Changing PHP's Server API

[phantasmp]

i just tried to compile php with mhash enabled, and now php is running as Server API CGI instead of Apache, i tried to recompile php in WHM, but it's still running as CGI, does any one know how i can fix it so it goes back to Apache?

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[mmkassem]

Originally posted by phantasmp
i just tried to compile php with mhash enabled, and now php is running as Server API CGI instead of Apache, i tried to recompile php in WHM, but it's still running as CGI, does any one know how i can fix it so it goes back to Apache?

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phpsuexec is on by default. You have to use option 6 and uncheck phpsuexec

OR use update Apache in WHM and uncheck phpsuexec

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[phantasmp]

ok, i did that and recompiled, but now whenever i click on a link to a php file, the browser will download the file, i uncommented out

LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so

in the config file, but when i check the syntax i get this error

[Sat Aug 9 00:38:41 2003] [error] Cannot remove module mod_php4.c: not found in module list

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[phantasmp]

nevermind, i fixed it

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[nitromax]

Hi phantasmp,

Would you mind posting what you did to fix this issue? I am having the same problem and haven't figured it out yet.

Thanks in advance...

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[phantasmp]

in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf i uncommented

LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so
and
AddModule mod_php4.c

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[wheimeng]

how do i force PHP to run as a cgi module instead of apache?

[vicos]

Let me Get this straight. Please stop me when I am wrong.

1. Out-of-the-box, CPANEL runs as an APACHE module.

2. If you rebuild APACHE and add PHPSUEXEC support, it (w/o warning) changes PHP to run as a CGI.

3. To get PHP to run as an APACHE module again, I have to uncheck PHPSUEXEC support and rebuild APACHE. I also have to manually edit httpd.conf to uncomment the PHP module lines.

When my server was switched to use PHPSUEXEC the first time, it broke all of the PHP scripts. I had to manually change the file privs on all PHP files for some reason. Is this going to break things again if the process is reversed?