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Re: [cobalt-developers] [HELP]PHP3 and MySQL on RaQ2 install error

"malcolm wild" <cobaltsec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> but when i try a test script
>
> [root web]# more test.php3
> <html>
> <head>
> </head>
> <body>
> <? php phpinfo() ?>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> or just <? php phpinfo() ?>
>
> I get:
>
> Parse error: parse error in /home/sites/site1/web/test.php3 on line 5 (or
> line 1)

I encourage you to always use long PHP tags for portability.  It looks like
you tried to use long tags "<?php", but actually used short tags "<?" b/c of
the space between "<?" and "php" in your code.  That's what caused the parse
error.

> Anyone get any quick ideas on how to set up
> A. php3 (or php4 on a MIPS I don't fancy a source compile!)
> B. MySQL (again MIPS based RPM that will work!

On a MIPS machine you'll probably really need to compile these programs from
source, though as you've found there are some RPMs floating around based on
ancient versions.  There were reliable Cobalt PKG or RPMs for ~ PHP3.0.7 and
MySQL 3.22.x, but I don't know if they're still available and they're so old
I'd suggest avoiding anyway.

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