php help

[Andres]

Exactly,

It's not working. Verio tells me "our unix system process PHP, however PHP here runs as a CGI" . I'm confused . What should I do?

[Kyleva2204]

Originally posted by Andres
Exactly,

It's not working. Verio tells me "our unix system process PHP, however PHP here runs as a CGI" . I'm confused . What should I do?
either use PHP but rename the file to index.cgi or what ever or use CGI but the extension must be PHP.

[olaf]

This means only that php is running in CGI-Mode. This means nothing to you, start program PHP and use the extensions like everyone here. It's very rare to find a provider who runs php as a module on Apache.

[pyro]

Originally posted by olaf
It's very rare to find a provider who runs php as a module on Apache. I can neither verify nor disprove that, but it would be ironic, as the CGI install of PHP is considered "suicidal".

[olaf]

Of course there are providers, but a lot are using the cgi-mode because its easier to maintain. I got this information from my ISP. Maybe it's not true???

[pyro]

As I said, I can neither prove nor disprove it. I can, however, testify that it is not hard to load PHP in as a module, if you even slightly know what you are doing (I'd hope most hosting providers know how Apache works...). On my testing server, I have PHP running as a module. The process is not that much different from installing it as a CGI binary.

[olaf]

You are totally right its not so difficult. Last time i was looking for a good local provider there was nearly nothing to find.