PHP not working since Panther

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marcello70

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I have just upgraded to Panther and my invoicing program (done with PHP/MySQL) stopped working. I think it's related to the fact that I had previously defined a root password, and with the change it expired (?). I don't know. The root password was in every script to connect with the database, and I think for that reason it doesn't work. I have tried the test.php also and it did not work neither, so maybe I'm wrong. But when I try to log into the mysql prompt the root password is rejected. So you probably know better than me what I need.

He's what I think I need:

1. Need to learn again how to set a root password.
2. Need to edit some lines in some php file to allow it to work with panther

Thank you,
Marcello
 
Compare the contents of your /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file with the contents of /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.applesaved (if it exists). You may find that the upgrade replaced your old Apache configuration with one that doesn't enable PHP.
 
Ok, just how do I do that. I was told to use the edit command but that doesn't seem to work:

[Marcellos-Computer:~] marcello% edit /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
tcsh: edit: Command not found.

Thank you.
 
Instead of "edit" type "pico":

sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

Then enter your password.
 
Arden said:
Instead of "edit" type "pico":

sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

Then enter your password.
Click to expand...

sudo pico worked fine. Look what I did:

1. Uncomment "Load Module php4_module" line.
2. Uncomment "AddModule mod_php4.c" line.
3. Added this line at the end "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php" line.

That's all I could find in httpd.conf.applesaved that was different from httpd.conf, and still doesn't work. :confused:

Any ideas?
 
PHP & MySQL are delicate little creatures, rather than patch together what you have [or rather, what you haven't]

Go on over to Entropy and follow the tutorials for updating both PHP & MySQL from binaries available there.

I've _never_ used the versions of PHP & MySQL that come with OS X; you don't get all of the libraries, I always use the source files from Entropy.

Hope that helps?..
 
Thanks octane, the answer was simple, just needed to:

sudo chmod g-w /

We are supposed to do that after upgrading the OS. I knew but forgot. Has to to with priviledges stuff.

Thanks everybody.
 
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