Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:51:59 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, Joe Holden <joe@joeholden.co.uk>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: firefox, mozilla won't display PHP (Was: Re: firefox, extensions, and *.php pages) Message-ID: <20070203205158.GA94970@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <006b01c747b8$ab700bb0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20070203070829.GA15799@thought.org> <006b01c747b8$ab700bb0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:28:06AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org> > To: "Joe Holden" <joe@joeholden.co.uk> > Cc: "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org>; "FreeBSD Mailing List" > <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:08 PM > Subject: Re: firefox, mozilla won't display PHP (Was: Re: firefox, > extensions,and *.php pages) > > > > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:38:10AM +0000, Joe Holden wrote: > > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > >On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 04:53:39PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well, the fact that my trying seever firefox addson and the > > > > failure of firefox and mozilla to display my PHP files just > > > > happened to be co-incident. As of this writing, none of my > > > > browsers displays my php pages. I am rebuilding php5; php4 > > > > refuses to build. > > > > > > > > If anybody knows if I ought to be building php4, please let me > > > > know. --I've surfed the web looking for answers; so far, > > > > nothing-works.... > > > > > > > > (*******) > > > > > > > >> "You have chosen to open > > > >> > > > >> [ .... ] (blank) > > > >> > > > >> which is a: appplication/x-httpd-php > > > >> from http://www.thought.org > > > >> > > > >> What should Firefox do with this file?" > > > >> > > > >> The one of three options *not* greyed out is: > > > >> > > > >> (*) Save to Disk > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> What's going on? And/or: how did I shoot myself in the foot? > > > >> > > > >> thanks for any insights; a couple of these addon are useful... > > > >> > > > >> gary > > > >> > > > > > > You've added AddType lines to config, but the module is missing, or > > > isn't being loaded presumably. > > > > > > > > Right; after a couple hours tracing, I find that for some reason, > > devel/libtool15 says that regex/regcomp.lo isn't valid. > > > > > > <output> > > root@sage:/usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.4.4# k > > "Makefile", line 496: warning: duplicate script for target > > "main/internal_functions.lo" ignored > > /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/libtool --preserve-dup-deps --mode=link cc > > -export-dynamic -pipe -g -Wall regex/regcomp.lo regex/regexec.lo > > > > [[ ... ] > > > > Zend/zend_ini.lo Zend/zend_qsort.lo Zend/zend_multibyte.lo > > Zend/zend_strtod.lo Zend/zend_canary.lo Zend/zend_execute.lo > > sapi/cgi/libfcgi/fcgi_stdio.lo sapi/cgi/libfcgi/fcgiapp.lo > > sapi/cgi/libfcgi/os_unix.lo sapi/cgi/cgi_main.lo sapi/cgi/getopt.lo > > main/internal_functions.lo -lcrypt -lcrypt -lm -lcrypt -lcrypt -o > > sapi/cgi/php > > libtool: link: `regex/regcomp.lo' is not a valid libtool object > > *** Error code 1 > > > > </output> > > > > I have php4 and apache running on other servers, and there, > > when I point mozilla at a php file, it works, of course.. > > --So: nothing to do with the "extensions"; for unknown reasons, > > php4 will not build. > > > > Has anybody else experienced this snufu?? > > > > Yes. I assume your building php from the ports? > > What you have to do is do a make deinstall in -all- the php4 > directories, as well as apache, then cvsupdate your ports, > then do a make install to put everything back together. > > If you don't go through the correct make deinstall procedure and you > just try overwriting stuff you will end up with a mess. That is > probably what happened here. > Thanks for the clue!! Now, is there any way to automagically deinstalll all php4 ports? And:: is php5 worth going for? From what I've seen of php5, I Like it. gary > Ted > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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