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Apparently, my ISP (Interland) will only let me run PHP scripts from inside my cgi-bin directory and only from the command line. (See below) Does this mean Interland has not installed the correct Apache module? Is there a way I can tell if they have installed the module but that it is improperly configured?

For example, I have to run scripts like this:
#!/usr/local/bin/php
<?
print("Hello world!n");
?>

Instead of like this:
<?PHP
print("Hello world!n");
?>

I'm asking about this PHP stuff in the context of trying to get the UBB 6.10 "accelerator" to work.

It sounds as though they have installed it as a CGI binary rhater then compiled it into Apache either static or as a DSO. They further have limited it's use to the cgi-bin.

It's pretty dogone restrictive but I don't know enough about it yet to say if this is good or bad. I would guess it's atypical but that's as far as I'll got for now.

At the moment you cannot use the UBB Accelerator. It is looking for the script in the non cgi directory but we might be able to do something in the arrangement to accomodate you. I'll look into it.

YOu'll need to make some minor tweaks.

Open ubb_lib.cgi in Notepad - inside you'll find references to $ULTIMATEBB, near the top.

One points towards the Perl script, one towards the PHP.

Alter the PHP one to use CGIURL, not NonCGIURL, then copy ultimatebb.php and vars_config.inc.php into the CGI directory.

You'll need to add the #! line to the ultimatebb.php script

It SHOULD work after that, assuming that PHP is sane. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Do I need to add the #!/usr/local/bin/php
to the ubbaccel_test.php and vars_config.inc.php scripts too?

Yes, if you like to use the UBB Accelerator test
No.

I did everything you guys said including modifying ubb_lib.cgi and copying ultimatebb.php, vars_config.inc.php and ubbaccel_test.php into the CGI dir but I'm still getting internal server errors. I also checked the permissions and they seem okay on those files.

I'll go ahead and open a support ticket.

http://www.infopop.com/cgi-bin/support/c...tware@yahoo.com

Interland sucks.

I'm not sure how much help we'll be... <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Maybe you need to change the .php extension to .cgi:

Rename ultimatebb.php to ultimatebb2.cgi and change in ubb_lib:

$ULTIMATEBB = "$vars_config{NonCGIURL}/ultimatebb.php";

to

$ULTIMATEBB = "$vars_config{CGIURL}/ultimatebb2.cgi";

Why would that be the case? I can run scripts like test.php from my cgi-bin dir. I also found out that Interland will allow you to run scripts from any any dir. I must have had the permissions set wrong when I tested it.

That was just a idea <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Interland is doing something screwy with the files....

I got it working. It appears that the permissions of the non-cgi directory were not set correctly.

What I did was:
1. Re-upload *.PHP files into non-cgi directory.
2. Re-upload ubb_lib.cgi into cgi directory.
3. Change permissions of non-cgi directory to 755. (Permissions of PHP files were already set to 755 ?!)
4. Insert #!/usr/lib/.../php into first line of ubbaccel_test.php and ultimatebb.test
5. PHP files now executed correctly.

One problem remains:
"Your PHP version is 4.06: OK
Your PHP version has zlib: No

Your PHP version will have no issues with the UBB Accelerator. There does not appear to be zlib support in this PHP version. The UBB Accelerator will be unable to use zlib compression."

I was under the impression if I have V4 or greater of PHP zlib was included. Is there a way I can add support for zlib?

As I noted via email, it has to be actually compiled in if you're on UNix.

FYI, the final solution to this involved creating a custom installation of PHP. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />