[cgiwrap-users] Using a different PHP with pre-existing cgiwrap?

[Kent R. <in...@ke...>]

I'm working on a shared host (with virtual hosting) that has cgiwrap installed.  Trying to get the PHP scripts to execute a different version of PHP.

I do not have access to server config (httpd.conf, etc).

There are existing binaries on the server for the PHP version I want to use.

I've tried making a cgi wrapper for the PHP scripts, like how fastCGI wrappers are usually constructed:

* .htaccess has

     AddHandler php-wrapper .php
     Action php-wrapper /bin/wrapper.cgi

* wrapper.cgi has this code:

  #!/usr/bin/sh
  
  # without these headers, I get internal server error

  echo "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

  # The combination of variables is what I found would yield the
  # required path to the incoming PHP script to be executed.

     exec /path/to/php-cgi -q ${DOCUMENT_ROOT}${PATH_INFO} ${QUERY_STRING}

I've tried many different variations of the 'exec' line.  Without 'exec', with just '-i' or '-v' as a parameter to php...  But it either has a fatal error or gives me blank output.

The only thing that's yielded any expected results is '-h' parameter to PHP in the 'exec' line.  I get the same help text that I would if I were using the command line.

I've tried recompiling cgiwrap using the new path/to/php, putting the binary in the public_html/bin directory, and changing the Action cgiwrap accordingly, but that resulted in a file not found error because the server concatenated the script path/filename onto the cgiwrap path.

Thanks for any ideas,

Kent

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