Multiple PHP installations

[Jean-Marc Molina]

Hello,

OS : Windows 2000 Pro
Apache : 1.3.29
PHP : 4.3.6

From the install.txt file :

quote:
"Usually you would just copy it over to %SYSTEMROOT%\Sy stem32.
But if you want to have multiple PHP installations (for
whatever reason) this is a bad idea. For this circumstance the
safest thing is to let php4ts.dll reside in the same directory
where php4apache.dll is loaded from (see point 2 above)."

So I wonder how I can have at least 2 PHP installations on a single
computer, using a single Apache server.

For example I have 2 domains, http://localhost and
http://localhost_magic_quotes_off. The first one would use the default
php.ini file, the second one should use a php.ini file where the option
magic_quotes_gp c is set to Off :

quote:
"; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gp c = Off"

How can I make Apache/php4apache.dll use the second php.ini file when the
second domain is used ? As it seems Apache only get this configuration file
from default paths, I don't know how to force it to get it from somewhere
else, specially when it comes to multiple PHP installations :

quote:
"Where do I have to put the php.ini ?
The php.ini files is only searched in two places:
1) in your Apache installation directory (e.g. c:\apache\apach e)
2) in your %SYSTEMROOT% directory."

I decided to place the first one in the Apache installation directory.

I couldn't find anything about multiple installations in the manual.

JM

[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: Multiple PHP installations

*** Jean-Marc Molina wrote/escribió (Fri, 7 May 2004 18:15:19 +0200):[color=blue]
> So I wonder how I can have at least 2 PHP installations on a single
> computer, using a single Apache server.
>
> For example I have 2 domains, http://localhost and
> http://localhost_magic_quotes_off. The first one would use the default
> php.ini file, the second one should use a php.ini file where the option
> magic_quotes_gp c is set to Off :[/color]

It sounds much easier to just have different virtual hosts with different
configs:

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /home/foo/htdocs
ServerName foo.com
php_admin_flag magic_quotes_gp c on
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /home/blah/htdocs
ServerName blah.com
php_admin_flag magic_quotes_gp c off
</VirtualHost>

(I haven't tested it with magic_quotes_gp c directive)


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[Tim Van Wassenhove]

Re: Multiple PHP installations

In article <409bb5f2$0$319 47$626a14ce@new s.free.fr>, Jean-Marc Molina wrote:[color=blue]
> For example I have 2 domains, http://localhost and
> http://localhost_magic_quotes_off. The first one would use the default
> php.ini file, the second one should use a php.ini file where the option
> magic_quotes_gp c is set to Off :[/color]

A workaround:

<Virtualhost other>
php_value magic_quotes_gp c off
</Virtualhost>

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[Jean-Marc Molina]

Re: Multiple PHP installations

Alvaro, Tim,

Thanks !

I wasn't able to set the option from the Apache configuration file but using
a .htaccess file, it works.

..htaccess :
php_flag magic_quotes_gp c off

I don't know why it doesn't work from the httpd.conf file. Maybe because the
option has to be set in a <IfModule> tag... I tried to set it for my
VirtualHost.

Shame on me for not finding the info in the manual, I thought I knew it like
my own house :(.

Shame on me, shame on me,
JM

"Tim Van Wassenhove" <euki@pi.be> wrote in message
news:2g1t6rF3gg t0U1@uni-berlin.de...[color=blue]
> In article <409bb5f2$0$319 47$626a14ce@new s.free.fr>, Jean-Marc Molina[/color]
wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
> > For example I have 2 domains, http://localhost and
> > http://localhost_magic_quotes_off. The first one would use the default
> > php.ini file, the second one should use a php.ini file where the option
> > magic_quotes_gp c is set to Off :[/color]
>
> A workaround:
>
> <Virtualhost other>
> php_value magic_quotes_gp c off
> </Virtualhost>
>
> --
> http://home.mysth.be/~timvw[/color]

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

Re: Multiple PHP installations

In article <409bc7ac$0$319 31$626a14ce@new s.free.fr>, Jean-Marc Molina wrote:[color=blue]
> Alvaro, Tim,
>
> Thanks !
>
> I wasn't able to set the option from the Apache configuration file but using
> a .htaccess file, it works.
>
> .htaccess :
> php_flag magic_quotes_gp c off
>
> I don't know why it doesn't work from the httpd.conf file. Maybe because the
> option has to be set in a <IfModule> tag... I tried to set it for my
> VirtualHost.[/color]

Have you restarted (so that the configuration files are reloaded) the
webserver after those changes?

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[Jean-Marc Molina]

Re: Multiple PHP installations

Hi Tim,
[color=blue]
> Have you restarted (so that the configuration files are reloaded) the[/color]
webserver after those changes?

Of course I did :). Anyway in this case I think it's better for me to stick
with the .htaccess file.

Thanks again for all your help, last time I asked, no one answered, I think
it was 2 or 3 years. Where were you ? ^^'. You won't believe it but my
solution was to rebuilt PHP from scratch!

JM