PHP4 on Apache & Red Hat 6.2

[Anon]

I've compiled PHP4 as a DSO for apache (latest version) on Red Hat 6.2. Everything has apparently built fine, and the Apache server starts fine, and is serving everything else except PHP. Whenever I it tries to serve a PHP doc, I get the following in the Apache Error Log:

[Mon Aug 28 21:34:48 2000] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of /home/httpd/phpPgAdmin/index.php failed
[Mon Aug 28 21:34:48 2000] [error] [client 10.10.100.200] Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/phpPgAdmin/index.php

Any Ideas anyone? I did see some other messages in the archives saying that the script isn't returning any header, but I haven't seen anything regarding the (8) Exec format error.

I built using ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs \
--with-config-file=/etc/httpd \
--with-pgsql=/usr/lib/pgsql

Thanks!

[Anon]

Redhat 6.2 is so tricky,
i have successfully installed PHP4 with Apache...
the following is only my experience,

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i didn't select PHP3 while i was installing RedHat 6.2
after installation of OS,
uncompressed php4 (my version is php-4.0.1pl2.tar.gz)
1.tar -zxvf php-4.0.1pl2.tar.gz
2.cd php-4.0.1pl2
3 ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mysql
(notee: apxs is in /usr/bin/ as default, tricky)you may add your configuration
options
4.make
5.make install
OK...it seems you are sucessful, but if your reboot your system
you will get HTTPD failed to start...
after installation of PHP4, you need to do:
goto-->/etc/httpd/conf-->edit the file called-->httpd.conf
first goto Line#873 (or the line near that line), find one line
called (LoadModule lib/apache/libphp4.so
because Redhat's default Apache modules' directory is different
you need to find absolute pass of your Apache Module directory
and change lib/apache/lib.so instead of the correct path,
otherwise Apache can't load that module therefore HTTPd can't
load properly
and also don't forget to add a new in your httpd.conf file
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

^conclusion: installation in redhat 6.2 is a little tricky, but if you make sure
all the necessary directories (path), and change it to the correct path
you will get a work Apache with PHP
these include:
1.path of your apache modules
2.path of apxs (default, it should be in /usr/sbin/apxs)

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all above is only my personal opinion,
i have dealt with that for so many times,

[Anon]

php4 isn't that hard on redhat 6.2 + apache. I did it over the weekend, download the php-4.0.1pl2-7.src.rpm from redhat's rawhide directories. Install the src rpm, edit the php.spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ and change the document root variable from /var/www/html to /home/httpd/html. I changed the mysql requirements to use the MySQL rpms from mysql.com. And then rpm -ba php.spec. I now have php4 rpms for redhat 6.2. I had to go thru the httpd.conf file and make the appropriate changes to enable php4. But, otherwise it was fine. I'm sure a little tweaking to the php.spec file could take care of that problem. The other option is listed above, compile from a tarball and make sure you get all the directories set right. Using rpms makes more sense for me, i've got 5 machines to keep in sync with the same versions.

[Anon]

this is quite a good way,
i will try it next time
;-=)