Getting the apache config - Diagnosis Welcome

greentiger

How can I recover an online server's apache config using code?
Last summer, I finished a website that worked on the company's offline WAMP server as well as my offline WAMP and LAMP servers. This site also works on an online server of mine.

I am not allowed access to the company's online server and any updates I make are sent to the senior programmer for implementation. His specialty is C, and non-web languages. To test code changes now takes two-weeks to a month.

Originally. their server gave 500 errors on half the pages, suggesting that my code conflicted with their configuration. Though the .htaccess files were supported by the offline servers answer my online one, I reccommended removing them. Now the site works, except for parts that inherit one of my php classes, but I need to be able to test my changes in real-time, on my servers. To do that. I need to know their server config.

Suggestions? Diagnosis?
Thank you in advance.

bradgrafelman

If this is part of your job, then tell the senior programmer to send you a copy of the Apache httpd.conf file, e.g. provide you with the materials needed to do your job.

I mean sure, it's likely that you could write a PHP script that will find and read the httpd.conf file on the server and then either output it, mail it, etc., but since this script would have to go through this senior programmer guy anyway... well there's no point in beating around the bush like that - tell him what you need and clarify that it's not an option - it's a necessity.

greentiger

MIght it be faster to request it from the company they rent the server from? They are hpsted on CanadianWebHosting, so it is shared server.

I already mentioned I could do my job easier if I had the apache config. Maybe if I post an altered version of the code, someone might recognise a particular function I used as 'occasionally sketchy on strict servers'?

Since it only seems to be pages that inherit from a particular class, I was thinking the code was probably in that class.

bradgrafelman

Well, if removing the .htaccess files worked, and these files used PHP directives such as php_flag and whatnot, then it sounds like they don't have PHP installed as an ISAPI module but rather a CGI binary.

As for your scripts not working... did you ensure that you at least have the same version of PHP installed on your development server regardless of the config?

If you've narrowed it down to a certain script, you can feel free to post it - attach it to your post as a .txt file if it's of significant size. It's likely that you're using functions from a certain extension that they simply don't have enabled. Can you perhaps get a phpinfo() printout from their server?

greentiger

Thank you for all your help so far. I've asked the Senior Programmer to send me a copy of the phpinfo() , or at least to upload a php file with that script in there , so I should have that data shortly.

I'm attaching the code here that malfunctions, and though the form class in forms.php does inherit from the form class in form.php, cthe calc class in the calc.php file also does and calc.php and all the fscripts that extend it are functional (by now, you're getting to know that I knew Java before PHP).

Below is the form class that only malfunctions on their corporate webserver. Before I get anybody telling me that self-balancing Binary Search Trees and stacks are much better than arrays (because I know that), let me say that I was working with some very strict UML definitions and a mySQL database adapted from PHPNuke.

http://adam.reislunde.com/forms.txt