Re: cgi bug workaround

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, David Robley wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 15:15, James Peter Gregory wrote: > > hi all, > > > > I've been asked to do some work on some servers where php can only run > > as cgi. Unfortunately it seems that php has a bug which means that > > > > #!/usr/local/bin/php > > > > gets printed out at the top of each page if I do this. > > > > Are there any workarounds for this? Is it fixed in the cvs versions? > > > > thanks, > > > > James. > > You should only need the #! construct if you are running that file as a > php script from the shell/cron/whatever. If you are only serving pages > via a web server (eg using WN or somesush) you use the server method to > define those scripts as to be parsed by php and you don't need the #! I understand that. Unfortunately I'm not the one administrating this computer so we're stuck with having to find a work around for the problem. That is, I can't change the apache config at all. They'll only let us use cgi. but thanks all the same. James. > > -- > David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc > CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA > > Would I ask you a rhetorical question? > -- "I'm not vegetarian becuase I love animals; I'm vegetarian because I hate plants." - unknown.