Disabling PHP as CGI

VideoDude

I've just learned that an open source package that I'm trying to install won't run as long as PHP is configured to run as a CGI. Apparently that's how my server is configured. A phpinfo() returns the value "CGI/1.1" next to the variable "_SERVER["GATEWAY_INTERFACE"]".

My questions are...
1. How can this be disabled?
2. Could disabling this cause unforeseen problems (for instance I'm running a couple of other PHP programs like phpBB and osCommerce on my server and I don't know how/if they're dependent on PHP as a CGI)?

jimson

To : VideoDude
ok, i copy this from php manual which i think can solve your problem, make sure you got one. go to download at www.php.net

While setting up the server and PHP on your own, you have two choices for the method of connecting PHP to the server. For many servers PHP has a direct module interface (also called SAPI). These servers include Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Netscape and iPlanet servers. Many other servers have support for ISAPI, the Microsoft module interface (OmniHTTPd for example). If PHP has no module support for your web server, you can always use it as a CGI processor. This means you set up your server to use the command line executable of PHP (php.exe on Windows) to process all PHP file requests on the server.