PHP as CGI

Hi there! pardon me if this has been covered amillion times; I'm new to this newsgroup, so I haven't been following it for ages; plus, I browsed the archives and couldn't really find a solution to my problem. I'm trying to make PHP work with apache as CGI. My system at home is a linux system with SuSE 7.2 (apache as rpm), and at work I'm trying it on a SPARC with Solaris 5.8 and self-compiled apache. I've successfully compiled PHP as executable without problems; it works fine on the command line, so I guess the compiling was successful. Now I'm trying to teach apache to use it. I've RTFM and added the following to my httpd.conf: ---snip--- ScriptAlias /php-cgi/ /usr/local/httpd/php-cgi/ Action application/x-httpd-php /php-cgi/php AddType application/x-httpd-php .php ---snip--- that's what I found all over the web how to do it. I've copied my compiled php to /usr/local/httpd/php-cgi/ and made a chmod 755 to it. Now, when I call the famous Hello World script (hello.php) ---snip--- <? print "Hello World"; ?< ---snip--- like "http://www.blah.com/hello.php" (assuming the php file is in the doc root) I get the following error message: "Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/httpd/php-cgi/php on line 3806" What's this? what am I missing? As I said... I can call php on the shell prompt, it's output looks perfect. What's wrong here? oh, for the record: here's my ./configure for php: ./configure --without-apache --enable-force-cgi-redirect --enable-discard-path --enable-ftp --with-gd --enable-trans-sid --with-gnu-ld Can anyone here help me out? Thanx!