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SAPI: CGI

configure
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'./configure' 
'--prefix=/usr/local/apps/php-4.0.1pl2'                                       
'--with-mysql=/usr/local/apps/mysql-3.22.32'
'--with-config-file-path=/local/apps/apache/conf/php4.ini'
'--with-iodbc=/usr/local/apps/libiodbc'
'--enable-force-cgi-redirect' 
'--with-imap=../imap-4.7c'
'--with-ldap=/usr/local/apps/openldap' 
'--disable-debug'
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php.ini
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[PHP]

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; About this file ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
; This is the 'optimized', PHP 4-style version of the php.ini-dist file.
; For general information about the php.ini file, please consult the php.ini-dist
; file, included in your PHP distribution.
;
; This file is different from the php.ini-dist file in the fact that it features
; different values for several directives, in order to improve performance, while
; possibly breaking compatibility with the standard out-of-the-box behavior of
; PHP 3.  Please make sure you read what's different, and modify your scripts
; accordingly, if you decide to use this file instead (which is recommended!)
;
; - allow_call_time_pass_reference = Off
;     It's not possible to decide to force a variable to be passed by reference
;     when calling a function.  The PHP 4 style to do this is by making the
;     function require the relevant argument by reference.
; - register_globals = Off
;     Global variables are no longer registered for input data (POST, GET, cookies,
;     environment and other server variables).  Instead of using $foo, you must use
;     $HTTP_POST_VARS["foo"], $HTTP_GET_VARS["foo"], $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["foo"], 
;     $HTTP_ENV_VARS["foo"] or $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["foo"], depending on which kind
;     of input source you're expecting 'foo' to come from.
; - register_argc_argv = Off
;     Disables registration of the somewhat redundant $argv and $argc global
;     variables.
; - magic_quotes_gpc = Off
;     Input data is no longer escaped with slashes so that it can be sent into
;     SQL databases without further manipulation.  Instead, you should use the
;     function addslashes() on each input element you wish to send to a database.
; - variables_order = "GPCS"
;     The environment variables are not hashed into the $HTTP_ENV_VARS[].  To access
;     environment variables, you can use getenv() instead.


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Language Options ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

engine                  =       On      ; Enable the PHP scripting language engine under
Apache
short_open_tag  =       On      ; allow the <? tag.  otherwise, only <?php and <script> tags
are recognized.
asp_tags                =       Off ; allow ASP-style <% %> tags
precision               =       14      ; number of significant digits displayed in floating
point numbers
y2k_compliance  =       Off     ; whether to be year 2000 compliant (will cause problems
with non y2k compliant browsers)
output_buffering        = Off   ; Output buffering allows you to send header lines
(including cookies)
                                                        ; even after you send body content,
in the price of slowing PHP's
                                                        ; output layer a bit.
                                                        ; You can enable output buffering by
in runtime by calling the output
                                                        ; buffering functions, or enable
output buffering for all files
                                                        ; by setting this directive to On.
implicit_flush          = Off   ; Implicit flush tells PHP to tell the output layer to flush
itself
                                                        ; automatically after every output
block.  This is equivalent to
                                                        ; calling the PHP function flush()
after each and every call to print()
                                                        ; or echo() and each and every HTML
block.
                                                        ; Turning this option on has serious
performance implications, and
                                                        ; is generally recommended for
debugging purposes only.
allow_call_time_pass_reference  = Off   ; whether to enable the ability to force arguments
to be 
                                                                                ; passed by
reference at function-call time.  This method
                                                                                ; is
deprecated, and is likely to be unsupported in future
                                                                                ; versions
of PHP/Zend.  The encouraged method of specifying
                                                                                ; which
arguments should be passed by reference is in the
                                                                                ; function
declaration.  You're encouraged to try and
                                                                                ; turn this
option Off, and make sure your scripts work
                                                                                ; properly
with it, to ensure they will work with future
                                                                                ; versions
of the language (you will receive a warning
                                                                                ; each time
you use this feature, and the argument will
                                                                                ; be passed
by value instead of by reference).

