mapping PHP5 to tomcat+phpservlet

[d_l]

I have PHP5 in my localhost (windows) environment .. for development.

And using phpservlet.war (in java) I have been able to run PHP5 in cgi mode on my local tomcat 5.0.29 server.

I use PHP on tomcat to run with some other tomcat webapps, so an Apache+PHP5 installation is not what I need (although I have that working too on a different port in my localhost).

...

I'm trying to mirror this localhost Tomcat+PHP5 setup on a hosted server which also has PHP installed .. but this is a linux hosted/shared server.

The WEB-INF\web.xml file for phpservlet says this

<init-param>
<param-name>php.executable</param-name>
<!--
Enter the full qualified path to your php executable here
e.g. c:/Programme/php/php.exe

For php5 on windows please use the php-cgi.exe!
-->

<param-value>c/php/php-cgi.exe</param-value>
</init-param>

...

but the server administrator gives the linux path to php as this

<param-value>/usr/local/bin/php</param-value></init-param>

...

This path does not work when phpservlet is deployed in tomcat. This is the error message when running phpinfo.php ..

type Status report
message Not Found: /phpservlet/phpinfo.php
description The requested resource (Not Found: /phpservlet/phpinfo.php) is not available.

My question is .. where/how to map to php.exe in a linux server?

Is there a php.exe in linux? (I am unfamiliar with linux installation).

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Comparing my PHP5 installation in my c:\php\ with the php files in linux server

These are the files I can see in the linux tomcat server ..

/usr/local/bin/pear 666 bytes
/usr/local/bin/php 8.28 Mbytes
/usr/local/bin/php-config 709 bytes
/usr/local/bin/phpextdist 593 bytes

and in

/usr/local/lib/php.ini 40.06 KB

....

but I am not sure what that php file is .. size 8.28 Mbytes .. with no extension.

My localhost windows installation in c:\php\ has

dev
ext
extras
PEAR
...
...

php.exe
php-cgi.exe

Where are the equivalents to the above windows files in linux?

What path to php should I use in phpservlet\WEB-INF\web.xml?

Thanks

[samudasu]

/usr/local/bin/php is eqaul to c:\php\php.exe. There is no .exe extension. Depending on the way php was installed on the linux server, /usr/local/bin/php could either be the "cli" or "cgi" executable. To find out type php -v at the command line.

[d_l]

Thanks for that clarification .. but since this is a remote server I cannot run the command line php -v (but I'll investigate) ..

so now that I have fixed on using that path ..

/usr/local/bin/php

can you suggest the cause of this error message when running phpservlet/phpinfo.php

type Status report

message Not Found: /phpservlet/phpinfo.php

description The requested resource (Not Found: /phpservlet/phpinfo.php) is not available.

phpinfo.php is definitely there to be seen ..