Re: Verifying PHP support

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:49:51 -0400 (CLT) "Daniel Molina
Wegener" <dmwunete.cl> wrote:

 > El Mar, 26 de Junio de 2007, 10:38, Darryl Hoar
escribió:
 > > Greetings,
 > > I have a machine with 6.2 release installed on
it.
 > > I have apache 1.3.37 installed and am using it
 > > for my personal website.   I want to install
Gallery2
 > > for doing photo albums.  The pkg info in ports
says
 > > it needs php support.   I did a pkg_info -a and
did
 > > not see php installed on my system.  How should
 > > I add php support so that I can install Gallery2
?
 > 
 >   Ok, it depends on which version of php do you want.
I can't remember
 > exactly where is the port, but you can search for it
on /usr/ports
 > and make search:
 > 
 >   # cd /usr/ports
 >   # make search name=php4
 >   # make search name=php5
 > 
 >   If the port is in lang
 > 
 >   # cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
 >   # make config install clean

Yes, remembering to turn ON the Apache module during make
config; it's
been turned off by default (for some bizarre reason) a
couple of years.

 >   The php extensions are installed separatelly.

Yes, but not the Apache module, which can only be installed
from ports.

 >   If you want binary packages, look for the available
package version
 > at the Makefile in the port directory and install with
pkg_add:
 > 
 >   # pkg_add -r 'php5'

Which, because building the Apache module is not enabled by
default, as
above, will only provide PHP CLI and CGI support, but not
the desired
Apache module .. presumably the reason most people install
PHP at all.

This will keep on bamboozling folks expecting pkg_add php5
(or php4) to
provide PHP support for Apache, until either default build
options are
changed, or a specific "php5-apache" port (thus
package) is created. 

 > > thanks,
 > > Darryl
 > 
 >   Good luck...
 > 
 > >
 > > BTW, on a different machine a while ago, I tried
 > > installing php after the fact and had a bit of a
 > > mess on my hands, thus the question.
 > > [SNIP]

Exactly.  This will keep on coming up on -questions
regularly.

Cheers, Ian

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