; Safe Mode
safe_mode               =       Off
safe_mode_exec_dir      =
safe_mode_allowed_env_vars = PHP_                                       ; Setting certain
environment variables
                                                                                                        ;
may be a potential security breach.
                                                                                                        ;
This directive contains a comma-delimited
                                                                                                        ;
list of prefixes.  In Safe Mode, the
                                                                                                        ;
user may only alter environment
                                                                                                        ;
variables whose names begin with the
                                                                                                        ;
prefixes supplied here.
                                                                                                        ;
By default, users will only be able
                                                                                                        ;
to set environment variables that begin
                                                                                                        ;
with PHP_ (e.g. PHP_FOO=BAR).
                                                                                                        ;
Note:  If this directive is empty, PHP
                                                                                                        ;
will let the user modify ANY environment
                                                                                                        ;
variable!
safe_mode_protected_env_vars = LD_LIBRARY_PATH          ; This directive contains a comma-
                                                                                                        ;
delimited list of environment variables,
                                                                                                        ;
that the end user won't be able to
                                                                                                        ;
change using putenv().
                                                                                                        ;
These variables will be protected
                                                                                                        ;
even if safe_mode_allowed_env_vars is
                                                                                                        ;
set to allow to change them.

; Colors for Syntax Highlighting mode.  Anything that's acceptable in <font color=???> would
work.
highlight.string        =       #DD0000
highlight.comment       =       #FF8000
highlight.keyword       =       #007700
highlight.bg            =       #FFFFFF
highlight.default       =       #0000BB
highlight.html          =       #000000

; Misc
expose_php      =       On              ; Decides whether PHP may expose the fact that it is
installed on the
                                                ; server (e.g., by adding its signature to
the Web server header).
                                                ; It is no security threat in any way, but
it makes it possible
                                                ; to determine whether you use PHP on your
server or not.



;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Resource Limits ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

max_execution_time = 30     ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds (UNIX only)
memory_limit = 8388608          ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Error handling and logging ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; error_reporting is a bit-field.  Or each number up to get desired error reporting level
; E_ALL                         - All errors and warnings
; E_ERROR                       - fatal run-time errors
; E_WARNING                     - run-time warnings (non fatal errors)
; E_PARSE                       - compile-time parse errors
; E_NOTICE                      - run-time notices (these are warnings which often result
from a bug in
;                                         your code, but it's possible that it was
intentional (e.g., using an
;                                         uninitialized variable and relying on the fact
it's automatically
;                                         initialized to an empty string)
; E_CORE_ERROR          - fatal errors that occur during PHP's initial startup
; E_CORE_WARNING        - warnings (non fatal errors) that occur during PHP's initial
startup
; E_COMPILE_ERROR       - fatal compile-time errors
; E_COMPILE_WARNING     - compile-time warnings (non fatal errors)
; E_USER_ERROR          - user-generated error message
; E_USER_WARNING        - user-generated warning message
; E_USER_NOTICE         - user-generated notice message
; Examples:
; error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE                                           ; show all
errors, except for notices
; error_reporting = E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR        ; show only errors
error_reporting =       E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE               ; Show all errors except for notices
display_errors  =       On      ; Print out errors (as a part of the HTML script)
log_errors              =       Off     ; Log errors into a log file (server-specific log,
stderr, or error_log (below))
track_errors    =       Off     ; Store the last error/warning message in $php_errormsg
(boolean)
;error_prepend_string = "<font color=ff0000>"   ; string to output before an error message
;error_append_string = "</font>"                ; string to output after an error message
;error_log      =       filename        ; log errors to specified file
;error_log      =       syslog          ; log errors to syslog (Event Log on NT, not valid
in Windows 95)
warn_plus_overloading   =       Off             ; warn if the + operator is used with
strings


