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  • Bernard Cosell
    #1

    Forcing Server mode

    I've been through the docs and I'm more than a little confused: I'd
    like to run [some] PHP apps as ordinary CGI programs. I though/hoped
    there'd be a command line switch [that I could put in my shebang line]
    that'd tell PHP to run in SERVER mode, but I couldn't find it... Is
    there a way to do that?

    [meta question: is there a way to get Apache to use mod_php on a
    shebang'ed PHP program... that'd be best, of course..:o)]

    Thanks! /bernie\

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    • Andy Hassall
      #2
      Re: Forcing Server mode

      On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:34:30 -0400, Bernard Cosell <bernie@rev.net > wrote:
      [color=blue]
      >I've been through the docs and I'm more than a little confused: I'd
      >like to run [some] PHP apps as ordinary CGI programs. I though/hoped
      >there'd be a command line switch [that I could put in my shebang line]
      >that'd tell PHP to run in SERVER mode, but I couldn't find it... Is
      >there a way to do that?[/color]

      What is "SERVER mode"?
      [color=blue]
      >[meta question: is there a way to get Apache to use mod_php on a
      >shebang'ed PHP program... that'd be best, of course..:o)][/color]

      Don't think so - it'll output the shebang as literal text.

      --
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        • Bernie Cosell
          #3
          Re: Forcing Server mode

          Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co. uk> wrote:

          } On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:34:30 -0400, Bernard Cosell <bernie@rev.net > wrote:
          }
          } >I've been through the docs and I'm more than a little confused: I'd
          } >like to run [some] PHP apps as ordinary CGI programs. I though/hoped
          } >there'd be a command line switch [that I could put in my shebang line]
          } >that'd tell PHP to run in SERVER mode, but I couldn't find it... Is
          } >there a way to do that?
          }
          } What is "SERVER mode"?

          I'm sure I'm getting the terminology wrong: I have a PHP program that when
          run *by* Apache works fine, but when I run it directly [either from the
          command line or have Apache run it as a CGI program, it won't produce the
          HTTP headers. Even with explicit "header" calls in the program, it won't
          make a legal HTML/HTTP web page [OTOH, if I put in an explicit "print
          "Content-type...etc" it works fine].

          There is something afoot that I don't understand about getting PHP to
          output the HTTP headers [even when called as a CGI]...


          } >[meta question: is there a way to get Apache to use mod_php on a
          } >shebang'ed PHP program... that'd be best, of course..:o)]
          }
          } Don't think so - it'll output the shebang as literal text.

          That doesn't seem to be happening for me:

          $ cat test.php
          #!/usr/bin/php
          <html>
          <body>
          hello
          </body>
          </html>

          $ php test.php
          <html>
          <body>
          hello
          </body>
          </html>

          No 'headers' and such [which is making it REAL hard to debug this PHP/CGI
          program I'm working on], but also no shebang line!

          /Bernie\
          --
          Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers
          bernie@fantasyf arm.com Pearisburg, VA
          --> Too many people, too few sheep <--

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            • Philip Olson
              #4
              Re: Forcing Server mode

              I think you are confusing the CLI with the CGI. CLI does not output
              headers while CGI does. Try php -v to see what you have. And read:

              PHP: Command line usage - Manual
              http://php.net/features.commandline
              Using PHP from the command line


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                • Bernie Cosell
                  #5
                  Re: Forcing Server mode

                  "Philip Olson" <philipolson@gm ail.com> wrote:

                  } I think you are confusing the CLI with the CGI. CLI does not output
                  } headers while CGI does.

                  AHA... !THANKS! I was definitely confused, but in an odd way. This page:

                  } http://php.net/features.commandline

                  Made clear what's going on for me. It hadn't occurred to me that PHP would
                  come with two *DIFFERENT* standalone executable options... I assumed that
                  PHP was just PHP....

                  Indeed: the sysadmins do have the 'cli' version compiled up, and that means
                  that I can't (very easily) use PHP for direct-CGI applications [since the
                  direct-CGI apps will use the executable in /usr/bin, which is the CLI
                  version] or for debugging my web apps. Too bad that's a compile-time
                  option instead of a runtime one -- the web server apparently has "mod_php"
                  hardwired in and that's the only way to get at a "CGI aware" version of PHP
                  in our environment.

                  I'm going to get them to update our PHP install [which gives me a little
                  "say" in how it is configured :o)]... My feeling is that we'll be best
                  served by having the standalone executable be compiled as the 'CGI' version
                  -- my primary interest in using PHP is for web stuff -- we have other
                  tools/languages we can/do use for developing system apps and such...

                  thanks for clearing up this mini-mystery...

                  /Bernie\

                  --
                  Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers
                  bernie@fantasyf arm.com Pearisburg, VA
                  --> Too many people, too few sheep <--

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