Okay here is my new problem. I have given up on Fedora and have now gone with Falko's choice of Debian Sarge. I want to be able to use phpformgenerator on my website. When I was using a trial version of plesk I was able to use it with no problem but plesk configures php as cgi. Here is what happens. I go through all the steps to create my form and run the creation process. When complete the program provides me with a link to view the page. It is generated in html format with (i believe POST) and then the form sends to my email address, but when I click on the link the page is not found. I go to the directory in which the page is stored in on my website and the folder is empty. So the page is not generated. So my question is how do I run both php4 and php5 as cgi instead of the standard install. And both having all options available for creation. So far you guys have been great and I hope you can help me with this one. Thank you again!
Have a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/apache2_with_php5_and_php4 But I don't think your problem is related to this. I'm sure it's a permissions problem. You're running the phpformgenerator script as the Apache user, and the script tries to write the form to a directory, and I guess that the Apache user does not have write privileges for that directory.
apache user problem Okay if it is a permission problem then how would I go about correcting this? Is there an how to for changing permissions in apache? I have set the directory permissions to 777 for the forms. I apologize for what may appear to be a stupid question.
What's the directory where you expect the forms to be saved? Please post the output of Code: ls -la /path/to/that/directory What's your Apache user? Which distribution do you use? Anything in the Apache error log?
php woes okay here is the output of the ls -la: drwxrwxrwx 4 dorr web1 4096 Mar 27 01:46 . drwxr-xr-x 5 dorr web1 4096 Mar 27 01:46 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 dorr web1 8704 Mar 27 01:46 Thumbs.db drwxrwxrwx 2 dorr web1 4096 Mar 27 01:46 admin -rwxrwxrwx 1 dorr web1 979 Mar 27 01:46 bc_new.gif -rwxrwxrwx 1 dorr web1 9231 Mar 27 01:46 button.jpg drwxrwxrwx 2 dorr web1 4096 Mar 27 01:46 files -rwxrwxrwx 1 dorr web1 1830 Mar 27 01:50 form1.html -rwxrwxrwx 1 dorr web1 929 Mar 27 01:46 form2.html -rwxrwxrwx 1 dorr web1 839 Mar 27 01:46 global.inc.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 dorr web1 53 Mar 27 01:46 nav_m.gif -rwxrwxrwx 1 dorr web1 811 Mar 27 01:50 process.php -rwxrwxrwx 1 dorr web1 157 Mar 27 01:46 tile_back.gif -rwxrwxrwx 1 dorr web1 155 Mar 27 01:46 tile_sub.gif apache user is www-data apache group is www-data Debian Sarge 3.1 with php5 and php4 as cgi and mysql 5 apache error log errors (the whole file): [Mon Mar 27 01:50:52 2006] [Sun Mar 26 23:39:06 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) configured -- resuming normal$ [Sun Mar 26 23:39:36 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Sun Mar 26 23:39:42 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) configured -- resuming normal operations [Sun Mar 26 23:39:42 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Sun Mar 26 23:39:43 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/5.1.2-1.dotdeb.2 configured -- resuming normal opera$ [Sun Mar 26 23:43:17 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Sun Mar 26 23:43:18 2006] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache2/suexec2) PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20050922/ming.so' - libming.so: cannot open shared o$ [Sun Mar 26 23:43:20 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/5.1.2-1.dotdeb.2 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e confi$ [Mon Mar 27 01:16:25 2006] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20050922/ming.so' - libming.so: cannot open shared o$ [Mon Mar 27 01:16:28 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/5.1.2-1.dotdeb.2 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e confi$ [Mon Mar 27 01:16:34 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Mon Mar 27 01:16:35 2006] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache2/suexec2) PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20050922/ming.so' - libming.so: cannot open shared o$ [Mon Mar 27 01:16:36 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/5.1.2-1.dotdeb.2 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e confi$ [Mon Mar 27 01:41:00 2006] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20050922/ming.so' - libming.so: cannot open shared o$ [Mon Mar 27 01:41:01 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/5.1.2-1.dotdeb.2 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e confi$ [Mon Mar 27 01:41:01 2006] [warn] long lost child came home! (pid 19160) [Mon Mar 27 01:49:21 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:49:21 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:01 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:01 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:06 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:06 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:16 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:16 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:18 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:18 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:36 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:36 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:52 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP [Mon Mar 27 01:50:52 2006] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP thanks falko you've been great
php woes Okay we're getting there now. Now I got these two errors though: Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10001 is not allowed to access forms/form1.html owned by uid 33 in /var/www/web1/web/phpform/process3.php on line 467 Warning: fopen(forms/form1.html) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Success in /var/www/web1/web/phpform/process3.php on line 467 cannot create file I think if I can get past these we'll be in working order. Thanks again for your time. Here is the line in question: $out=fopen("forms/form1.html","w") or die ("cannot create file") And also what does this error mean: PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/ming.so' - libming.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
got it done Falko thank you so much for your help. I got it figured out. I had to give apache permissions on the whole folder. I would still like to know about the libming.so error. Your help in this matter is greatly appreciated. As far as I can figure out the libming.so module is no where on my system / hence the error. Thank you again for all of your help. Here is the error in question: PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/ming.so' - libming.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
What's the output of Code: ls -l /usr/lib/php4/20020429/ming.so ? Is ming.so mentioned somewhere in your php.ini?
ming.so The output of the command you listed is: ls: /usr/lib/php4/20020429/ming.s: No such file or directory ming.so is listed but libming.so is not. I found the error in my apache error log file and then when I type php -v this is my output: PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/ming.so' - libming.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 PHP 4.4.2-0.dotdeb.1 (cli) (built: Jan 13 2006 16:48:04) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
I don't know if it's a typo or if you used the wrong command, bot the o at the end is missing: ming.so Can you post the excerpt from php.ini where ming.so is listed? Please do this: Code: apt-get install apt-file apt-file update apt-file search ming.so What's the output of the last command?
ming.so here is the output from apt-file search: apache-common: usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_roaming.so ethereal-common: usr/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.10.10/cosnaming.so liborbit-dev: usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming.so liborbit0: usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming.so.0 liborbit0: usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming.so.0.5.17 libtao-orbsvcs-dev: usr/lib/libTAO_CosNaming.so libtao-orbsvcs1.4: usr/lib/libTAO_CosNaming.so.1.4.2 neverdata: usr/share/games/neverdata/map-putt/17_timing.sol python2.1: usr/lib/python2.1/lib-dynload/timing.so python2.2: usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/timing.so python2.3: usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/timing.so python2.4: usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/timing.so python2.4-dbg: usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/timing.so python2.4-dbg: usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/debug/timing.so simgear-dev: usr/lib/libsgtiming.so simgear0: usr/lib/libsgtiming.so.0 simgear0: usr/lib/libsgtiming.so.0.3.7 And this is in my php.ini extension=ming.so
Ok, there doesn't seem to be a package which contains ming.so. Comment it out: Code: ;extension=ming.so and restart Apache.
I tired commenting out ming.so in the php.ini file, however i still get the same error. php -v PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/ming.so' - libming.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 PHP 4.4.4-0.dotdeb.1 (cli) (built: Aug 21 2006 16:07:30) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
same problem I have almost the same problem locate php.ini produces the following I don't think that it is a solution but i removed php4 and I don't get any error at all
solved I removed all my previous installation php and php modules after that I had to delete manually /etc/php5/ , because I got this Error There is a file with a reference to ming.so, maybe thats why we got the error with "Unable..." I followed the tutorial again with one small exception be careful what modules you install. I installed only this: Anyway I don't need the ming mod so all is good for me now