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Data Handling ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
variables_order         =       "GPCS"  ; This directive describes the order in which PHP
registers
                                                                ; GET, POST, Cookie,
Environment and Built-in variables (G, P,
                                                                ; C, E & S respectively,
often referred to as EGPCS or GPC).
                                                                ; Registration is done from
left to right, newer values override
                                                                ; older values.
register_globals        =       Off             ; Whether or not to register the EGPCS
variables as global
                                                                ; variables.  You may want
to turn this off if you don't want
                                                                ; to clutter your scripts'
global scope with user data.  This makes
                                                                ; most sense when coupled
with track_vars - in which case you can
                                                                ; access all of the GPC
variables through the $HTTP_*_VARS[],
                                                                ; variables.
register_argc_argv      =       Off             ; This directive tells PHP whether to
declare the argv&argc
                                                                ; variables (that would
contain the GET information).  If you
                                                                ; don't use these variables,
you should turn it off for
                                                                ; increased performance
track_vars                      =       On              ; enable the $HTTP_*_VARS[] arrays,
where * is one of
                                                                ; ENV, POST, GET, COOKIE or
SERVER.
gpc_order                       =       "GPC"   ; This directive is deprecated.  Use
variables_order instead.

; Magic quotes
magic_quotes_gpc        =       Off             ; magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie
data
magic_quotes_runtime=   Off             ; magic quotes for runtime-generated data, e.g. data
from SQL, from exec(), etc.
magic_quotes_sybase     =       Off             ; Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape '
with '' instead of \')

; automatically add files before or after any PHP document
auto_prepend_file       =
auto_append_file        =

; As of 4.0b4, PHP always outputs a character encoding by default in
; the Content-type: header.  To disable sending of the charset, simply
; set it to be empty.
; PHP's built-in default is text/html
default_mimetype = "text/html"
;default_charset = "iso-8859-1"

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Paths and Directories ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
include_path    =                   ; UNIX: "/path1:/path2"  Windows: "\path1;\path2"
doc_root                =                                       ; the root of the php pages,
used only if nonempty
user_dir                =                                       ; the directory under which
php opens the script using /~username, used only if nonempty
;upload_tmp_dir =                       ; temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will
use system default if not specified)
upload_max_filesize = 2097152       ; 2 Meg default limit on file uploads
extension_dir   =       ./                              ; directory in which the loadable
extensions (modules) reside


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Dynamic Extensions ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; if you wish to have an extension loaded automaticly, use the
; following syntax:  extension=modulename.extension
; for example, on windows,
; extension=msql.dll
; or under UNIX,
; extension=msql.so
; Note that it should be the name of the module only, no directory information 
; needs to go here.  Specify the location of the extension with the extension_dir directive
above.


;Windows Extensions
;extension=php_mysql.dll
;extension=php_nsmail.dll
;extension=php_calendar.dll
;extension=php_dbase.dll
;extension=php_filepro.dll
;extension=php_gd.dll
;extension=php_dbm.dll
;extension=php_mssql.dll
;extension=php_zlib.dll
;extension=php_filepro.dll
;extension=php_imap4r2.dll
;extension=php_ldap.dll
;extension=php_crypt.dll
;extension=php_msql2.dll
;extension=php_odbc.dll

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Module Settings ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[Syslog]
define_syslog_variables = Off   ; Whether or not to define the various syslog variables,
                                                                ; e.g. $LOG_PID, $LOG_CRON,
etc.  Turning it off is a
                                                                ; good idea
performance-wise.  In runtime, you can define
                                                                ; these variables by calling
define_syslog_variables()


[mail function]
SMTP                    =       localhost                       ;for win32 only
sendmail_from   =       me@localhost.com        ;for win32 only
;sendmail_path  =                                               ;for unix only, may supply
arguments as well (default is sendmail -t)

[Debugger]
debugger.host   =       localhost
debugger.port   =       7869
debugger.enabled        =       False

[Logging]
; These configuration directives are used by the example logging mechanism.
; See examples/README.logging for more explanation.
;logging.method    = db
;logging.directory = /path/to/log/directory

