port install php5 fails on Leopard 10.5.4

[Ken Tozier]

On Jul 10, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Bill Hernandez wrote:

> /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
> should show the three items below :
>
> LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
>
> Include conf/mod_php.conf
>
> DocumentRoot "/Web/path/to/your/www"

That must be part of the problem. /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf  
doesn't exist /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf.example does but the  
string "php" doesn't appear anywhere in it. There is an httpd.conf  
file one level deeper in the hierarchy (/opt/local/apache2/conf/ 
original/httpd.conf") but that doesn't contain "php" either. Another  
possible problem is that while both "httpd.conf.example" and "/ 
original/httpd.conf" contain t"DocumentRoot" the path points to "/opt/ 
local/apache2/htdocs" which, if I'm understanding how the "web  
sharing" checkbox works in the "Sharing prefs panel," puts it  
completely out of the normal web hosting framework.

This is starting to get complicated... Do I really have to subvert  
the nice simple turn it on/turn it off mechanism of web sharing and  
hand tool a bunch of settings to get this to work? Or is the php Mac  
port not quite ready for prime time?

Any help/insights appreciated.