Netscape Enterpise Server 3.X and 4.X and PHP

[Anon]

I'm trying to configure/setup PHP4 to work with Netscape Enterpise Server 3.X and 4.X. Does anyone have any ideas on what steps to take to properly set PHP up on NES? Also, do you know of any resources available on the net that can help with a PHP install for NES? Thanks.

[Anon]

You should be able to get a pretty good start by looking at the nsapi-readme.txt file included with PHP. It's fairly accurate. Looking at a couple of bug reports at bugs.php.net (searching for iplanet), I managed to get it all compiled correctly on SuSE Linux. I've yet to get iPlanet to parse any PHP scripts, however, including just phpinfo(). If you get any further than this, please let me know.

[danswebs]

I too am trying to get PHP4 on a NES 4.1. I have followed instructions for a NES 3.x but all that got me was the system attempting to download the .php files when they are loaded. Does anyone else have any ideas or comments concerning this.

I swear that if I can figure this out I will write a short article and post it all over the internet so people will not have the same problems.

[Anon]

Check this URL out:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.netscape-enterprise.php

[danswebs]

The way that the obj.conf reads in the installation instructions is very different than the obj.conf on my server. The way that I have heard is the best way to handle the NES is to handle php as an executable like cgi-bin.

The URL's that I found most helpful were:
1. http://www.wrox.com/consumer/errata/2963/php_nes.htm
2. http://benoit.noss.free.fr/php/install-php.html

However, these instructions did not fix the problems tha I am having. Any other ideas out there?

[Anon]

Dan,
Below are the steps I took to get PHP working with iPlanet 4.X . This was on Solaris 2.6. Hope this helps.

1. Add "#define XP_UNIX 1" in /path_to_netscape_homedir/plugins/include/nsapi.h
   to successfully compile.

2. Use the following options with the configure script when compiling PHP (at least these are the options I used. You decide what is best for your environment):

--enable-sigchild Enable PHP's own SIGCHLD handler.
--enable-libgcc Enable explicitly linking against libgcc
--enable-discard-path
--enable-magic-quotes
--enable-track-vars
--with-openssl Include OpenSSL support in SNMP.
--with-ldap[=DIR] Include LDAP support. DIR is the LDAP base install directory, defaults to /usr/local/ldap
--with-java[=DIR] DIR is the base install directory for the JDK.
--with-oracle[=DIR] Include Oracle-oci7 support. Default DIR is ORACLE_HOME.
--with-oci8[=DIR] Include Oracle-oci8 support. Default DIR is ORACLE_HOME.
--enable-trans-sid Enable transparent session id propagation
--enable-memory-limit Compile with memory limit support.
--enable-versioning Export only required symbols.
--enable-sysvshm Enable the System V shared memory support
--enable-sysvsem Enable System V semaphore support.
--with-nsapi=/the_path/to/my/netscape/server/root

3. Add the following line to mime.types

type=magnus-internal/x-httpd-php exts=php,php3,php4

4. Add the following to the obj.conf. Note, place following two lines after mime types init;
   Init fn="load-modules" funcs="php4_init,php4_close,php4_execute,php4_auth_trans" shlib="/<path-to-netscape-server>/bin/libphp4.so"
   
   

   Init fn=php4_init errorString="Failed to initialize PHP!"

<Object name="default">
.
.
.
.#NOTE this next line should happen after all 'ObjectType' and before all 'AddLog' lines
Service fn="php4_execute" type="magnus-internal/x-httpd-php"
.
.
</Object>

<Object name="x-httpd-php">
ObjectType fn="force-type" type="magnus-internal/x-httpd-php"

Service fn=php4_execute
</Object>

5. Add the following Authentication configuration to the obj.conf.
   PHP authentication cannot be used with any other authentication.
   
   ALL AUTHENTICATION IS PASSED TO YOUR PHP SCRIPT. To configure PHP
   Authentication for the entire server, add the following line:

<Object name="default">
AuthTrans fn=php4_auth_trans
.
.
.
.
</Object>

To use PHP Authentication on a single directory, add the following:

<Object ppath="d:\path\to\authenticated\dir*">
AuthTrans fn=php4_auth_trans
</Object>