[cobalt-users] Cube2 / Apache / PHP4 - Big Trouble in Little Singapore - Pls Help

[Feroze Arif <feroze_arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I was trying to install PHP4 on a cube2 machine.  Since I was new to the
machine I read through the different posts and chose the method outlined
by Michael Ackermann (now I am not blaming you Mike!! :) ).

Okay so I telnetted into the Cube 2 and Since PHP was not installed on
the machine, I installed PHP3 using the rpm available from the Cobalt
ftp site.  That worked smoothly and I ran the phpinfo() test script and
everything was working smoothly.  

With that done then I installed the Flex RPM and when I tried to run
./configure, I wasn't able to locate the APXS script in the /usr/sbin
directory.  So I read the archives again and found that I had to install
ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com//pub/experimental/apache-devel-1.3.3-1C3.mips.rpm
which would give me the APXS script (James Spahr).  I installed this and
this also went smoothly.

Then I was able to run ./Configure and then I ran the make utility but
did not run "make install" as suggested by Micheal.  Instead I copied
the libphp4.so file from the .libs directory into the /usr/lib/apache
directory.  I did the changes to the httpd.conf file and the srm.conf
file as suggested by Micheal.  Then I created a sample script and then I
wanted to stop the httpd daemon and restart it.  But when I ran httpd
stop I got the following message: "Floating Point Exception - core
dumped".  Now I am stumped.  The public website is no longer running and
I can't even get to the admin area.

I would appreciate it very much if somebody could tell me what I did
wrong and how I can rectify it.  Is there anyway in which I can return
the system to the PHP3 state?  However I do want PHP4.  So how do I go
about get everything working properly again.

I hope that the information provided above is sufficient, in case it is
not, please do let me know and I will provide any information you think
is important.

I look forward to hearing from one of you soon.  Otherwise I am going to
be in a big soup since the public website is down!!!!!!

Best Regards
Feroze
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