shebang line showing in browser

NancyHT

I'm using PHP 4 with Apache 2 installed on WIN 2K using PHP Home Edition 2. I'm working on a project which requires me to use a shebang line at the top of each file on the production server (PHP is run as a cgi script on the other host) but for local testing I do not need the shebang. The line is showing up on my pages in the browser at the top of each page when I test locally (not on the production server.) This interferes with any scripts which work "in the background" and send a header request to show another page (I get an error saying headers were already sent) I fixed this error by turning output buffering on in PHP.ini but would rather not use this kludge.

In a previous installation of PHP Home (earlier version) on this computer this line of code wasn't appearing in the browser but now I can't remember if I did anything to get rid of it. Is this something I need to do in PHP.ini or Apache's httpd.conf? I did try "AddHandler cgi-script .php" but then I got an error saying I was not authorized to view the page when attempting to view a .php script in the browser.

Any ideas?

weekender

i take it by a shebang line you mean you are adding a file to the top of the file, like when you use auto_prepend_file in php.ini

think i have the same issue - i use my laptop for production and a remote host for development - and they obviously use different variables, mysql logins etc

so what i do in my vars file is this

switch($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']) {
	case "localhost" :
		//do local stuff here
	break;
	case "www.yourdomain.co.uk" :
		//do remote stuff here
	break;
}

maybe you could use the same thing so that your shebang line is only shown on one server, not the other...

NancyHT

No, what I mean by a shebang is this:

#!/usr/local/php/bin/php

at the top of the file, before the <?php tag - just like the shebang in PERL...

There is no VARS file or whatever else it was you mentioned.