Using php4 to manage Apache 1.3 access database

I'm trying to make a web page to maintain my Apache authorization file with instead of dbmmanage. Since I have to have php loaded for other reasons I started there. Problem seems to be that the OpenBSD package and port systems only seem to gdbm for php-4 and gdbm is not supported by Apache 1.3 (gdbm does seem to be supported for Apache 2 but that is not an option for me). Sort of a catch 22. Is this correct or am I more likely malforming the gdbm database or something else? Context is: OpenBSD 3.9 with default chrooted Apache 1.3 db-4.2.52p8 gdbm-1.8.3p0 php4-core-4.4.1p0 php4-dba-4.4.1p0 Ruby 1.8 supports DB files but I don't really want to move all the Ruby stuff to /var/www/ (required for the chrooted Apache install). Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Doug Carter