#20888 [NEW]: Installation instructions for Apache CGI mode missing/misleading

From: jpl@remotejava.com Operating system: PHP version: 4.3.0RC2 PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Installation instructions for Apache CGI mode missing/misleading I tried installing 4.3.0RC2 in CGI mode for Apache, following the documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.commandline.php Result: one hour wasted. Reason: the page does not contain any hint as to what directives need to be added to the httpd.conf to enable processing of *.php files by the interpreter. There is a user-provided docnote which handles this, suggesting to use something like this: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 ScriptAlias /php4/ "/home/king/php-4.1.2/" Action application/x-httpd-php /php4/php Unfortunately, this is dangerously outdated: you must use /php4/php-cgi, not /php4/php. Failing to do so results in the very difficult to debug "Premature end of script headers" message in server's error log. That "php-cgi" thing is mentioned NOWHERE on the CGI installation page - I only managed to solve it through advice on IRC. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20888&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=20888&r=isapi