Boy did I have a hard time getting PHP and Apache to work under Cygwin. I had to set the environment up for a class project so first I did what any reasonably lazy person would do–check for a Cygwin package. I only saw the Apache package but I needed PHP too so I decided to hold off on installing it. So next I did what any reasonably lazy person would do next–Google for a page posted by someone who did the work already so I wouldn’t have to.
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\nAfter browsing through numerous pages of Google results, I couldn’t come up with anything for the search terms ‘cygwin apache php’. Of course now that I just re-searched for those terms, the page I ended up with at the end of my journey is the fifth result. More on that later.<\/p>\n
Instead, this site (Index of \/support\/cygwin-packages\/apache-modules\/mod_php4<\/a>) caught my eye. It was the eighth result and I thought to myself, “OMG, there’s a package available!” So off I go to download and install the package. I installed the Apache and Apache-PHP packages. Now I might not be the most experienced Cygwin user so maybe I didn’t install the package correctly because it didn’t check for any of the dependencies. After looking at the setup.hint file, I installed the required packages and I thought I was set (cygwin apache libgdbm openssl bzip2 zlib gettext libxml2 postgresql libbz2_0 libbz2_1 rebase).<\/p>\n To start Apache, I ran ‘\/usr\/sbin\/apachectl start’ and I saw that it started the http daemon. Woohoo! I made a test PHP file in \/var\/www\/htdocs but it wasn’t being parsed. What gives? I looked at \/etc\/apache\/httpd.conf for the appropriate PHP module lines but they weren’t there. Then I realized that installing both the Apache and Apache-PHP packages at the same time must not have been a good idea. I reinstalled the Apache-PHP package and it made the appropriate changes to the httpd.conf file. Now to restart the daemon…<\/p>\n Hrm? Being the reasonably lazy guy that I am, I set off to Google in search for an answer. The results were mostly mailing list archives for people getting the error message without a resolution. Some people suggested rebasing the DLL so I tried that. Nope, same error. Other people suggested running ‘cygcheck libphp4.dll’ to check for any dependency problems. I did that and received some ‘could not find something.dll’ errors. So I tried to look for them and also for any packages which might have them. I couldn’t find cyghttpd.dll or cygcrypto.dll and I googled for the packages containing them but it seems that I already had them (Apache and OpenSSL). So I just made copies of libhttpd.dll and cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll to the respective missing files and hoped that the problem would be solved. I ran cygcheck and everything was okay so I tried to start up http daemon again. Same error.<\/p>\n I decided to rethink the strategy to take. How about compiling PHP myself? So I downloaded the PHP source files<\/a> and looked at the INSTALL file. I decided to just try ‘.\/configure’ without any parameters first because I didn’t want to deal with them (read: lazy). It said it couldn’t find lex. D’oh, another package to install (flex). Then I ran configure again and it started doing it’s thing.<\/p>\n While configure was running, I decided to go back to my Google search results and see if I could find any useful information. Then I stumbled upon this page (Cygwin\/apache\/php – discypus<\/a>). The Google page summary was in Japanese and what’s a discypus? Who knows, let’s click on the link! Even though I’ve only had four quarters of Japanese and couldn’t read any of the kanji, I understood “Apache 1.3.29-2 + PHP 4.3.8 (2004-07-26)”. I scrolled down a little more and, “OMG! PHP compiling instructions for Cygwin!” Since this information was on a Japanese site, I cancelled my configure immediately. I followed the instructions to a T and ended up with a working Apache with PHP (minus the MySQL which I didn’t really need anyway). The Discypus wiki<\/a> is a goldmine of Cygwin information (and more!). Moral of the story? Trust any Japanese sites you visit.<\/p>\n Here are the instructions with some translatations. All credit goes to Discypus.<\/p>\n 1. Required Cygwin packages (in addition to the ones mentioned above):<\/p>\n 2. Extract the PHP source files:<\/p>\n 3. Run configure:<\/p>\n 4. Modifying the Makefile:<\/p>\n 5. Run make:<\/p>\n 6. Compile the PHP libraries:<\/p>\n 7. Run make install:<\/p>\n 8. 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\n$ grep -A20 '@ apache' setup.ini | grep require\r\nrequires: cygwin crypt libgdbm4\r\n\r\n$ cygcheck -cd cygwin apache crypt libgdbm4\r\nCygwin Package Information\r\nPackage Version\r\napache 1.3.29-2\r\ncrypt 1.1-1\r\ncygwin 1.5.10-3\r\nlibgdbm4 1.8.3-7<\/pre>\n
