I only have one strange problem – the full php configuration I used does not show up, only a partial configuration appears.

FYI, I’m using Snow Leopard’s build in Apache, for simplicity, php 5.2.12 and php 5.3.1.

After I comment out the php make install LoadModule php5_module in httpd.conf, in the result phpinfo() output I get (php 5.3.1):

Configure Command ‘./configure’ ‘–prefix=/opt/php5.3′ ‘–with-config-file-path=/opt/php5.3′ ‘–with-curl’ ‘–enable-cli’ ‘–with-mysql=mysqlnd’ ‘–with-mysqli=mysqlnd’ ‘–with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd’

However if I reactive LoadModule php5_module in httpd.conf and restart the server (forcing the direct use of php) I get:

Command ‘./configure’ ‘–prefix=/opt/php5.3′ ‘–with-config-file-path=/opt/php5.3′ ‘–with-curl’ ‘–enable-cli’ ‘–with-mysql=mysqlnd’ ‘–with-mysqli=mysqlnd’ ‘–with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd’ ‘–with-zlib’ ‘–with-zlib-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs’ ‘–with-ldap=/usr’ ‘–with-iodbc=/usr’ ‘–with-curl=/usr’ ‘–with-mysql-sock=/tmp’ ‘–with-openssl=/usr’ ‘–with-xmlrpc’ ‘–with-pear’ ‘–with-iconv-dir=/usr/local’ ‘–with-gd’ ‘–with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib’ ‘–with-png-dir=/usr/X11R6′ ‘–with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11R6′ ‘–with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6′ ‘–with-sqlite’ ‘–with-pdo-sqlite’ ‘–with-ldap=/usr’ ‘–with-ldap-sasl=/usr’ ‘–with-bz2=/usr’ ‘–enable-exif’ ‘–enable-ftp’ ‘–enable-sockets’ ‘–enable-mbstring’ ‘–enable-mbregex’ ‘–enable-soap’ ‘–enable-bcmath’ ‘–enable-dba’ ‘–enable-gd-native-ttf’

The result is roughly the same for php 5.2.12.

No errors in the error log. Just missing most of my php configuration, which, as you can imagine, hamstrings the application!

Any ideas?

In all honesty, I don’t really prefer one over the other. They both work great, I tend to stick to Apache though because it is more widely used and sometimes you don’t get to choose what the http server is.

To force the redirect for the /mail subdirectory, I created a .htaccess file containing the following:

AddHandler x-httpd-php php
Action x-httpd-php /usr/bin/php

The server is actually picking it up as expected, but it seems to be doing the wrong thing with it. Rather than executing “/usr/bin/php mail/index.php” (note the space between “php” and “mail”, it’s instead executing “/usr/bin/php/mail/index.php” — jamming everything together into a single string and trying to execute that. Since the path “/usr/bin/php/mail/index.php” doesn’t exist, I’m getting a 404.

Any ideas?