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

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Feroze Arif" <feroze_arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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!! :) ).

I am not familiar with Michael Ackermann's instructions, but if you backed
up the Apache binary (/usr/sbin/httpd) you can copy it back to that location
and restart Apache until you get the problem solved.  If you didn't, you now
know to *always* backup files before upgrading them.

> 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".

> 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?

It's hard to tell what you did since you just mention names of people whose
instructions you borrowed.  I've been on these lists since 1999 and it's
hard to remember every post out of the tens of thousands so far.  <grin>  I
think you installed a new Apache binary at /usr/sbin/httpd so if you don't
have the old one you have a problem.  Perhaps someone else with a

> However I do want PHP4.

Yes.  There's no reason anyone should be running PHP3 now.  If your
programming in PHP you're missing out in a lot of new features available in
PHP4 and if you're installing programs in scripts pretty soon there will be
none you can run since more and more are written for PHP4 and can't run in
PHP3.

> So how do I go
> about get everything working properly again.

Someone posted instructions for installing PHP4 into Apache 1.3.x binary on
this list somewhere between April 22 and 26 if you want to search the
archives for it.  I'm pretty sure the words "Apache" and "RaQ2" were in the
subject.  The RaQ2 and Qube2 both run on the mips architecture and what
works for the RaQ2 should work for the Qube2.

> 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.

If you continue to have problems it will help if you post the steps you
followed.

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