The same file for mod_php AND cgi php

Anon

I wonder if there's any way we can have the same file works for CGI PHP and mod_php. That is, can mod_php be set to ignore the she-bang (#!/usr/bin/php) line?

[deleted]

no.

:-)

But you may be able to define a handler in apache to tell it to use PHP for .php files

Anon

Isn't that what we always do?

Anyway, I think a little hacking to the PHP source code should do it :-)

thimble

I think what vincent says is right. Try Webadmin, it's easy to set up your apache.

Greetingz,

kparker

Just enable # as a comment (the same place that // is recognized) in mod_php and you're home free.

Anon

I'm sorry, perhaps I'm not expressing the original question right.

I have this file:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php echo "Hi!" ?>

Can this same file behave the same (produce the same output) under mod_php and PHP CGI.

Anon

But the first line is outside php.

kparker

But not when you're loading the file via mod_php--or am I misunderstanding something?

Anon

If I use mod_php, the first line is printed as is '#!/usr/bin/php' to the browser, since it is in HTML mode. The PHP part only starts after <?php ...

[deleted]

Like I said, you may get away with it if you can get your webserver to serve *.php files in the cgi-bin directory through the php binary by default.
You'll have to make apache do what the #! line is doing now.

Something else for you to figure out: files in the document root are sent as documents, files in the cgi-bin directory are parsed/executed.
If you want to use the same file for two methods, how are you going to get the webserver to "sometimes" run the file as cgi, and "sometimes" as a php page?

Anon

Here's my situation. I have a host who only provides PHP support as a binary (so I have to add #!/usr/bin/php line to all my php files). I'd like to develop files using mod_php (since my box is pretty slow as hell, btw). What I wonder is can I get mod_php at my box ignore the #!/usr/bin/php line? It would be wonderful if it can, but if not, I can always go back to /usr/bin/php. Could you understand this?

kparker

Another solution is to write/test them as mod_php files, then write a simple utility to prepend the required bang line before uploading them to the web host.

Anon

I know the problem has probably been solved one way or another, but am just wondering why nobody mentioned a very simple way to have exactly the same files for mod_php and cgi_php (or I'm missing something).

Say your file1.php, file2.php, ..., are all in a /www/php/ directory which is not your cgi directory. In your cgi directory put the following files:

file1.php:
#!/usr/local/bin/php
<? chdir("/www/php");
include "file1.php";
?>

file2.php:
#!/usr/local/bin/php
<? chdir("/www/php");
include "file2.php";
?>

etc.

Then, http://www.your.domain/cgi-bin/file1.php means using cgi_php to display the same file as http://www.your.domain/php/file1.php using mod_php. Moreover, by means of suexec or cgiwrap you may even change the user under which the web server runs, nobody for mod_php and somebody else for cgi.

Cheers,
Jack