PHP & Apache--Method GET not allowed?!!

Anon

As soon as I add to httpd.conf the line:
AddModule mod_php3.c

I get:
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Method Not Allowed
The requested method GET is not allowed for the URL /

Apache/1.3.12 Server at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Port 8080
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Otherwise, Apache is installed and running fine. With PHP disabled, I can browse the site fine.

Please help--how do I get PHP enabled?

As may be evident from the above, this is PHP3 with Apache1.3.12, and it happens to be running on port 8080 on Irix 6.5.3m

One possibly non-trivial note is that attempting to access some file in the root directory (say "foo.php3") works fine normally (without the PHP code executing, of course) but once I attempt to do AddModule attempting to access files gives me a 404, almost as though adding the module changed my document root to something which is unreadable.

httpd.conf and php.ini files available on request. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

Anon

You've skipped a step in the INSTALL file I think about a handler for php, looks like:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

and tells apache to run .php files under php

Or is this supposed to be handled by the make install script now?

Anon

It may be that you build and compiled, and installed php as someone other than root, in which case it could happen that you didnt' have permission to edit the httpd.conf file at the time of running make install, in which case, you'll have to go back later and either run make install again (it shouldn't overwrite your php.ini file) or just edit the httpd.conf file, it has the line I pointed out in it from the factory, just commented out.

Anon

Sorry, I didn't mention that in the message. PHP was installed by an automated installer which automagically modified my httpd.conf file in what seems to be the appropriate manner, including LoadModule, AddModule, and 2 lines of AddType.

And I don't really understand how a misconfiguration of PHP (but with a valid httpd.conf file) would mess up serving of the base index.html file in the directory.

Anon

Try commenting out all the php lines in httpd.conf and see if index.html starts working again. If not, then there's something wrong with the httpd.conf file or apache has somehow gotten corrupted or some other equally strange and uncommon problem exists.

Anon

It does work again when I remove the 4 PHP lines (and specifically when I remove the AddModule line mentioned in the previous post).

It's that one directive which is breaking all of Apache's web serving.

Any ideas?