[Techtalk] RedHat 8, Apache and PHP

Fri Feb 28 10:15:05 EST 2003

Beth Johnson wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm trying to get PHP working with Apache; does anyone have these
> working together on Psyche?

I think you missed mod_php.

If you are just using php, you don't need mod_perl, mod_python.
If you have ssl  mod_ssl is fine.

If you are doing good old php,
you only need php, you don't need the rest of the php modules
> 
> For Apache this is what I have installed via rpm:
> 
> httpd-2.0.40-11
> httpd-manual-2.0.40-11
> mod_perl-1.99_05-3
> mod_python-3.0.0-10
> mod_ssl-2.0.40-11
> 
> For PHP this is what I have installed via rpm:
> 
> php-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-manual-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-mysql-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-odbc-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-snmp-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-pgsql-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-ldap-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-imap-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-dbg-server-2.10pl3-6
> php-dbg-client-2.10-6
> php-dbg-base-2.10-4
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I've checked for this line in my httpd.conf:
> 
> #
> # Load config files from the config directory "/etc/httpd/conf.d".
> #
> Include conf.d/*.conf
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Checked that these lines are in /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf:
> 
> LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
> 
> #
> # Cause the PHP interpreter handle files with a .php extension.
> #
> <Files *.php>
>     SetOutputFilter PHP
>     SetInputFilter PHP
>     LimitRequestBody 524288
> </Files>
> 
> #
> # Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory
> # indexes.
> #
> DirectoryIndex index.php
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I've restarted the server.
> 
> I've created the following document, set 777 for now, in /var/www/html
> 
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Testing PHP</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <h1>Testing PHP</h1>
> <p>If you have php working, you'll get a greeting;</p>
> <?php print "Hello world!"; ?>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> When I pull it up the html renders fine, but the php doesn't execute.
> 
> I've tried downgrading httpd to Apache-1.3.27, but that leads to
> dependency hell.  I've also looked at building from source, but the
> documentation assumes that you know a lot about what is going on, and
> that's not me!
> 
> Any help here?
> 
> regards,
> Beth
> 0 for 2 in stuff she wanted to get done on her box this week. :-(
> 