Re: [cobalt-users] Qube3-All-Security-4.0.1-15959.pkg

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg,

on 7/4/03 9:31 AM, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:

>> MySQL appears to be operational, but suddenly phpBB can't access its
>> database.
>
> Are php scripts working at all?

I thought the GUI was predominately built with php.

> I can't swear to it being related, as I installed a number of patches at the
> same time as 15959.pkg, but I had PHP quit working completely (install a
> simply php script which just prints hello world, or phpinfo() or something to
> check.

I have a simple phpinfo.php page and it returns all the php details so I'm
confident that php is working.  I have another machine which is running the
same config, but without the update in question ... I'm presently comparing
the relevant bits to see what has changed.

> As I said, php quit working after the installation of this pkg, but I tracked
> it down to srm.conf being altered - the lines
> 
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> #AddType application/x-httpd-php4 .php3
> #AddType application/x-httpd-php4 .php4
> #AddType application/x-httpd-php4 .php
> #AddType application/x-httpd-php4-source .php4s
> #AddType application/x-httpd-php4-source .php3s
> #AddType application/x-httpd-php4-source .phps
> 
> had all disappeared from srm.conf - they should have been just under the
> comment line:
> 
> # PHP4 (backwards compatible with php3)
> 
> but they had magically vanished.  I reinstated them, restarted apache:
> 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
> 
> and php was functional again.

Although php appears to be working Sun have probably changed something ...
I'll keep looking.

Cheers,  Malcolm