[SQL]
sql.safe_mode   =       Off

[ODBC]
;uodbc.default_db               =       Not yet implemented
;uodbc.default_user             =       Not yet implemented
;uodbc.default_pw               =       Not yet implemented
uodbc.allow_persistent  =       On      ; allow or prevent persistent links
uodbc.check_persistent  =       On      ; check that a connection is still validbefore reuse
uodbc.max_persistent    =       -1      ; maximum number of persistent links. -1 means no
limit
uodbc.max_links                 =       -1      ; maximum number of links (persistent+non
persistent). -1 means no limit
uodbc.defaultlrl        =       4096    ; Handling of LONG fields. Returns number of bytes
to variables, 0 means passthru
uodbc.defaultbinmode    =       1       ; Handling of binary data. 0 means passthru, 1
return as is, 2 convert to char
; See the documentation on odbc_binmode and odbc_longreadlen for an explanation of
uodbc.defaultlrl
; and uodbc.defaultbinmode

[MySQL]
mysql.allow_persistent  =       On      ; allow or prevent persistent link
mysql.max_persistent    =       -1      ; maximum number of persistent links. -1 means no
limit
mysql.max_links                 =       -1      ; maximum number of links (persistent+non
persistent).  -1 means no limit
mysql.default_port              =               ; default port number for mysql_connect().
If unset,
                                                                ; mysql_connect() will use
the $MYSQL_TCP_PORT, or the mysql-tcp
                                                                ; entry in /etc/services, or
the compile-time defined MYSQL_PORT
                                                                ; (in that order).  Win32
will only look at MYSQL_PORT.
mysql.default_host              =               ; default host for mysql_connect() (doesn't
apply in safe mode)
mysql.default_user              =               ; default user for mysql_connect() (doesn't
apply in safe mode)
mysql.default_password  =               ; default password for mysql_connect() (doesn't
apply in safe mode)
                                                                ; Note that this is
generally a *bad* idea to store passwords
                                                                ; in this file.  *Any* user
with PHP access can run
                                                                ; 'echo
cfg_get_var("mysql.default_password")' and reveal that
                                                                ; password!  And of course,
any users with read access to this
                                                                ; file will be able to
reveal the password as well.

[mSQL]
msql.allow_persistent   =       On      ; allow or prevent persistent link
msql.max_persistent             =       -1      ; maximum number of persistent links. -1
means no limit
msql.max_links                  =       -1      ; maximum number of links (persistent+non
persistent).  -1 means no limit

[PostgresSQL]
pgsql.allow_persistent  =       On      ; allow or prevent persistent link
pgsql.max_persistent    =       -1      ; maximum number of persistent links. -1 means no
limit
pgsql.max_links                 =       -1      ; maximum number of links (persistent+non
persistent).  -1 means no limit

[Sybase]
sybase.allow_persistent =       On      ; allow or prevent persistent link
sybase.max_persistent   =       -1      ; maximum number of persistent links. -1 means no
limit
sybase.max_links                =       -1      ; maximum number of links (persistent+non
persistent).  -1 means no limit
;sybase.interface_file  =       "/usr/sybase/interfaces"
sybase.min_error_severity       =       10      ; minimum error severity to display
sybase.min_message_severity     =       10      ; minimum message severity to display
sybase.compatability_mode       = Off   ; compatability mode with old versions of PHP 3.0.
                                                                        ; If on, this will
cause PHP to automatically assign types to results
                                                                        ; according to their
Sybase type, instead of treating them all as
                                                                        ; strings.  This
compatability mode will probably not stay around
                                                                        ; forever, so try
applying whatever necessary changes to your code,
                                                                        ; and turn it off.

