cool, well I did that, and got php to run, and when I run it from the commandline
i.e. php < inputfile it works fine.
when I put this in my apache2 config file
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php"
ScriptAlias /php/ "/usr/local/php/bin/"
it always comes back with
[error] [client 192.168.16.2] Premature end of script headers: php
when it was missing a library, it would put the usual missing unresolved whatever in the log also, but now nothing, it just says nothing happens.
Does this ring a bell at all?
Thanks for your help.