On servers using suPHP, users might
experience problems when installing third-party software, that uses the
php_value or php_flag directives in a
.htaccess file.
Although suPHP cannot properly support this directives for architectural reasons, at least they can be ignored, so that no error message is produced. In fact, often the settings won't be needed or may be the default settings provided by the server configuration anyway. In this cases mod_dummyphp will make the software work out of the box by accepting these configuration directives without doing anything.
If special PHP settings are needed for a software, this module will not
suffice and a php.ini with the correct settings will have to
be placed in the application directory.
After downloading the source code, the module
has to be built using apxs. Depending on the distribution
and the Apache version you are using apxs might be called
apxs2. Therefore the path to the apxs is
expressed using the variable ${APXS} in the following
examples.
The module can be compiled using
${APXS} -c mod_dummyphp.c
This will create a mod_dummyphp.so. The location of this
file depends on the Apache version you are using. For Apache 1.3 the
file will be placed within the same directory. For Apache 2.x a
subdirectory with the name .libs will be created.
After building the module, copy the file to your Apache module directory. The path to this directory depends on the distribution you are using. To activate the module you have to load it in your Apache configuration using the line
LoadModule dummyphp_module path/to/mod_dummyphp.so
For Apache 1.3 a second line
AddModule mod_dummyphp.c
has to be added to the configuration.
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