[Sybase-CT]
sybct.allow_persistent  =       On              ; allow or prevent persistent link
sybct.max_persistent    =       -1              ; maximum number of persistent links. -1
means no limit
sybct.max_links                 =       -1              ; maximum number of links
(persistent+non persistent).  -1 means no limit
sybct.min_server_severity       =       10      ; minimum server message severity to display
sybct.min_client_severity       =       10      ; minimum client message severity to display

[bcmath]
bcmath.scale    =       0       ; number of decimal digits for all bcmath functions

[browscap]
;browscap       =       extra/browscap.ini

[Informix]
ifx.default_host                =               ; default host for ifx_connect() (doesn't
apply in safe mode)
ifx.default_user                =               ; default user for ifx_connect() (doesn't
apply in safe mode)
ifx.default_password            =               ; default password for ifx_connect()
(doesn't apply in safe mode)
ifx.allow_persistent            =       On      ; allow or prevent persistent link
ifx.max_persistent              =       -1      ; maximum number of persistent links. -1
means no limit
ifx.max_links                   =       -1      ; maximum number of links (persistent+non
persistent).  -1 means no limit
ifx.textasvarchar               =       0       ; if set on, select statements return the
contents of a text blob instead of it's id
ifx.byteasvarchar               =       0       ; if set on, select statements return the
contents of a byte blob instead of it's id
ifx.charasvarchar               =       0       ; trailing blanks are stripped from
fixed-length char columns. May help the life
                                                ; of Informix SE users. 
ifx.blobinfile                  =       0       ; if set on, the contents of text&byte blobs
are dumped to a file instead of
                                                ; keeping them in memory
ifx.nullformat                  =       0       ; NULL's are returned as empty strings,
unless this is set to 1. In that case,
                                                ; NULL's are returned as string 'NULL'.

[Session]
session.save_handler      = files   ; handler used to store/retrieve data
session.save_path         = /tmp    ; argument passed to save_handler
                                    ; in the case of files, this is the
                                    ; path where data files are stored
session.use_cookies       = 1       ; whether to use cookies
session.name              = PHPSESSID  
                                    ; name of the session
                                    ; is used as cookie name
session.auto_start        = 0       ; initialize session on request startup
session.cookie_lifetime   = 0       ; lifetime in seconds of cookie
                                    ; or if 0, until browser is restarted
session.cookie_path       = /       ; the path the cookie is valid for
session.cookie_domain     =         ; the domain the cookie is valid for
session.serialize_handler = php     ; handler used to serialize data
                                    ; php is the standard serializer of PHP
session.gc_probability    = 1       ; percentual probability that the 
                                    ; 'garbage collection' process is started
                                    ; on every session initialization
session.gc_maxlifetime    = 1440    ; after this number of seconds, stored
                                    ; data will be seen as 'garbage' and
                                    ; cleaned up by the gc process
session.referer_check     =         ; check HTTP Referer to invalidate 
                                    ; externally stored URLs containing ids
session.entropy_length    = 0       ; how many bytes to read from the file
session.entropy_file      =         ; specified here to create the session id
; session.entropy_length    = 16
; session.entropy_file      = /dev/urandom
session.cache_limiter     = nocache ; set to {nocache,private,public} to
                                    ; determine HTTP caching aspects
session.cache_expire      = 180     ; document expires after n minutes

[MSSQL]
;extension=php_mssql.dll
mssql.allow_persistent          =       On      ; allow or prevent persistent link
mssql.max_persistent            =       -1      ; maximum number of persistent links. -1
means no limit
mssql.max_links                         =       -1      ; maximum number of links
(persistent+non persistent).  -1 means no limit
mssql.min_error_severity        =       10      ; minimum error severity to display
mssql.min_message_severity      =       10      ; minimum message severity to display
mssql.compatability_mode        = Off   ; compatability mode with old versions of PHP 3.0.

[Assertion]
;assert.active                          =       Off     ; assert(expr); does nothing by
default
;assert.warning                         =       On      ; issue a PHP warning for each
failed assertion.
;assert.bail                            =       Off     ; don't bail out by default.
;assert.callback                        =       0       ; user-function to be called if an
assertion fails.
;assert.quiet_eval                      =       0       ; eval the expression with current
error_reporting(). set to true if you want error_reporting(0) around the eval().

; Local Variables:
; tab-width: 4
; End:
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Is this still happening with latest snapshot from http://snaps.php.net ??

--Jani

User reported problem solved in php4.0.3. Closed.

--Jani