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  From: Tarek Heiland <tarek@bakas.com.au>
  To  : md@picknowl.com.au <md@picknowl.com.au>
        Tim Riley <tr@rebel.net.au>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 18:40:21 +1030

RE: Apache + PHP4

PHP4 + apache works fine under Redhat (6.x).

httpd.conf lines for PHP4 if correctly installed as per PHP4 instructions
are:

  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
  AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

you may also find it useful to add

DirectoryIndex index.php 

or similar to allow php pages to become default.

I would suggest downloading the latest apache and both the latest and
penultimate PHP4 versions. Then follow the php4 install instructions in the
readme EXACTLY. If you do you woudln't be having the prob's. There is in
fact a comment about the .so file you are mentioning.

TRICK: if you plan on ever using both the CGI and the module version of
php4. (I.e. for CGI-handler or as I sometimes do as a crude and dirty script
language) install the earlier version of php4 completely first as both
module and standalone. Then repeat with the latest version over the top.
This seems to reliably fix an intermittent file not found issue which can
bugger you up for hours and to which their appears to be no good solution
that I have found after days trawling the web.

As to userdir's - compile apache with suexec - this allows you to run
scripts/pages as other users instead of your public web user. This can help
having to bastardise permissions to have things work. Note that there are
very stringent permission requirements that MUST be met before suexec will
work. (Note however if you ever have to run scripts that require uid's <
suexec cutoff you will need to then utilise sudo to break this limitation,
although you can seriously compromise security doing this). 

Hope this helps

Tarek

-----Original Message-----
From: MRD [mailto:md@picknowl.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, 24 December 2000 13:20 
To: Tim Riley; linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
Subject: RE: Apache + PHP4




-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Riley [mailto:tr@rebel.net.au]
Sent: Saturday, 23 December 2000 8:44 PM
To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
Subject: Apache + PHP4

Hi again folks, (* what about adaptive?))?



I have run into a some problems lately, trying to configure Apache.  They
are listed below, and if anyone could shed some light on them for me, it
would be much appreciated :)

The system is Conectiva 6.0, which (afaik) goes about things in a Red Hat
sort of manner.

1) httpd.conf has the UserDir module loaded and added, and the UserDir is
specified as www.  However, I could not initially view any of the files on
my $HOME/www.  Some people in #linuxhelp suggested that it is neccessary
in Red hat to chmod 0755 $HOME and $HOME/www for this to work.  It did,
but it seems like a workaround, as now any user can view the contents of
my entire home directory - is there a more elegant way to a chieve a
working userdir setup?

2) I have the php4 and mod_php4 packages installed on this machine.
httpd.conf has this line:
LoadModule php4_module        modules/libphp4.so

which was originally commented out.  However, in the AddModule section,
there is no commented line to add libphp4..c (using a .c in place of the
.so of the module file seems to be the done thing.).  There is an
#AddModule mod_php4.c line, but I have no mod_php4.so in the modules/
directory.  Putting an AddModule libphp4.c results in this error upon
starting httpd:

Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 328 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Cannot add module via name 'libphp4.c': not in list of loaded modules

Whenever I try to access a PHP script (that was previous working in
Slackware), I receive a "this file is of type application/x-http-php... do
you want to view or save to disk" so it musn't be being parsed by the
server (which is pretty obvious, since the module isn't being added or
loaded or sometihng).

Does anyone know how to load or add the php module correctly?  Has anyone
done it on a Red Hat box?

Thankyou very much for your help.

Cheers,

Tim Riley

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