[Mapserver-users] Using PHP as CGI when compiled as DSO

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu 
> [mailto:mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Jason Thaxter
> Sent: 17 March 2004 18:37
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] Using PHP as CGI when compiled as DSO
> 
> 
> 
> Yet another way to run PHP CGI when compiled as a DSO and/or 
> free-standing language (but not as a CGI).
> 
> As usual:
> 	In httpd.conf:
> 		Action phtml-script /cgi-bin/php
> 		AddHandler phtml-script .phtml
> 
> 	This assumes that /cgi-bin is a ScriptAlias'd directory, e.g.:
> 		ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /path/to/cgi-bin
> 
> But:
> 	In the CGI directory, make php the following script:
> 		#!/bin/sh
> 		php -f $PATH_TRANSLATED
> 
> This assumes that php can be found in the $PATH under which 
> Apache runs. Make
> it:
> 	/path/to/your/php -f $PATH_TRANSLATED
> if in doubt...
> 
> I'm adding a note to the Wiki. Hopefully this Wiki page will 
> keep evolving for as long as PHP mapscript cannot run as a module.
> 
> Jason


Hi Jason,

Thanks for the hint! I couldn't get this to work as described above as I
found that PHP outputted headers and then appeared to barf :(. After a
lot of heartache, I found that I had to correct the SCRIPT_FILENAME CGI
parameter before it would work for me. My eventual CGI file looked like
this:

#!/bin/sh
export SCRIPT_FILENAME=$PATH_TRANSLATED
EXEC="/usr/bin/php -f $PATH_TRANSLATED"
$EXEC

After making this change, everything suddenly came to life. I don't know
if there was anything peculiar about the compile options which I should
have noticed that caused this problem, but the box was running RedHat
7.2 with Apache 1.3 and PHP 4.3.3.


Cheers,

Mark.

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