[ILUG] PHP and Suse Professional...

[Drew Ferguson]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:43:15 +0100
Braun Brelin <bbrelin at openapp.biz> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm trying to build a LAMP site using Apache 1.3.x and PHP 4.3.4. 
> I'm trying to run this on Suse Professional Edition 9.1. 

there are a couple of issues with Suse91 php packages which might also catch you out

One is documented at 
	http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/fhassel_php4_91.html

also one or more of the rpms is broken, possibly the recode extension, which causes Yast install/uninstall to not complete properly leaving installed extensions and apache config files disagreeing with each other. This is what I did to get PHP running...

0. Stop apache service
1. Use Yast to remove *all* apache and PHP packages
2. make sure /usr/lib/php/extensions is empty or non-existent
2a. if its not, then uninstall leftover extensions with "rpm -e --noscripts"
3. Use yast to install as small a set of PHP extensions you can get away with - and build up carefully
4. restart apache2

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Drew