#7641 [Com]: cgi binary with "enable-discard-path" fails with empty doc_root value

ID: 7641 Comment by: ftrudeau at zesolution dot com Reported By: ugb-listen at gmx dot de Status: Closed Bug Type: *Web Server problem Operating System: Linux 2.2.16 i686 PHP Version: 4.0 Latest CVS (04/11/2000) New Comment: Problem still occuring with PHP 4.3.5, might as well reopen this bug case. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-01-10 02:06:00] lobbin@php.net No feedback. Closing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-12-20 09:48:50] lobbin@php.net Any luck with the testing? PHP 4.1.0 might be a wise choice as well. R. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-20 12:28:41] ugb-listen at gmx dot de Unfortunately, I am currently not able to test it due to time limitation. Please do not close the bug report yet, I might have time to test ist in the next couple of weeks (this report is 8 months old anyway). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-19 02:53:39] sniper@php.net Does this happen with latest CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2000-11-04 20:26:34] ugb-listen at gmx dot de Similar Problems have been described in Bug id #5163 and Bug id #6201, but obviously are still not resolved completely : when compiling the cgi version, even a simple phpinfo() doesn't work when called via Apache (while it works fine on the command line). The error message in the browser shows up as: Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/php on line NNN (Apache 1.3.14 - other errors were reported by users of Netscape/iPlanet) I have tried lots of different compilation settings, and found only one common element: the problem only occurs if --enable-discard-path is specified. Any other combination of configure flags result in a binary that works fine as long as --enable-discard-path is not used. I tried both the download version 4.03pl1 and snapshot-200011041645, the only difference with the snapshot version is that it shows a different error message: Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/php on line 116 Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/php on line 116 Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=11) state=1 in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/php on line 116 Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=8) state=1 in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/php on line 116 Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/php on line 116 A temporary solution is to set the doc_root in php.ini to a non-empty value. However, under some circumstances it is undesirable to explicitly set this value - e.g. when sharing a single php binary among different virtual servers, so php shouldn't fail even without doc_root set. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=7641&edit=1