[Resolved] Installation Frustration

kenhess

I am installing apache 1.3.x and php 4.3.2 from source...and my questions are:
Which one gets compiled and installed first?
What switches do you really use?
And why, when I go to a php page, my browser wants to open or save it?

ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

And I have read the install stuff at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.apache.php

and it still doesn't work and I went right down the list of things to do.

kfickert

your not the only one. I'm still having issues installing it from the OpenBSD ports tree package because mod_php4 doesn't seem to exist yet in the 3.3 ports tree.

tsinka

Hi,

it depends a little bit on how you want to install php (static into apache or as module). If you want php to be compiled as shared module you must compile and install apache with dso support prior to compiling php.

What did you do so far (configure options, compilation order, configuration of your httpd.conf etc.)

Which os/distribution do you use ?

Thomas

kenhess

RedHat 9

the instructions I went by says to compile apache first with modules.

tsinka

That's right.
If you want to install php as shared module (libphp4.so) you have to compile and install apache with dso support enabled first. After that compile php with the configure switches you want including --with-apxs=/path/to/apxs (including the apxs binary). After that you have to add the following lines to your httpd.conf:

LoadModule php4_module /path/to/libphp4/libphp4.so
(at the end of the LoadModule block)

AddModule mod_php4.c
(at the end of the AddModule block)

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
(somewhere below the AddModule block)

Make sure that the apache init script points to your newly installed apache server or execute /path/to/new/apache/bin/apachectl start to test your newly installed apache.