Comments on: Upgrading to PHP 5

By: js

js — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:26:17 +0000

I’ve figured it out. I also had to set doc_root to empty (or just comment it out) in my php5’s php.ini. It was originally set to my vhost1’s DocumentRoot. Sorry for the spam, but I figured this might come in handy for someone experiencing the same problems as me. All is well now. Thanks for the great book!

By: js

js — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:09:54 +0000

Got it! I also had to add “Allow From All” to my Directory section, so now mine looks like:

ScriptAlias /php5 /usr/local/php5/bin

Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Allow From All

Now another problem, only my first VirtualHost works.
http://www.vhost1.com:8080 properly loads php5.
http://www.vhost2.com:8080 loads php5, but it loads vhost1’s content. I’ve been pulling my hair out for days trying every possible combination of Listen, NameVirtualHost, and VirtualHost directives no no avail. Any ideas?

By: Adam Trachtenberg

Adam Trachtenberg — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:03:01 +0000

Hum… I’ve not used Apache 2.0 all that much, but that shouldn’t be a big difference. I would check the read permissions on the files.

By: js

js — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:55:18 +0000

Hi there, your book is great, but I’ve run into a problem from Appendix C “Installing PHP5 Alongside PHP4.” I’m using the Ports method you described, and everything went fine and appears to be working, however, when I browse to http://www.mysite.com:8080/ I get the following:

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /php5/php/index.php on this server.

The only difference I see from your instructions is that I am running Apache 1.3, not 2.0. Any ideas/tips?

By: Peter Kellner

Peter Kellner — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:10:40 +0000

I didn’t see an obvious place to send book corrections so I’m posting it here.

“Upgrading to PHP5″ page 261.” – Need if ($person = null) { … } around $this->data = array… Otherwise, when you pass in a $person, it always gets initialized.

Also, though I don’t understand why, I had to change if (is_array($person) to isset($person). Seems it should have worked you way.

Nice book by the way. Very helpful.

http://peterkellner.net