Don't Want Shebang Line

txupo

I have been stuck on this problem for some time now and couldn't find anything here or with a google search.

I am on Windows 98, using PHP 4.2.3, and apache 1.3 (I was using apache 2.0.36 but decided to switch when I ran into the following problem. I read that apache 2 doesn't work well with Windows 98)

Basically, I want to be rid of the shebang line on all of my .php and .html files. This is the line that looks like "#! C:/php/php-4.2.3-Win32/php.exe"

I have tried running php on apache usind the dll and php.exe, and I can get both ways to work if I include the shebang line.

I know that there is a way to get around this.

Appreciate any ideas here

Thanks

tsinka

Hi,

if you use the dll version of php the use of the shebang line shouldn't be neccessary. If you use sapi module (php4apache2.dll) make sure to remove the

ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/" and
Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe"

lines so you just have the

LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache.dll
AddModule mod_php4.c
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

directives in your httpd.conf. Doing so should ensure that your php scripts will be parsed even without the shebang line.

txupo

Hello

Thanks for the response. I tried your suggestion and unfortuneately it didn't work. This is what I did...

LoadModule php4_module c:/php/php-4.2.3-Win32/sapi/php4apache.dll

AddModule mod_php4.c

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

I also made sure to comment out the lines that you said to remove. When I run Apache in a counsole I get the following message...

Apache/1.3.27 (Win32) PHP/4.2.3 running...

And then I can run .php scripts that contain the shebang line but as soon as I remove it I get a "500 Internal Server Error"

My error log is just packed with this same message over and over again.

[Sat May 10 18:00:55 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] c:/program files/apache group/apache/cgi-bin/calc.php is not executable; ensure interpreted scripts have "#!" first line
[Sat May 10 18:00:55 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] couldn't spawn child process: c:/program files/apache group/apache/cgi-bin/calc.php

I have checked the syntax of my httpd.conf file using the test that comes with Apache and it tells me that the syntax is "OK".

I am really at a loss as to why this doesn't work. Would love to hear more suggestions as to how to fix this. At some point I am going to be trying to use PostNuke and I don't think that it is going to work if I need the shebang line in every file that I want to execute.

I know that there is a way around this problem.

Thanks
Robert

tsinka

Ok,

from the log entry I see that your php scripts might be in the cgi-bin directory of your apache server. Please move them to the htdocs directory and all should work fine 🙂

As long as you copy your php scripts to the cgi-bin directory apache tries to execute them as cgi-scripts every time. If you copy them to the htdocs it should work with e.g.

http://localhost/calc.php

Thomas

txupo

I can't believe that was all it was. I had done some Perl CGI scripting before with apache and I just put all scripts into the cgi-bin directory. Moving the files into the htdocs directory solved the problem.

If you don't mind, one more question. Say I wanted to put my scripts outside of Apache alltogether. In something like "c:\website". I know how to use the scriptAlias to do this but I am back at the same problem with the shebang line being needed.

In other words, how does one eliminate the shebang line outside of the htdocs directory.

Thanks for helping me with my original problem. I can't believe I got stuck on that for so long.

tsinka

Hi,

the simplest way is to use Alias instead of ScriptAlias. Using Alias you can let point a virtual directory to a real directory, e.g.

Alias /website/ "c:\website"

http://localhost/website/ would then call scripts in the c:\website directory.

If you want to host more than one domain you can use the VirtualHost directive.

You can set up different virtual hosts pointing to different document root directories.

I use different virtual hosts on my windows system for e.g. phpMyAdmin, test sites and so on each of them using a different document root directory.