[pmwiki-users] more on fedora 5 / pmwikiserv problems

[Lindsay Todd]

Well, maybe if I post my findings, it will help another novice pmwiki 
user...

As I'm sure was obvious to most real PHP programmers, distributions with 
PHP 5 often have both "php" and "php-cgi" as script interpreters.  Older 
distributions only had "php", but with the functionality of the newer 
"php-cgi".

So the solution to this problem is to change pmwikiserv to use "php-cgi" 
on Linux distributions that have it, and run "php" otherwise.  With that 
done, it works quite well on Fedora Core 5.

Lindsay Todd wrote:
> I reported the other day the problems I have had running pmwikiserv on 
> my Fedora Core 5 system (PHP 5.1.6).  I am still not a PHP hacker, but 
> I've delved a bit further into the problem, and maybe someone can give 
> me a bit of help.
>
> The symptom was when I opened http://localhost/wiki, I saw what looked 
> like the html file with the top several lines chopped out.
>
> Adding some echo statements to ProcessResponse, I discovered that the 
> regexp was splitting the response at a blank line.  This is supposed to 
> be the division between the header and the body -- but there was no header!
>
> If I type:  php pmwiki.php and pipe through more, I see that HTML file, 
> but no header.  If I do the same on a RHEL-4 system, I see the 
> Content-type and X-Powered-By headers, followed by a blank line, 
> followed by the HTML body.
>
> Indeed, if I start up php on my Fedora Core 5 system, Control-d to exit, 
> there is no output.  Do the same on the RHEL-4 system, and headers 
> appear, followed by the blank line.
>
> OK, what is a portable way to make sure PHP displays these headers?
>
> /Lindsay
>
>   


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