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24. March 2004

Apache2 with PHP5 CGI and PHP4 module on OS X
PHP (wiki) | Apache (wiki) - urs @ 15:15:30

Looking at the configuration now looks like it was a job at ease; but it took me some hours to work properly. PHP is now working in two versions in parallel on Apache2 on OS X 10.3.3. I will show you the configurations for the compilation first. Firstly, there is the configuration for PHP 4.3.4:

#:~/src/php-4.3.4 urs$ ./configure \
 --disable-cgi \
 --disable-pdo \
 --enable-force-cgi-redirect \
 --prefix=/usr/local/php \
 --with-zlib \
 --with-iconv=/sw/ \
 --without-bundle-libxml \
 --with-dom=/sw/ \
 --with-libxml-dir=/sw/ \
 --with-xsl=/sw/ \
 --disable-pear \
 --with-gd \
 --with-freetype-dir=/sw/lib/freetype2/ \
 --with-jpeg-dir=/sw/ \
 --with-png-dir=/sw/ \
 --enable-sockets \
 --enable-pcntl \
 --enable-shmop \
 --enable-sysvshm \
 --enable-sysvsem \
 --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/ \
 --enable-debug \
 --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
 --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php \
 --with-config-file=/usr/local/php/php.ini

As below, this is what you can type to get PHP 5.0.0 RC1:

#:~/src/php-5.0.0RC1 urs$ ./configure \
 --enable-force-cgi-redirect \
 --prefix=/usr/local/php5-cgi \
 --with-zlib \
 --with-iconv=/sw/ \ 
 --without-bundle-libxml \
 --with-dom=/sw/ \
 --with-libxml-dir=/sw/ \
 --with-xsl=/sw/ \
 --disable-pear \
 --with-gd \
 --with-freetype-dir=/sw/lib/freetype2/ \
 --with-jpeg-dir=/sw/ \
 --with-png-dir=/sw/ \
 --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/ \
 --enable-debug \
 --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php5-cgi \
 --with-config-file=/usr/local/php5-cgi/php.ini

I have chose specific configuration paths for each version. As far as I can see, you need to give the path and the filename as well. Especially for the CGI version, you should specify the option --enable-force-cgi-redirect.

Now the tricky part was to get a working configuration for the virtual hosts. The idea behind is to have a PHP 4 module installed as default and a per-virtual-host-configuration for other versions of PHP; that might be PHP 5 or 3. So on port 86 php scripts will be processed by PHP 5.0.0 RC1.


 Listen 86
 <VirtualHost _default_:86>
     ServerName localhost
     
     ScriptAlias /php5 /usr/local/php5-cgi/bin/
     <Directory /usr/local/php5-cgi/bin/>
         Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
         AllowOverride None
     </Directory>
  
     DocumentRoot /Library/Webserver/Documents/project-a
     <Directory /Library/Webserver/Documents/project-a>
   DirectoryIndex index.php
         Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
         AllowOverride None Options FileInfo
         Action php5-cgi /php5/php
         AddHandler php5-cgi .php .php5
     </Directory>
 
     ErrorLog logs/default_86-error_log
     CustomLog logs/default_86-access_log combined
 </VirtualHost>
 
 <VirtualHost *>
  LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php 
  AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
  DocumentRoot /Library/Webserver/
  <Directory /Library/Webserver/>
   DirectoryIndex index.php
         Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
         AllowOverride None Options FileInfo
     </Directory>
 </VirtualHost>

I collected various links and jotted down some eventually interesting information in the (Wiki/PHP5).

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Comment by pilgrim @ 2004-04-01 22:29:08:

Hi, just a question about the "LoadModule" for php4 in the virtual host: it is said in the apache 1.3 and apache 2 that this directive can't be in a virtual host... So how it is possible to work ? ;-)

Comment by Urs @ 2004-04-05 11:03:56:

Hello Mark - as I guess you are ;-)

You are right, inbetween I removed that LoadModule configuration setting as because of reasons you mentioned. The current settings look now like:

LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

<Directory *>
DirectoryIndex index.php
Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None Options FileInfo
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>

Liste 89
<VirtualHost _default_:89>
# Some settings for this specific VirtualHost
</VirtualHost>

ThanQ for your feedback.