$ cd \/usr\/local\/src\/php\r\n\r\n$ tar jxvf php-4.3.8.tar.bz2\r\nphp-4.3.8\/\r\nphp-4.3.8\/ext\/\r\n:\r\nphp-4.3.8\/README.UNIX-BUILD-SYSTEM\r\nphp-4.3.8\/php4.spec.in<\/pre>\n
$ cd php-4.3.8\r\n\r\n$ .\/configure --with-apxs=\/usr\/sbin\/apxs --without-mysql --enable-mbstring\r\ncreating cache .\/config.cache\r\nchecking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin\r\n:\r\ncreating main\/internal_functions_cli.c\r\n+--------------------------------------------------------------------+\r\n| License: |\r\n| This software is subject to the PHP License, available in this |\r\n| distribution in the file LICENSE. By continuing this installation |\r\n| process, you are bound by the terms of this license agreement. |\r\n| If you do not agree with the terms of this license, you must abort |\r\n| the installation process at this point. |\r\n+--------------------------------------------------------------------+\r\n| *** NOTE *** |\r\n| The default for register_globals is now OFF! |\r\n| |\r\n| If your application relies on register_globals being ON, you |\r\n| should explicitly set it to on in your php.ini file. |\r\n| Note that you are strongly encouraged to read |\r\n| http:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/security.registerglobals.php |\r\n| about the implications of having register_globals set to on, and |\r\n| avoid using it if possible. |\r\n+--------------------------------------------------------------------+\r\n\r\nThank you for using PHP.<\/pre>\n
$ sed -i.org 's\/libphp4\\.so\/libphp4.dll\/g' Makefile\r\n$ diff Makefile.org Makefile\r\n:<\/pre>\n
$ make\r\n:\r\nBuild complete.\r\n(It is safe to ignore warnings about tempnam and tmpnam).<\/pre>\n
$ cd libs\r\n$ ls\r\nlibphp4.a libphp4.la\r\n$ gcc -shared -o libphp4.dll -Wl,--out-implib=libphp4.dll.a \\\r\n-Wl,--export-all-symbols \\\r\n-Wl,--whole-archive libphp4.a \/bin\/cyghttpd.dll \\\r\n-Wl,--no-whole-archive -lcrypt -lresolv\r\nCreating library file: libphp4.dll.a\r\nInfo: resolving _ap_user_id by linking to __imp__ap_user_id (auto-import)\r\nInfo: resolving _ap_group_id by linking to __imp__ap_group_id (auto-import)\r\nInfo: resolving _ap_user_name by linking to __imp__ap_user_name (auto-import)\r\nInfo: resolving _ap_max_requests_per_child by linking to __imp__ap_max_requests_\r\nper_child (auto-import)\r\nInfo: resolving _ap_server_root by linking to __imp__ap_server_root (auto-import\r\n)\r\nInfo: resolving _top_module by linking to __imp__top_module (auto-import)\r\n$ ls\r\nlibphp4.a libphp4.dll libphp4.dll.a libphp4.la<\/pre>\n
$ cd ..\r\n$ make install\r\nInstalling PHP SAPI module: apache\r\n[activating module `php4' in \/etc\/apache\/httpd.conf]\r\ncp libs\/libphp4.dll \/usr\/lib\/apache\/libphp4.dll\r\nchmod 755 \/usr\/lib\/apache\/libphp4.dll\r\ncp \/etc\/apache\/httpd.conf \/etc\/apache\/httpd.conf.bak\r\ncp \/etc\/apache\/httpd.conf.new \/etc\/apache\/httpd.conf\r\nrm \/etc\/apache\/httpd.conf.new\r\nInstalling PHP CLI binary: \/usr\/local\/bin\/\r\nInstalling PHP CLI man page: \/usr\/local\/man\/man1\/\r\nInstalling PEAR environment: \/usr\/local\/lib\/php\/\r\n[PEAR] Archive_Tar - installed: 1.1\r\n[PEAR] Console_Getopt - installed: 1.2\r\n[PEAR] PEAR - installed: 1.3.2\r\nWrote PEAR system config file at: \/usr\/local\/etc\/pear.conf\r\nYou may want to add: \/usr\/local\/lib\/php to your php.ini include_path\r\n[PEAR] DB - installed: 1.6.2\r\n[PEAR] HTTP - installed: 1.2.2\r\n[PEAR] Mail - installed: 1.1.3\r\n[PEAR] Net_SMTP - installed: 1.2.3\r\n[PEAR] Net_Socket - installed: 1.0.1\r\n[PEAR] XML_Parser - installed: 1.0.1\r\n[PEAR] XML_RPC - installed: 1.1.0\r\nInstalling build environment: \/usr\/local\/lib\/php\/build\/\r\nInstalling header files: \/usr\/local\/include\/php\/\r\nInstalling helper programs: \/usr\/local\/bin\/\r\n program: phpize\r\n program: php-config\r\n program: phpextdist<\/pre>\n
LoadModule php4_module lib\/apache\/libphp4.dll\r\nAddModule mod_php4.c<\/pre>\n
#\r\n# Document types.\r\n#\r\n
$ \/usr\/sbin\/apachectl configtest\r\nSyntax OK<\/pre>\n
<?php phpinfo(); ?><\/pre>\n