I am really struggling to get php running on my site. It ran "out of the box" on a P166 that I had running, but on my 486 that I use as a server/firewall, I just can't seem to get php working under apache!

PHP is installed, and I can pipe code through it from the console, but mod_php doesn't seem to be present. http.conf is set up properly to handle php, but returns the php source.

I'm not familiar with the installation details to quite understand the relationship between php and mod_php and what needs to be done.

Can anyone give me some hints? I've been working on this for weeks without success! I want my squirrelmail back!

(p.s. I upgraded the 486 from RH 6.1 to 7.3 and decided it should be easier to use it as the web server rather than get port forwarding working to the very flakey P166. I really need a new firewall/server!)

TIA,

Michael

try this change to your httpd.conf

#<IfDefine HAVE_PHP>
LoadModule php_module modules/mod_php.so
#</IfDefine>

#<IfDefine HAVE_PHP>
AddModule mod_php.c
#</IfDefine>


and make sure you actually have the module

restart the server

I played a bit more last night. I definitely do not have the module. Is mod_php not part of a RedHat rpm?? httpd-l only lists a couple modules, and there is no mod_php.so in the apache/modules directory.

I tried to compile php --with-apache but it appears that the correct apache components aren't in place.

The documentation on php.net seem to make it so simple! Why have I been playing with this for a month without managing to even get a clear explaination of the problem until now?

Michael

I got it working, but I'm not quite sure how. I erased the php rpm and reinstalled it as well as trying to compile php. I must have been using a browser cache, because when I tried my test file from work, it worked!

So I don't have a clear idea as to what caused it, but after I tried 20 different things, something worked!

Michael