Re: borked install - cannot downgrade

[brian <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Hodge wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> 1) For downgrading, make sure you strip the out the references to the PHP 5
> module in apache config:
>
>   > [activating module `php5' in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf]
>
> You'll need to edit httpd.conf and remove the php5 stuff (or you could just
> remove everything php-related from there and re-install php 4).  Hopefully then
> PHP 4 will start.

Success. Of course - the libphp5.so was still in httpd's modules 
directory, and it was attempting to load it.

> 2) Those PEAR errors are a bit strange:
>
>
> > [PEAR] Archive_Tar: PEAR_Registry: could not open filemap 
> > "/usr/share/pear/.filemap"
> > [PEAR] Console_Getopt: PEAR_Registry: could not open filemap 
> > "/usr/share/pear/.filemap"
>
>
> If that's a fresh install of PEAR on your system, then I would imagine .filemap
> doesn't exist, so ask around on the PEAR mailing list.  That shouldn't stop PHP
> running though.

It was a freshly de-installed PEAR, so, like the php5 module, it may 
have been there. But then, if i was installing fresh rfom source, i 
wouldn't expect it to be. I'll take your advice ad ask on a PEAR list.

> 3) Inside your php.ini file, comment out references to all modules/extensions
> (remove the whole php.ini file if you have to, so that PHP starts up
> 'cleanly'), because that bunch of errors sounds like PHP is trying to load a
> module called 'nModule', which isn't installed correctly, or was built against
> 5.1.4 and won't run with 4.4.0 now (naturally).  You might try running the PHP
> executable on it's own (in /usr/bin/php or somewhere like that) and see if you
> get the same errors as well.

Actually, it looked to me like that was a newline in the error msg:

... Unable to initialize module\nModule compiled with ...

It's gone now, in any case. Thanks for the insight.

Now, back to why the php5 install failed...

brian