[CentOS] apache 2 and php 5.2

Tue Feb 15 22:43:15 UTC 2011

2011/2/16 Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
>> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] apache 2 and php 5.2
>>
>> Keith Roberts wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Paul A wrote:
>>>
>>>> To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos at centos.org>
>>>> From: Paul A <razor at meganet.net>
>>>> Subject: [CentOS] apache 2 and php 5.2
>>>>
>>>> Hi originally I installed php 4 on centos 5.5 and then a
>>>> few repos including the remi repo to upgrade to php5,
>>>> which seems to upgrade/work without any issues.
>>>
>>> *snip*
>>>
>>>> I was wondering if anyone can tell me why apache is not
>>>> taking the settings from the /etc/php.ini file and it
>>>> works without that file.
>>>
>>> Creat a php file with this as the contents:
>>>
>>> <head>
>>> <title>php-info</title>
>>> </head>
>>>
>>> <?php phpinfo(); ?>
>>>
>>>
>>> Then load that file into your web browser.
>>
>> And when you're done, be 100% POSITIVE that you deleted it. The attacks
>> that are constant will be looking for it, guaranteed. (I see them all the
>> time.)
>
> Good point Mark. Surely it could be placed in a hidden
> directory, and protected with httpd.conf directives, so
> only localhost can access it?

how about running php --info from commandline?

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