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Hello. I hope you don't mine me emailing you directly (I've also cc'ed
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:trilug@trilug.org">trilug@trilug.org</a> but I don't read that mail list regularly) but I seen
you post the following:<br>
<blockquote>BTW, I'm currently running apache2 and mod_php on Mandrake
9.1 and didn't have any of the problems you're describing. What
instructions where you using? With Mandrake, everything should just
work if you install it using their rpms (using urpmi above).<br>
</blockquote>
I have Mandrake 9.1 running Apache 2.0 and have not been able to get
php working. I'd appreciate it if you could help me out.<br>
<br>
I was hoping that all the components for Apache2 and PHP were already
installed and all I needed to do was configure Apache correctly and it
would but that was not the case. There was only one library on my
system that had php in it at /usr/lib/libphp_common.so.430. Using that
lib for LoadModule and restarting Apache 2 complained of unresolved
externals.<br>
<br>
So I searched for RPMs for updating Apache2 and/or mod_php. I found
various packages but haven't been able to find the right packages to
get this to work.<br>
<br>
For example, I found mod_php-4.3.1-1mdk and thought that that was all I
needed but I got:<br>
<br>
$ rpm -i mod_php-4.3.1-1mdk.i586.rpm <br>
error: failed dependencies:<br>
mm = 1.2.2 is needed by mod_php-4.3.1-1mdk<br>
libmm.so.1 is needed by mod_php-4.3.1-1mdk<br>
<br>
I can find libmm.so.1 but not the mm 1.2.2. I managed to get the source
for mm 1.2.2 and built and installed it. But I still fail with the
above dependency error since rpm's database we never updated to reflect
that mm 1.2.2 has been installed. So I told rpm to install without
dependency checks and configured Apache but when I visit a simply
"helloworld.php" page it asks me to save the file instead of echoing
out "hello world".<br>
<br>
I also looked at the urpmi at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon">http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon</a> but it
tells me to run:<br>
<br>
$ urpmi.addmedia main
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS">ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS</a>
with ../base/hdlist.cz<br>
<br>
That doesn't look right! The relative path of ../base/hdlist.cz assumes
I'm supposed to be in some particular directory. Which directory am I
supposed to be in?<br>
<br>
I tried:<br>
<br>
$ cd /tmp<br>
$ urpmi.addmedia main
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS">ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS</a><br>
with ./hdlist.cz<br>
added medium main<br>
examining synthesis file
[/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz]<br>
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Local RPMs.cz]<br>
retrieving description file of "main"...<br>
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"...<br>
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/hdlist.cz">ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/hdlist.cz</a><br>
...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 7 or signal 0<br>
<br>
retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed<br>
no hdlist file found for medium "main"<br>
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz]<br>
problem reading synthesis file of medium "main"<br>
unable to update medium "main"<br>
<br>
-- <br>
My friend has a baby. I'm writing down all the noises he makes so later
I can ask him what he meant.<br>
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