#!/usr/local/bin/php - setting string and .htaccess question.

[hakalugi]

The existing host i'm with sent me the following info when I couldn't get a page with the following code to work:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

"...For the php script to work you need to inidicate the path to php in the first line of the scripts (#!/usr/local/bin/php)...."

Huh? This is a first for me (sure with Perl, or a shell script, but not PHP). Is there a way to set this value in an .htaccess file?

Oh, and my attempt at an .htaccess file of the following contents, resulted in a error 500:

php_value include_path ".:/home/<cust#>/includes/"

(both with and without quotes results in error 500) - still waiting to hear from 'em, but is this the only way to create an include path rule if I don't have access to php.ini?

[Gaheris]

You got it wrong, your PHP file must look like this.

#!/usr/local/bin/php
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

It sucks though.

[firepages]

you should be able to use ini_set...

<?php
$sep = ( strstr( strtoupper( PHP_OS ) , 'WIN' )  ) ? ';' : ':' ;
ini_set( 'include_path' , ini_get('include_path') . $sep . '/path/to/add' );
?>

[hakalugi]

you should be able to use ini_set...

<?php
$sep = ( strstr( strtoupper( PHP_OS ) , 'WIN' ) ) ? ';' : ':' ;
ini_set( 'include_path' , ini_get('include_path') . $sep . '/path/to/add' );
?>

is this for windows/IIS ?

my host uses RH7.2 ... would the code above still apply?

thanks,'

hak

[Gaheris]

It should work, it is coded to work with both, Win and Linux.

[pezagent]

"...For the php script to work you need to inidicate the path to php in the first line of the scripts (#!/usr/local/bin/php)...."

Huh? This is a first for me (sure with Perl, or a shell script, but not PHP). Is there a way to set this value in an .htaccess file?

Yeah, me too. My remote host service sets that path automatically so I don't have to worry about it. Why would your host not have that set up? That's very strange.

Johnny

[hakalugi]

Yeah, me too. My remote host service sets that path automatically so I don't have to worry about it. Why would your host not have that set up? That's very strange. [img]images/smilies/crazy.gif[/img]

Johnny [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]

as of now i'm "forced" to use this host, my first time working with them. if things become too difficult, I'll just move the site to a host I have several sites on...

crazy, still waiting on how to get include(xyz.php); to work. They've escalated it (!) as a normal include call (with the path set in the .htaccess) causes a server error 500

[website]

Wow, I've never neede to do this except perhaps when I am executing php scripts with crob job (so the script isn't really run from the web)