This is actually about 4.3.0-pre2 ( I haven't tried pre1 ).

PHP was configured with:

--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --prefix=/usr/local/php --without-mysql
--with-pgsql --with-gd --with-openssl --with-zlib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-bz2 -enable-ftp --enable-bcmath

(It failed to find libjpeg and libpng in /usr/lib without the relevant options above. )

I manually added:

LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so

and:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

to httpd.conf, APXS getting the fromer wrong, though I note that 'make install' with PHP 4.2.3 and Apache 2 does do the right thing.

'make test' resulted in two failures:

FAIL OpenSSL private key functions [ext/openssl/tests/001.phpt]
FAIL Testing randomization of shuffle() and str_shuffle(). [ext/standard/tests/strings/004.phpt]

I wouldn't have thought, but don't know, that these are not relevant to my problem.

Anyway, the main problem is that .php files are not being parsed when served, my browser prompting me to save the file instead. The browser informs me that it is a file of type application/x-httpd-php, so it seems the AddType directive is working.

It looks as if Apache is loading the PHP module:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:22:51 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.43 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.43 OpenSSL/0.9.6e PHP/4.3.0-pre2

and fuser reports that libphp4.so is held open by each of the Apache processes.

The Apache configuration is almost as the supplied default, but with two virtual servers enabled. I've tested without virtual servers and the same problem occurs.

PHP 4.2.3 with the same Apache configuration does work, other than the known problem of the segmentation faults on trying to make the server re-read its configuration.