Re: PHP 4 manual / Building CGI + Module

On 6 Jun, Liz Kimber wrote: > Hi, > > I know this topic has been partly covered but.. > > The http://www.php.net/manual points to the php3 documentation > while this > may seem petty I was looking for details on installing PHP as a CGI > > I have installed PHP as a module, everythings happy there bar a few > segfaults and things > > However, the CGI one is not working so well. > > If my php binary is placed in say /usr/local/bin and I place therefore a > #!/usr/local/bin/php at the top of my sctipts and put them in the CGI > directory its not working. > > The manual says to run a script called ./setup.. this didnt come with PHP4 > src that I got > The manual also says I can do a ./do-conf but thats not there either. > > If you have compiled a working CGI version (there must be people out there) > please could you help. > > I end up with either > > "No input file specified" or if I copy the binary into the directory which I > didnt want to do I can end up with Premature end of script headers: > /wwwpath/cgi-bin/php > > Either way, it still hates me > > All I wanted my CGI script to do was to send back an exe after updating a > counter.. Can anyone help? But I dont want the users to be able to extract > in anyway where the exe is stored, so bouncing to its location with a > header("Location: ....../something.exe") wont suffice. > > Liz It seems like you've done all the right things if you have ended up with a php executable - as you have done, you just need to call configure with the appropriate flags. And in fact you are not the only one who has been having problems with the CGI version - I have been monitoring a thread here today from others who have similar problems, apparently with PHP cgi and Apache, and I have ongoing problems with PHP version 4. I am not using apache, and thus far haven't reported the problem here; I'm liaising with the server developer in the first instance to try and see what differences the server sees between 3 and 4. Cheers -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA