Installing Apache2 with PHP5.x (incl. old Apache+PHP4.x)

cmassa · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 44 Location: seattle

this was definitely the easiest apache installation ive ever done, but also the most perplexing. emerge is cool, but i was lost without apachectl and httpd.conf.

thanks to all for adding to this!

Lohman · n00b Joined: 10 Nov 2003 Posts: 7

"Warning: module_php4 already loaded ignoring"

I eliminated that message by not adding the LoadModule php4 to the apache2.conf. The -D PHP4 in the conf.d/apache2 apparently causes it to load PHP before it even reads the .conf file which is why it states that when it reads the LoadModule php4 in the conf.

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Slammer · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:38 am Post subject:

I have installed apache2 and mod_php. Apache loads the php module successfully but when I try to load this index.htm file:

valuial · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 85

You need to name it index.php, not index.htm

with the extension htm apache tries to interpret it without php-interpretation...

Ps: Sorry for my bad english...

Edit: Apache doesnt interpret at all, the browser gets the raw file, and interprets the

Slammer · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject:

After renaming to .php everything is OK.
Solved! Thanks!
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dmak · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 6

i tried to emerge php mod_php
and it says something about unable to download couple packages and was aborted. I think the package that emerge get isn't there anymore how can i get emerge to download the needed packages.

-dmak

0paque · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 1

I tried the following:

Sanderfox · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 101

I used this howto to get apache working with php, and it's almost working I think. The only thing that isn't right, is that if I want to go to a directory on my webserver (from the internet, not local) with an index.php file in it, I get the downloadmanager up asking me if I want to open or save.
Does any one have a solution for this problem ?

Ladynik0n · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 75

theProphecy · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: umm.. it wouldnt start?

Lajasha · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:48 pm Post subject:

neomatrix35 · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 53

to get apache to load with a index.php you need to add it to the config file. theres a line that has "index.html, index.htm, index.shtml... and so on"... just add index.php to that and you'll have no problems

sk93 · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 7

just wanted to say thanks for the guide.

I've been messing around with apache / php /mysql all weekend, and this is the first, up to date, guide that got everything working first time.

Nicely done

theProphecy · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:11 am Post subject:

neomatrix35 · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 53

what is ur problem?

theProphecy · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:41 am Post subject:

Well have no problem now that im running Apache 1.x, but as I said, I had a problem with PHP and Apache 2, doing some very strange errors in regular expressions. The wierd thing, was that it made no sence about when the error occured.
I had a piece of code, which when being runned would make apache crash. Then to determine what caused the crash, i made some replicas of the script (simpler versions of the regular expression), and found out that when I systematically executed specific pieces of code (the simpler versions of the regular expression), then "building" my way back up to the original script. And after doing all this "building up", I could one or two times execute the script that earlier crashed apache, but only one or two times, then it started crashing apache again.
The funny thing is that the simpler scripts were cut back versions of the "big" one that made apache crash. And the correct order to execute them (in order to get the "big" one running a couple of times), was with the most cut back one, first, and then the next most simple cut back one and so on, until all the simpler versions had been executed. Very strange.
Unfortunately (spelling?

) im not sure if I have the script anymore, might have it, but not 100% sure it's the same. (I might have further developed on it since).

I also checked the same script on other serves running Apache 1.x, and there were no problems at all, so I thought it might be Apache 2.x, and therefor I installed it on my machine, not changing anything else (even not the PHP installation), and that made the trick. (or it might just be because I used my laptop running Windows as server, hehe.)
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neomatrix35 · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 53

wow... i have no clue... never heard of a script crashing an apache server before....i mean non-malicious anyways.... sorry dude.... but if try to install apache2 on gentoo... it might work.. never know

theProphecy · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:06 pm Post subject:

Well thanks anyways.

It mights, but really no big problem, since Apache 1.x solved the problem. And since most webhosts run apache 1.x, its not that big of a deal, programming on the same version.

And I like having everything with me around on my laptop (developing server, source code etc.) so it has to be on it.
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DaRkNeS · n00b Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 18 Location: Italy

I have a little problem... When i point my browser to the webserver:

Warning: Unknown(/var/www/localhost/htdocs/default.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '/var/www/localhost/htdocs/default.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0

In the php page there's the phpinfo function BUT phpbb work well... maybe something wrong with php includes. Any solution?

Excuse me for my english

tehnomage · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

I seem to have the exact same problem, and please note that before what ever happend ( I think some upgrade ocurred) I had a nice php app fully working.

tehnomage · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

Ok, this is how I solved it, I set the perms for /var/www/ to 755 and the user:group to root:root. Note that the doc roots for my vhosts are in the form : /var/www/host/so_on.

Hope it helps.

DaRkNeS · n00b Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 18 Location: Italy

it works, thanks

BUT it's safe to give 755 to this directory?

Gentist · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 247

I have a problem with mod_php, it doesn't load with apache, despite the fact that I edited /etc/conf.d/apache2 and added:

tehnomage · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

yeah, it is ok. if you wanna be paranoid, you can set it to 555 and root:root, so it should be readable and accessable by anyone and be owned by root only, but not writeable even by root ( from a shell obtained by exploiting some vuln, for example).