eselect doesnt work with php5 [solved]

SHY · Last edited by SHY on Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:24 pm; edited 1 time in total

ive installed things in this way:

1. unmasked everything necessary to successfully install dev-lang/php4*
2. installed dev-lang/php4* (including eselect)
3. installed additional packages such as DBG or sqlite

everything worked as expected (im running my localhost development hideout on apache2) but then i realized that having php5 as well could bring in some more testing possibilities for my application, so i googled out some info about installing php5 and php4 on the same machine and swithing between each other using eselect and i found this link:

http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/andreas.korthaus/gentoo/php-upgrading.html

so after reading it out, ive emerged dev-lang/php and php5 was installed without any problems. the thing is that after i "eselect php set php5", everytime i call for example phpinfo(), it shows im using php4 even tho the "eselect php show" displays php5 as the chosen version and "stat /usr/bin/php" links to the proper php5 executable.. do i have to reemerge something to make it work as expected or have i just missed some essential setting ? id appreciate any kind of help.

thanks in advance.

SHY

llongi · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:39 pm Post subject:

phpinfo() in your Apache has nothing to do with /usr/bin/php. Apache uses mod_php normally, thus the Apache2 SAPI, /usr/bin/php is the commandline executable and uses the CLI SAPI, so if one is PHP5, the 2nd doesn't necessarily need to be. To also have PHP5 in your Apache, edit /etc/conf.d/apache2 and change -D PHP4 to -D PHP5 (you can't have both!) and restart your Apache, phpinfo() should now report PHP5.
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SHY · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject:

amazing, works great

thanks a lot.

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