Cannot get php to work in tiger

[b8edbreth]

I just updated to 10.4 from 10.3. In 10.3 php worked perfectly for me and I was using the machine as a little test bed for my sites. Now when I go to a php page I just get raw html output. I tried enabling the mod_php4 in the httpd.conf file but afterward going to a php page resulted in me being told that the page was and application and had to be downloaded. So I got the version of php and founmd to my surprise that even though I'd built and installed php 5 on panther, it was php 4 something (Don't remember the exact version.) tried downloading 5 again and building and installing. Well I don't know where tiger gets it's php from but it isn't the correct place. after the build and install it's still 4. cannot update apache either. Tried doing a download and install of the newest apache and well that did nothing. Help please <yipe>. I found an article here that showed how (at one time) to fix this but I tried it and it did not work, I still only get raw html in the browser window when I go to a php page on localhost. I would be eternally grateful to any one that can help me fix this... or better yet, tell me where the php and httpd files tiger uses are so I can just simlink them to the ones I built. (The search tool no longer searches in all of the directories on the drive, only the visible ones.)
Thanks again,
April.

[ngcomputing]

Originally Posted by b8edbreth

tell me where the php and httpd files tiger uses are so I can just simlink them to the ones I built. (The search tool no longer searches in all of the directories on the drive, only the visible ones.)
Thanks again,
April.

Php is in /usr/lib/php and /usr/bin/php

drop to a bash shell and do a $ locate php

apache config file should be in

/etc/httpd/

Sounds like the problem is in the httpd.conf file you might need to enable php in there. By default, your document root is set to /Sites/ --- I always change mine to match my server, for instance, I run hsphere on my web server so on my local machine my files are in :

/hsphere/local/home/accountname1/accountname1.com/
/hsphere/local/home/accountname2/accountname2.com/


Thus, if I have to include an absolute path to an include file, say in the root, I don't have to keep changing the path in my scripts before I do the actual upload from my local mac testing server to my actual online web servers.

Hope this helps.

ngcomputing.com

[b8edbreth]

Well those are all the correct locations for the php and apache files from panther or any linux system I've run. And I did enable php in the httpd.conf but still I just get raw html in the browser window and the versions I built with ./configure ; make ; make install are not the ones being used by tiger. So I guess I'm asking where are the apache and php binaries that Tiger uses? What I want to do is delete them (or perhaps just rename them httpd.old and php.old) and use a terminal to make symbolic links to the correct ones. Meaning the ones that regular n*x systems would use.

Originally Posted by ngcomputing

Php is in /usr/lib/php and /usr/bin/php

drop to a bash shell and do a $ locate php

apache config file should be in

/etc/httpd/

Sounds like the problem is in the httpd.conf file you might need to enable php in there. By default, your document root is set to /Sites/ --- I always change mine to match my server, for instance, I run hsphere on my web server so on my local machine my files are in :

/hsphere/local/home/accountname1/accountname1.com/
/hsphere/local/home/accountname2/accountname2.com/


Thus, if I have to include an absolute path to an include file, say in the root, I don't have to keep changing the path in my scripts before I do the actual upload from my local mac testing server to my actual online web servers.

Hope this helps.

ngcomputing.com

[ngcomputing]

You might need to log in as root and do a locate. Also, it sounds simple, but remember to stop then restart personal web sharing after you make any changes to the .conf files.

[b8edbreth]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but Im still not having any luck.Has any one else been able to get php to work in Tiger?

[PCheese]

sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

I then uncommented the LoadModule and AddModule lines that had to do with php, then sudo apachectl restart.

Worked flawlessly.

[b8edbreth]

Originally Posted by PCheese

sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

I then uncommented the LoadModule and AddModule lines that had to do with php, then sudo apachectl restart.

Worked flawlessly.

Ok, I figured it out... Let me reiterate just in case some one else is reading and goes through the same thing.
I was using Panther and had downloaded and built from source php 5.0.4 and apache 2.0.39 if I'm not wrong. So in panther I was pretty close to current. I bought Tiger and installed, just doing an upgrade install. PHP and Apache broke. I did all the httpd.conf stuff and it did not work. I tried redownloading and building php and apache. it did not work.
Last night I did what I REALLY didn't want to do. I did an archive and install.
I uncommented the php related lines in httpd.conf. and TaDah! it works.

April.

[larry98765]

I had the same problem, but uncommenting the PHP-related lines in httpd.conf then restarting Apache did the trick.