[mapserver-users] PHP3 or PHP4 ???

[Daniel Morissette]

Janet Ciavarelli wrote:
> 
> I installed PHP4 but now I'm having a hard time getting it to work (in Windows NT). I'm not sure what you mean by installing my PHP4 as a CGI. There seems to be very little about this in the installation manual. Do you mean just copy php.exe into the cgi-bin?
> 

No it's not just a matter of copying the php.exe to cgi-bin, but it's
not very complicated either.  Assuming you're using Apache, follow the
instructions attached below for the CGI case (i.e. skip the part about
the Apache module)... it's a copy of what you find in the file
install.txt in the PHP 4.0.4 Win32 distribution.  There is also
instructions for the other web servers in that same install.txt.

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Installtion instructions
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Apache:
1. Stop the Apache Webserver.
Edit the httpd.conf and put in these lines, modified to your
environment:
2. Unzip the Package to c:\php, now move php4ts.dll to the
windows/system(32) directory, overwritte any older file!

# for the apache module
LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4

#for the cgi binary (you can use that one compiled with force cgi
redirect too)
ScriptAlias /php4/ "C:/php/"
Action application/x-httpd-php4 "/php4/php.exe"
AddType application/x-httpd-php4 .php

3. Copy the php.ini-dist to your sysroot (directory where you installed
windows), rename it to php.ini, and
edit the php.ini to fit your needs.
4. Restart the Apache server.