php not being compiled by browser

[Dutch Mafia-boy.]

I followed this installation tutorial :

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2000/11/17/php_admin.html

However, php still isn't being loaded (or working). I
am using RedHat 9. Whenever I go to load a .php page
in my webroot, all i get is plain text on my browser
screen....php isn't being compiled bynthe browser.

Here's what I did:

I downloaded the tarball - php-4.3.4
./configure --with-httpd --with-mysql
make
make install

suggestions?

Thanks.

Adrian

[sharth]

probably missing a few lines in your apache configuration... if that doesn't help, please post you apache httpd.conf.

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

LoadModule php4_module /location/of/this/file/libphp4.so

[andycrofts]

(red hat)
in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, you've an AddType directive.
Just add the line as below (cut 'n' paste of my conf file)
That should do it. (well, that's how I do it!)
-Cheers
-Andy


#
# AddType allows you to add to or override the MIME configuration
# file mime.types for specific file types.
#
AddType application/x-tar .tgz
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

(Sharth! That'll teach me to have a smoke while I'm thinking about the answer!)

[Dutch Mafia-boy.]

I also copied the php.ini.dist from the php-4.3.4 directory (install directory where I compiled from - which is located in my downloads folder - /downloads) to /etc, renamed the existing php.ini - php.ini.old and renamed php.ini-dist to php.ini

Do you want the php.ini also??

[Dutch Mafia-boy.]

Ever since I added those "AddModule" lines - whenever i try to open up a .php file under my webroot - a dialogue box comes up asking me if I want to Open or Save.....

probably missing a few lines in your apache configuration... if that doesn't help, please post you apache httpd.conf.

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

LoadModule php4_module /location/of/this/file/libphp4.so

I tried searchimg my system for libphp4.so - but it couldn't find it....

Perhaps I should say that I completely un-installed the php rpm that came with RedHat 9 (php-4.2.2-17.2.i386) and installed the new one completely from source - php-4.3.4. I kinda think the libphp4.so was apart of the previous rpm package - which would explain it not being found on my system - so I should at least figure out how to install that - or how to install it from a source install...

[Dutch Mafia-boy.]

Ever since I added those "AddModule" lines - whenever i try to open up a .php file under my webroot - a dialogue box comes up asking me if I want to Open or Save.....

probably missing a few lines in your apache configuration... if that doesn't help, please post you apache httpd.conf.

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

LoadModule php4_module /location/of/this/file/libphp4.so

I tried searchimg my system for libphp4.so - but it couldn't find it....

Perhaps I should say that I completely un-installed the php rpm that came with RedHat 9 (php-4.2.2-17.2.i386) and installed the new one completely from source - php-4.3.4. I kinda think the libphp4.so was apart of the previous rpm package - which would explain it not being found on my system - so I should at least figure out how to install that - or how to install it from a source install...

[sharth]

well, you just need to get the libphp4 working...

[theN]

Originally posted by Dutch Mafia-boy.
I tried searchimg my system for libphp4.so - but it couldn't find it....Are you using RPMs of Apache and MySQL?

Conventionally libphp4.so is placed in the modules sub-directory of Apache.

BTW, the PHP manual suggests this for configure
./configure --with-mysql=path/to/mysql. Please read the manual for relevant info.

regards
akr

[j79zlr]

This might be a silly question, but did you restart apache after modifying it?

# killall httpd
# httpd

[Dutch Mafia-boy.]

Thanks for all your help!

I didn't really figure out my problem .......it most likely had something to do with libphp4.so not being present. I also read a lot on the web about its best to have tarballs used with tarballs source instead of source apps mixed with rpms.....apache-rpm and php-tarball.

I unistalled Apache 2.0 - installed Apache 1.3 (source) and compiled in all the modules (OpennSSL, and the other one I can't remember to have dynamic support for Apache (mod_ssl).....so when I want to upgrade the next version of PHP, I can compile it dynamically - its called DSO support I think and the config file is called - apxs - most of you already probaly know this....I'm just babbling...

Anyways, I compiled PHP successfully because of DSO support....and all is working fine.