Trouble installing/activating php5

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Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: apr-1.4.6.tar.bz2 does not exist in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/apr

command:

sudo port install php5-imap

latest xcode and macports installed.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please use:

sudo port clean --all apr

Then try again.

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I downloaded the right package from apache and then tried again. Now it fails on php5.

Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
Error: Failed to install php5

from logfile:

:error:configure Failed to install php5
:debug:configure couldn't open "/System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Resources/tclIndex": no such file or directory
    while executing
"open [file join $dir tclIndex]"

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please attach the entire main.log file so we can see what went wrong.

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log for failing install php5

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cleaned php
ran update on dependencis
macports fetched php.
the "sudo port install php5-imap" finally stopped complaining.

I now have a functional webserver in another dir (wich is as it should) but no php.
Ran the suggested commands (from the install)

/opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs -a -e -n "php5" libphp5.so

wich gives me:

/opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs -a -e -n "php5" libphp5.so
[activating module `php5' in /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf]
unable to open configuration file

I give up.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Did you use sudo for that? IIRC apxs needs to write the configuration file to enable a module and the file is probably only writable by root.

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actually I didnt. But now I did. no errors but still no php.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Did you restart apache? How did you determine PHP doesn't work? Is your server properly configured to use mod_php?

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I restarted the computer and ran the load apache command. If my server is configured to use mod_php I am not sure if I understand what you mean. I thought that the install and the following commands should take care of that.

I used php with my default apache with no problem. Now all I get is the php scripts written out in plain text on the webpage.

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

You probably need to configure apache to process your php files with the php module.

php.net recommends:

<FilesMatch \.php$>
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

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well, thanks.

I gave it a try (much more time spent than I have).

I really have to let this one go. It will be a ubuntu story from here on.

to admin: delete this ticket if you want too.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I'm sorry you had trouble getting MacPorts php to work. I'm closing this ticket since I don't see any MacPorts bug. Instructions for setting up MacPorts PHP are in wiki:howto/MAMP#php. If you need further help you should write to the macports-users mailing list. The issue tracker is for bug reports and feature requests, not for support issues.

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