cvs: php4 / INSTALL

andrei Mon Jul 10 10:35:18 2000 EDT Modified files: /php4 INSTALL Log: php.ini install docs from David Croft <david@infotrek.co.uk> Index: php4/INSTALL diff -u php4/INSTALL:1.15 php4/INSTALL:1.16 --- php4/INSTALL:1.15 Tue May 23 10:23:21 2000 +++ php4/INSTALL Mon Jul 10 10:35:18 2000 @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ INSTALLATION WITH THE ZEUS WEB SERVER: --Please see the 'README.Zeus' file included in this distribution + QUICK INSTALL (DSO) For this to work your Apache httpd must have mod_so enabled. @@ -36,6 +37,9 @@ look for it on your system and if you find it, provide the full path to it as: --with-apxs=/path/to/apxs +Next you must copy php.ini-dist to the appropriate place (normally +/usr/local/lib/php.ini) and edit it as necessary to set PHP options. + The only thing left to do is to edit your httpd.conf file and make sure the PHP 4 mime type is there and uncommented. You need a line that looks like this: @@ -64,10 +68,10 @@ $ ./configure --prefix=/www --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a (The above line is correct! Yes, we know libphp4.a does not exist at this stage. It isn't supposed to. It will be created.) -make +$ make (you should now have an httpd binary which you can copy to your Apache bin dir) -cd ../php-4.0.x -cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/lib/php.ini +$ cd ../php-4.0.x +$ cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/lib/php.ini You can edit /usr/local/lib/php.ini file to set PHP options. Edit your httpd.conf or srm.conf file and add: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php @@ -263,14 +267,12 @@ Note! If a line has a # at the beginning, then it is commented out and you need to remove the # for that line to take effect. + Finally you need to copy php.ini-dist to the appropriate place + (normally /usr/local/lib/php.ini) and edit if necessary. + Once you have made these changes you should be ready to restart your server and try it out. Type: apachectl restart - The create a test file named test.php in your web tree somewhere and - put some test PHP tags in it. <?phpinfo()?> is a good first test. - This tag tells PHP to do a braindump and tells you all sorts of things - about itself. - 4b. Setting up the server. (Static Module) You should now have a new httpd binary. Shut down your existing server, @@ -289,12 +291,24 @@ Any file ending in .phps will now be displayed with full colour syntax highlighting instead of being executed. - When you are finished making changes to your httpd.conf file, you can - start up your server. Note that on some older server setups, the - AddType lines are in the conf/srm.conf file instead of conf/httpd.conf. + Note that on some older server setups, the AddType lines are in the + conf/srm.conf file instead of conf/httpd.conf. Note! If a line has a # at the beginning, then it is commented out and you need to remove the # for that line to take effect. + + When you are finished making changes to your httpd.conf file, you need + to copy php.ini-dist to the appropriate place (normally + /usr/local/lib/php.ini) and edit if necessary. You can then + start up your server. + +5. Testing it all worked + + Create a test file named test.php in your web tree somewhere and + put some test PHP tags in it. <?phpinfo()?> is a good first test. + This tag tells PHP to do a braindump and tells you all sorts of things + about itself. + WHY DISABLING -fPIC WORKS ON LINUX