. I've tried the default php-dist ini file, I've tried many different variations of php configure commands. None of them do the trick. PHP bug list has some posts from people with the same problem and then they said they found a problem in apache setup that fixed it. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
