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[nycphp-talk] simplexml, gentoo emerge

Andrew Yochum andrew at digitalpulp.com
Thu Oct 21 10:56:32 EDT 2004


On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:15:45AM -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> Andrew Yochum wrote:
> 
> >I had no problems getting PHP 5 it to work on Gentoo.  Guessing from one
> >of your recent emails, one thing that *might* be key for you is the
> >difference between the php and mod_php ebuilds.  php is the CLI/CGI
> >version of PHP.  mod_php is the Apache module that you setup as the
> >handler for *.php pages served through Apache.  You should be emerging
> >the latter.  Restart Apache after your emerge, too.
> > 
> >
> 
> There are three PHP packages in Portage: php, mod_php, php-cgi

My bad... you're right.  Though you can use PHP as a CGI with just the
php package, though... I have.  I can't say I have any idea whats in the
php-cgi package.

Regards,
Andrew



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