php does not work in Slackware 10.1

I am using Slackware 10.1. PHP will not load, and will not serve up any HTML, even when I put

Include /etc/apache/mod_php.conf


LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml

Any ideas?

mr.popper

run

Code:

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tail -f /path/to/apache/error_log

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while you restart apache and see what (if any) errors it spits out...

If you did the standard install you will have to edit /etc/httpd.conf and uncomment the line near the bottom (like 80% down) so that apache will realize that php files are special and get sent to the php executable. Otherwise it will treat them as plaintext and html.

I had to make sure three things were in my httpd.conf file.

There was a .so file that needed to be loaded as a module.
There was also a .c file in the section below the default config.
Had to uncomment the file types .php .phps

If you just did a default install of apache and a default install of php, all you really need to do is copy the php.ini file over to /etc/apache and use the default httpd.conf file, make those three changes/confirm I described above, and you should be set.

Thas is all I did with my Slack 10.1 install, and everything worked fine!

which .so file needs to be loaded as a module? and what do I do about that .c file?

This is what I have in my httpd.conf file:

With the LoadModules:
LoadModule php4_module libexec/apache/libphp4.so

With the AddModules:
AddModule mod_php4.c

And finally:
# This next section adds handlers for .php file.
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>

That is all I needed to do. And this is slack 10.1, nothing fancy.