Dotdeb php packages php5 conf error

Submitted by sgrayban on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 15:10

I just upgraded a client that wanted php 5.3x and ran into a small issue with apache2 php5.conf

File is /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf

In PHP 5.2 and below versions that config file has..

SetHandler application/x-httpd-php

Which was just fine because the apache2 php mod allowed that directive however 5.3 and above this is depreciated now and that directive must be changed to

SetHandler application/x-httpd-php5

This conf change is for both lenny and squeeze. Users that use the dotdeb repo's need to make a note of this.

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Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 16:07

That file isn't supplied by Virtualmin though .. I would expect that your new PHP 5.3 package would include a corrected SetHandler line.

Submitted by sgrayban on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 17:37

I understand that but the default is

SetHandler application/x-httpd-php

Not

SetHandler application/x-httpd-php5

which is what your script sets the handler to and will not work in php 5.3 now.

<Directory /home/noscarab/public_html>
Options Indexes IncludesNOEXEC FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
allow from all
AllowOverride All
Action application/x-httpd-php5 /cgi-bin/php5.cgi
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php
</Directory>

Submitted by sgrayban on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 17:39

Another thing I am debugging is that fcgid does not work with 5.3 either with your default directives either.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 17:55

Actually, the Virtualmin install script should be commenting out the SetHandler lines in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf as they cannot be over-ridden in each domain's <Virtualhost> block ..

Did you install Virtualmin after php5.conf was created?

Submitted by sgrayban on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 20:00

This client was a migration to VM last year that's why it wasn't commented out.

Submitted by sgrayban on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 22:31

uhh I just checked other servers that are using the default 5.2 php versions and it looks like both those files are being overwritten when there is a upgrade for php/libapache2-mod-php5 and/or libapache2-mod-fcgid

I don't think that's good thing if they are suppose to be modified by VM during install.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 23:29

If the package is overwriting a configuration file that has been modified, that seems like a bug in the package..

Submitted by sgrayban on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 12:34

Ok I am verifying this with Guillaume Plessis.

Submitted by sgrayban on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 14:04

Ok I found another bug that isn't related to the dotdeb packages but it is related to the modified conf files that VM does.

It looks like libapache2-mod-fcgid isn't installed by default and if you do install it /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/fcgid.conf is obviously not edited.

Are you seeing this also in debian ?

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 15:34

When you install Virtualmin using our script, it installs the virtualmin-base package which has libapache2-mod-fcgid as a dependency. Later on it edits php5.cgi to remove the SetHandler line.

What is in that /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/fcgid.conf file that needs to be modified though?

Submitted by sgrayban on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 01:40

That file contains

<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
#  AddHandler   fcgid-script .fcgi
#  FcgidConnectTimeout 20
</IfModule>

Its the same thing with the php5.conf --- if you have anything in that file it will not work for virtual hosts so I commented it out and php 5.3 worked using fcgid

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 18:59

I can't see how that AddHandler line would cause issues .. if you remove just that line, does it fix the problem?

Submitted by sgrayban on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 19:00

Yes at least for php 5.3 it did.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 00:10

Any idea why? In my tests, adding that directive to my apache config manually had no effect ..

Submitted by sgrayban on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 00:18

are you using the dotdeb packages ?

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 12:16

No .. But if the error is in the AddHandler directive, I would expect it to be independent of the PHP version...

Submitted by sgrayban on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 16:17

I just tested this on a new virtual server and when I installed the dotdeb php5.3 package it did the same thing and if I comment out the AddHandler line fcgid works.

I wonder what the difference is with the 5.3 version you tested on.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 16:21

When you have that line in, what is the exact error message or incorrect behavior that you are seeing?

Submitted by sgrayban on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 16:23

I don't get a error at all even when the apache logging is set to debug and php to log everything. All I get is a blank page.

Submitted by sgrayban on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 16:36

Opps I don't get a blank page... I meant to say it tries to download the php file.

Submitted by bleck on Mon, 09/15/2014 - 09:52

I've update PHP via dotdeb repositories on my server where Virtualmin was already installed and running. I got the blank page and download pop-up result.

Commenting the handler directives in 2 configuration files in the directory /etc/apache2/mods-available/ solved the problem.

fcgid.conf :

<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
#  AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
#  FcgidConnectTimeout 20
</IfModule>

php5_cgi.conf:

…
<FilesMatch ".+\.ph(p[345]?|t|tml)$">
#    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
…

Configuration : Virtualmin 4.10 gpl, Debian 6 Squeeze, upgrading to PHP 5.4.32-1~dotdeb.0.