php5, php5-devel fails when using -apache2

[ioweurwioe@…]

I wanted to install PHP5 CGI, without Apache. It compiled successfully, but then tripped on lack of Apache:

sudo port install php5 -apache2 +cgi
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If this is your first install, you need to activate PHP in your web server.

To enable PHP in Apache, run
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: can't read "moduledir": no such variable
Log for php5 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_php5/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The php5 port has no variant called "+cgi". See "port variants php5". You want:

sudo port install php5 +fastcgi

So our error is that we don't prevent you from installing when you've explicitly unselected the apache2 variant and haven't selected the +fastcgi or +no_web variants. Perhaps the +no_web variant should just go away, now that we are using registry 2.0 which can remember deselected variants.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

This is solved in the new php port which has subports instead of variants for each SAPI.