PHP binary missing in action?

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mstroeck · #1 Post by **mstroeck** » 2006-01-13 22:49

Hi,

I'm completely new to Debian, and just managed to get Postfix, Lighttpd, Rails, end pretty much everything else to run, but PHP has me stumped?! I did an apt-get install php4, and supposedly (according to all the how-to's I've read) there should now be a /usr/local/bin/php executable, but there isn't? What am I doing wrong?

Cheers,
Michael

Harold · #2 Post by **Harold** » 2006-01-14 09:34

Debian packages will install executables into /usr/bin/. The only time you will get executables installed into /usr/local/bin/ is if you build applications from source and do not change the default prefix.

php4 is a meta package - it installs no files itself, only causes other packages to be installed. Do dpkg -l | grep php to identify the php packages installed on your computer. Then do dpkg -L packagename to see what files were installed where.

Jeroen · #3 Post by **Jeroen** » 2006-01-14 12:19

What do you want? Do you really want a /usr/bin/php? Or do you just want to have php working in apache? In the latter case, install libapache-mod-php4 or libapache2-mod-php4 (in case you have apache2). If you want the cgi version of php4, for apache or other browsers, install php4-cgi. If you want a /usr/bin/php4 for standalone commandline scripts (this is rare, but possible, I use it myself to get some php application bits running from cron), you need php4-cli (command-line-interface).

Use dpkg -L <packagename> to see what files are generated by a package. See /usr/share/doc/<packagename> for documentation, always look for README.Debian first.

Jeroen · #4 Post by **Jeroen** » 2006-01-14 12:21

Oh, I see lighttpd, that one requires php as cgi module because it doesn't have php support of itself. So you want php4-cgi. You'll then find the CGI in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php4.