Comments on: How do I get php working in Ubuntu Hoary

Question: How do I get php working in Ubuntu Hoary

outofpaper — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:38:19 -0800

So I upgraded from warty warthog to hoary hedgehog and something broke PHP on my box. Any ideas as to where I should look to fix this. I already have: DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php and AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps in my httpd.conf file.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:13:11 -0800

Can you expand on "broke"?

By: boaz

boaz — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:38:18 -0800

First, you didn't mention either LoadModule or AddModule; are those set up correctly?

Second, this problem description is awfully vague. As cillit bang said, expanding on broke would be a great start. And expanding on "upgraded" would be doubleplusgood.

By: wzcx

wzcx — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:57:34 -0800

I maybe can help with the upgrade part:

#sed -e 's/warty/hoary/g' /etc/apt/sources.list > s.l.tmp && mv s.l.tmp /etc/apt/sources.list
#apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

That was a good day, nothing broke and I am happy with the results. However, I cannot help with PHP at all.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:51:08 -0800

When you say "broke" do you mean PHP doesn't work? Or do you mean broke as in "Apache refuses to start because the PHP module isn't loading" broke?

I've not munged around with Ubuntu myself but in upgrading other Linux boxes I've discovered that I often needed to reinstall the PHP package after doing so. Occasionally there's a package dependency that is mangled due to a seemingly unrelated bit being updated or removed.

If you are not getting an apache start at all, what error are you getting after a failed restart?

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:08:34 -0800

Is there anything interesting in the error log? Do PHP pages get served out as downloads, plain text, what?