[Mapserver-users] --with-php, Mapserver 4.0.1, and Fedora

[Daniel Morissette]

Paul Dugas wrote:
> 
> Tried it today with the same setup and got a bit farther but not all the
> way.  I installed the php-devel RPM rather than the full source package
> and got it to configure using 'configure
> --with-php=/usr/include/php/main'.  Then I manually modified the resulting
> Makefile in mapscript/php3/ changing
> 
>   PHP_SRC_DIR = /usr/include/php/main
> 
> to
> 
>   PHP_SRC_DIR = /usr/include/php/
> 

Interesting coincidence, I was actually working on this exact problem 
yesterday and (hopefully) fixed it in the development version (4.1 CVS).

What I found in my tests is that with previous versions of MapServer 
(4.0 and older), it should be possible to build against an "installed" 
PHP (or the php-devel RPM) if you point configure to the 
/usr/include/php directory (do not include main), e.g.

   ./configure .... --with-php=/usr/include/php

with that you shouldn't have to manually edit the makefile.

With the 4.1 (CVS) version, just using --with-php=/usr should do.


> The build went okay but I got all kinds of errors (didn't record them but
> could if needed) when I copied the SO into the right directory, fired up
> apache, and hit some of the examples.  I'm wondering if this might be an
> apache 2.0 problem?
> 

Note that PHP MapScript requires PHP configured as a CGI, so if your PHP 
RPM is configured as an Apache module that could explain the problems 
you had.

Daniel
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