[maplab-users] Php/CGI - MapLab problem

[Paul Spencer]

David, as you have surmised, MapScript will not work reliably as a 
module, only cgi.  Assuming that you are compiling php421, you could can 
modify the httpd.conf file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .php3 .phtml
Action phtml-script /cgi-bin/php421

and copy your php to /var/www/cgi-bin/php421

Change the rest of your configuration back to the way it was and then 
comment out the <IfModule> for mod_php4 and mod_php3 (and any other 
php-related options

Oh, one other change, you may want to add index.phtml as a valid default 
page in <IfModule mod_dir.c>

David Graham wrote:

> Just installed the latest MapLab but now having problems with Php.  
> Here is the details
>
> Php 4.1.2
>
> MapScript Version ($Revision: 1.113 $ $Date: 2002/07/08 21:28:57 $)
> MapServer version 3.7 (development) OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP 
> SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=TTF SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG 
> INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
>
> Apache 1.3.23
>
> Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 
> 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:32:41 EDT 
> 2002
>
> I am not a Php person, but I have done a lot of work with mapscript.  
> I installed MapLab and everything was working great, until I tried to 
> render things.  Then I got a page generated by Mapscript that 
> refrenced a threading problem at 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PHPMapScriptCGI.
>
> So I endevered to install the CGI version of PHP.  I first found that 
> Red Hat ships with one in /usr/bin.|
>
> root@host# cp /usr/bin/php /var/www/cgi-bin/.
> root@host# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf |
>
> I found the section for the php4 module.  It looked like:
>
> | <IfModule mod_php4.c>
>    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .php3 .phtml
>    AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
> </IfModule>
> <IfModule mod_php3.c>
>    AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
>    AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps
> </IfModule>
> <IfModule mod_php.c>
>    AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml
> </IfModule> |
>
> I remove the .phtml type from the php4 section. Then add the following 
> lines below the php module definitions.
>
> | Action phtml-script /cgi-bin/php
> AddHandler phtml-script .phtml |
>
> I restarted the Http Server and went back to the 
> maplab/htdocs/index.phtml page and this is what I got:
>
> *Warning*:  Unexpected character in input:  '' (ASCII=4) state=1 in 
> */var/www/cgi-bin/php* on line *6081*
> *Warning*:  Unexpected character in input:  ' in 
> */var/www/cgi-bin/php* on line *6082*
> *Warning*:  Unexpected character in input:  '' (ASCII=4) state=1 in 
> */var/www/cgi-bin/php* on line *6082*
> *Warning*:  Unexpected character in input:  '' (ASCII=4) state=1 in 
> */var/www/cgi-bin/php* on line *6083*
> *Warning*:  Unexpected character in input:  '' (ASCII=28) state=1 in 
> */var/www/cgi-bin/php* on line *6084*
> *Parse error*:  parse error in */var/www/cgi-bin/php* on line *6084*
>
> My question is - What have I done wrong!
>
> Things worked well before I made the switch to CGI (with the exception 
> that mapscript did not want to work).  Any help anyone can give would 
> be aprecieated.
>
> Dave
>