Installing php4 on FreeBSD

pkg_add doesn't seem to work well

[ShawnR]

A wonderful good evening to you all from wintery Sydney!

I am hoping someone can help me...

After installing Apache 2 on a FreeBSD system, I used FreeBSD's pkg_add to install php4, but it seems that there is some dependency, so this results in Apache 1.3 being installed, but I'd prefer to run Apache 2.

Any advice or recommendations?

Thanks
Shawn

[Duckula]

Stay with Apache 1.3?

I haven't checked lately, but a couple months ago PHP was precisely the reason to not upgrade to Apache 2; some stability issues.

[drbrain]

Use the ports!

cd /usr/ports/www/mod_php4

make -DWITH_APACHE2 install distclean

The packages are compiled for the common case, wthich is still Apache 1.3.

I love the ports, they're beautiful. To keep them up-to-date, modify your /etc/make.conf to point to a CVSup server near you, run make update in /usr/ports and install sysutils/portupgrade. That makes upgrading your packages as easy as "portupgrade portname" and installing as easy as "portupgrade -N portname". You can even upgrade everything installed and all of its dependencies easily with portupgrade.

[ShawnR]

Thanks guys

Duckula, do you know what the stability issues were?

Thanks
Shawn

[Duckula]

Hmmm... I think it had to do with the multithreading of Apache 2, and PHP not being thread safe or something like that. But it has probably been fixed by now.