Apache not parsing PHP4

paco36 · 07-15-2005, 01:55 AM

Hello,
I am running Gentoo with Apache2 and PHP4. I have been toying around with this for about two days now trying to get this to work correctly, but nothing seems to work. My apache server is up and running. I can go to standard HTML pages and they load fine. I have a php test page which just consists of:

Code:

<html>
<body>
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
</body>
</html>

When I load that up it doesn't parse the PHP... just displays the PHP code when I view the source. I have been through several posts on LinuxQuestions and a few Wikis and can't get anywhere. I emerged php and php_mod and it is in the apache module directory. I have also added LoadModule php4_module extramodules/libphp4.so to my apache2.conf but it still doesn't seem to be working. I have restarted several times as well.

What I don't understand is that it is obviously not parsing the PHP so I would assume that Apache doesn't realize that PHP is installed however when I cause a 404 or any other sort of server error apache brings back the error with:

Apache/2.0.54 (Gentoo/Linux) PHP/4.3.11 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e Server at cynthia Port 80

as the footer of the page. I don't understand that it states PHP/4.3.11 but fails to parse the PHP within the pages.

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
-paco

bathory · 07-15-2005, 02:41 AM

Do you have:

Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

in your apache config file? If not try to add it and see what happens. Also try the php page you post, like this:

Code:

<?phpinfo();?>

sundialsvcs · 07-15-2005, 10:31 AM

Apache must be told ...

To load the module that provides PHP support.
To use this module when dealing with a ".php" file.
(Possibly) that it's okay to use PHP on a particular website.
Where the PHP-files for a particular web-site can be found.

The Apache log-files will be very helpful. When Apache gets the request for the PHP-file, you can see what was the response...

paco36 · 07-15-2005, 11:34 AM

Thanks for the quick replies.

I did add

Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

into my apache config file. I have been just trying to use the

Code:

<?phpinfo();?>

embedded in an html file but it would not work. However I renamed the file to phptest.php and it works perfectly.

What would be preventing the php from being parsed embedded in html vs working fine in a php file?

Thanks in advance,
-paco

bathory · 07-16-2005, 07:21 AM

Quote:

What would be preventing the php from being parsed embedded in html vs working fine in a php file?

That's what

Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

does. But you can have html code inside a .php file.

or1onas · 07-16-2005, 07:49 AM

Have you compiled apache with --with-apxs2?
Can you locate the file: libphp4.so?

comprookie2000 · 07-16-2005, 11:07 AM

Do you have this in /etc/conf.d/apache2

Code:

APACHE2_OPTS="-D PHP4"

paco36 · 07-17-2005, 10:15 AM

Still no luck getting the php tags to get parsed in html. I do have

Code:

APACHE2_OPTS="-D PHP4"

in my /etc/conf.d/apache2. I did not compile apache using --with-apxs2. I just emerged apache. But I can locate libphp4.so.

Really not sure what the deal with this is.

Thanks again,
-paco

comprookie2000 · 07-17-2005, 10:23 AM

Try revdep-rebuild -p
see if it can find anything
I had the same problem one time and I think I did something with;
/etc/apache2/conf/modules.d/70_mod_php.conf

Code:

# vim: ft=apache sw=4 ts=4
<IfDefine PHP4>

	# Load the module first
	<IfModule !sapi_apache2.c>
		LoadModule php4_module    extramodules/libphp4.so
	</IfModule>

	# Set it to handle the files
	<IfModule mod_mime.c>
		AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
		AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml
		AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
		AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4
		AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
	</IfModule>

	# Fix some bugs
	<Files *.php>
		# keep this the same size as post_max_size in php.ini
		# LimitRequestBody 8388608
	</Files>
	<Files *.php3>
		# keep this the same size as post_max_size in php.ini
		# LimitRequestBody 8388608
	</Files>
	<Files *.php4>
		# keep this the same size as post_max_size in php.ini
		# LimitRequestBody 8388608
	</Files>
	<Files *.phps>
		# keep this the same size as post_max_size in php.ini
		# LimitRequestBody 8388608
	</Files>
	<Files *.phtml>
		# keep this the same size as post_max_size in php.ini
		# LimitRequestBody 8388608
	</Files>

</IfDefine>

workman161 · 07-17-2005, 10:36 AM

Just to be sure, try restarting apache with
# apachectl restart

paco36 · 07-17-2005, 11:11 AM

I could not get apachectl or revdep working... command not found. However, I did add

Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

to my /etc/apache2/conf/modules.d/70_mod_php.conf and now it will parse the php in the html pages. I do feel like this will add a lot of overhead to the server running .html pages that do not have any php code in them. But for now it will interpret the php tags embedded in HTML. So it is a bit of a quick fix, but at least it works.

Thanks a lot for all of your help,
-paco

workman161 · 07-17-2005, 11:17 AM

Well, you are supposed to save your php scripts with the .php extension, not the .html. It runs index.php, but not index.html. And the hash (#) means that you are logged in as root, so you needed to run apachectl as root. Its only in one of the sbin directories.

comprookie2000 · 07-17-2005, 11:40 AM

To restart apache2 with gentoo its;
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
to start at boot
rc-update add apache2 default
to see what is starting in default runlevel
rc-update show