PHP stopped working :(

[Eric F Crist]

On Nov 20, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Matt Singerman wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a FreeBSD 6.0 system which had PHP4 running perfectly fine  
> on it.
> However, I wanted to install Horde (www.horde) with IMP, which  
> requires IMAP
> support, so I decided to try and recompile PHP using
> /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions, first running make deinstall in
> php4-extensions and php4. At first, this did not work. I checked,  
> and sure
> enough, the old data for the compilation was in /var/db/ports, so I  
> deleted
> it out. Anyway, I ran make and make install in
> /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions without any problems, then I ran  
> make and
> make install in /usr/ports/lang/php4. This is where I first noticed  
> things
> looked a bit weird. It didn't seem like php4 was completely  
> recompiling it;
> that is, it didn't seem to take long enough. But it claimed to have  
> worked
> correctly, so I restarted Apache. Lo and behold, my problems  
> started. First
> off, and this is weird, my test file - a simple file containing only a
> callto phpInfo() - will work in IE, but not in Firefox. Check it out:
>
> http://list.mchgroup.org/test.php
>
> Second, SquirrelMail won't load at all:
>
> http://list.mchgroup.org/squirrelmail/src/login.php
>
>
> I have tried deinstalling and reinstalling PHP countless times now,  
> with no
> results. I checked my httpd.conf file, and all seems okay. Any  
> ideas what
> this could be? I'm very trustrated at this point, and am  
> considering blowing
> away Apache and starting it from scratch :(
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt


Try going to the respective ports directories and type "make clean".


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Eric F Crist
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