managed to fix it up in the end! i think php4-cgi was missing. thanks for the assists!
I had already added the dot deb sources to my sources.list before doing anything. I did also run apt-get update before updayting php4 and...
Plz excuse the thread title.. i said "php and php5" instead of "php4 and php5"! I recently followed the howtoforge article on setting up php4 and...
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