[TriLUG] PHP for Mandrake 9.1

[Andrew DeFaria]

Hello. I hope you don't mine me emailing you directly (I've also cc'ed 
trilug at trilug.org but I don't read that mail list regularly) but I seen 
you post the following:

    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).

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.

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.

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.

For example, I found mod_php-4.3.1-1mdk and thought that that was all I 
needed but I got:

$  rpm -i mod_php-4.3.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        mm = 1.2.2 is needed by mod_php-4.3.1-1mdk
        libmm.so.1   is needed by mod_php-4.3.1-1mdk

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".

I also looked at the urpmi at http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon but it tells 
me to run:

$ urpmi.addmedia main 
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS 
with ../base/hdlist.cz

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?

I tried:

$ cd /tmp
$  urpmi.addmedia main 
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
 with ./hdlist.cz
added medium main
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Local RPMs.cz]
retrieving description file of "main"...
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"...
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"...
    
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/hdlist.cz
...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 7 or signal 0

retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
no hdlist file found for medium "main"
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz]
problem reading synthesis file of medium "main"
unable to update medium "main"

-- 
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I can ask him what he meant.
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