Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Behavior of PHP module vs. PHP cgi

[email protected] (Keith Roberts) Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:00:56 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups	php.install
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Jesse Santana wrote:

> To: [email protected]
> From: Jesse Santana <[email protected]>
> Subject: [PHP-INSTALL] Behavior of PHP module vs. PHP cgi
> 
> Can someone explain to me why this script:
>
> #!/usr/local/php5/bin/php

You don't need this line for the apache module version of 
php. This is a shell directive to run the CLI version of 
PHP, which is not required by the apache PHP module.

> <html>
> <head><title>PHP Test</title></head>
> <body>
>   <p>If nothing follows this paragraph, PHP is not enabled.</p>
>   <?php phpinfo() ?>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Displays perfectly on a system with PHP installed and 
> running as an Apache module - see:

> http://eagles.its.csulb.edu/php/phptest.php. Yet displays 
> completely differently when run through PHP compiled as a 
> CGI - see: 
> http://eagles.its.csulb.edu/~jsantana/phptest.php

Looking at the output it seems like this is running the CLI 
version of PHP. Not the apache module of PHP or the CGI 
version.

> I've noticed this behavior on all PHP versions since 5.2.3 came out.
> Version 5.2.2 displays correctly when compiled as a CGI as shown here:
> http://gaggle.its.csulb.edu/~jsantana/phptest.php

This may be running the CGI version of PHP. So there appears 
to be three different versions of PHP you are running here.

It may be that the default behavoir for running PHP as a CGI 
script has been modified since PHP 5.2.2?

HTH

Regards,

Keith Roberts

> Thank you in advance,
>
> Jesse Santana
> Project Lead - Enterprise Services Group
> Information Technology Services
> California State University, Long Beach
> 1250 Bellflower Blvd.
> Long Beach, CA  90840
> Office: (562)985-8511
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