[cgiwrap-users] trying to emulate a nice php-cgiwrap install...

[jeff b. <soi...@sg...>]

A friend of mine has his site hosted by a company that has a very nice
php-cgiwrap setup. I'm trying to emulate it but can't figure out how they
did it.  This is how it works:

PHP runs normally from their binary install unwrapped.  However, if you want
your scripts wrapped then you can compile your own php binary and put it in
your cgi-bin.  This is done with the
options --enable-discard-path, --with-config-file-path=<local dir>
and --enable-force-cgi-redirect at the minimum.  Then you copy that php
binary to your cgi-bin giving it the .cgi extension.

Then in the folders where you want the php wrapped you add .htaccess files
with:

Action application/x-httpd-phpx /cgi-sys/php-cgiwrap/USERNAME/php.cgi
AddType application/x-httpd-phpx .php <etc>

Then you can call your scripts normally from any folder (governed by the
.htaccess file) and they don't have to have the #!<path-to-php> in them nor
do they have to be in the cgi-bin and yet they are wrapped.

I've been trying to emulate this on my server and think I have a few of the
components down but obviously not all as it's not working yet.

This is what I've done:

1) patched cgiwrap-3.7.1 source with the php patch by Piotr Klaban
(http://www.klaban.torun.pl/patches/cgiwrap/)

2) compiled my own php with the following options:

./configure --without-gd \
--with-zlib \
--without-mysql \
--with-config-file-path=/home \
--disable-debug \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-force-cgi-redirect \
--enable-discard-path

3) make (php)

4) copied php.ini-dist into /home/php.ini and php into
/home/USERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/php.cgi

5) compiled cgiwrap-3.7.1 with:

./configure --with-httpd-user=apache \
--with-local-doc-url=<mydocs> \
--with-local-contact-email=root@localhost \
--with-install-dir=/var/www/cgi-sys \
--with-php=/home/USERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/php.cgi

6) make, make install (cgiwrap)

7) added the .htaccess file in the root of the USERNAME's webserver of:

Action application/x-httpd-phpx /cgi-sys/php-cgiwrap/USERNAME/php.cgi
AddType application/x-httpd-phpx .php .php3 .php4 .phtml

After doing all that I test my cgiwrap stuff on .cgi files and there's no
problems.

But when I test it on php stuff I get the following parse errors on a php
file that only has <?php phpinfo(); ?> in it:

-----------------
Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=4) state=1 in
/home/USERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/php4-12.cgi on line 2851

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in
/home/USERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/php4-12.cgi on line 2852

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=4) state=1 in
/home/USERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/php4-12.cgi on line 2852

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=4) state=1 in
/home/USERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/php4-12.cgi on line 2853

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=27) state=1 in
/home/USERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/php4-12.cgi on line 2854

Parse error: parse error in /home/USERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/php4-12.cgi
on line 2854
-----------------

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

I know this seems more like a php question but i'm hoping someone in
cgiwrap-users has come up against this and can help since it is a problem
created by trying to wrap php in a special way.

Thanks,

Jeff