Building Chinese Web Sites using PHP

∟Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server

∟Configuring Apache for PHP CGI Scripts

This section describes how to configure Apache server to support PHP CGI scripts.

With both PHP 5 and Apache 2 installed on my Windows system, I continued to configure the Apache server to support PHP CGI scripts:

1. Open the Apache configuration file, \local\apache\conf\httpd.conf, in a text editor

2. First I have to define a CGI script directory alias, mapping an Apache document directory to a real directory where php-cgi.exe is located. Go to alias_module section and add one line: 

<IfModule alias_module>
...
   ScriptAlias /cgi-bin-php/ "/local/php/"
</IfModule>

3. Now I need to add an access control section for this directory as: 

<Directory "/local/php/">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

4. Next, I have to define a new MIME type to support the .php file extension. Go to mime_module section and one line: 

<IfModule mime_module>
...    
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php 
</IfModule>

5. The last setting is to tell Apache to serve the new MIME type with php-cgi.exe located in the directory alias /cgi-bin-php/: At the root level below the LoadModule section, define an "Action" entry: 

#LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

Action application/x-httpd-php "/cgi-bin-php/php-cgi.exe"

6. The configuration changes are done. Now restart the Apache server by clicking Start > All Programs > Apache Server 2.2.4 > Control Apache Server > Restart.

Another way to integrate Apache with PHP is to set PHP as a load module. This is more efficient than the CGI script interface. But for my personal testing purpose, the CGI script interface is good enough.

Last update: 2015.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 PHP Installation on Windows Systems

►Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server

 Downloading Apache 2.2.4 Binary for Windows

 Installing Apache 2.2.4 on Windows Systems

 Publishing HTML Documents as Web Pages

►Configuring Apache for PHP CGI Scripts

 Publishing PHP Scripts as Web Pages

 charset="*" - Encodings on Chinese Web Pages

 Chinese Characters in PHP String Literals

 Multibyte String Functions in UTF-8 Encoding

 Input Text Data from Web Forms

 Input Chinese Text Data from Web Forms

 MySQL - Installation on Windows

 MySQL - Connecting PHP to Database

 MySQL - Character Set and Encoding

 MySQL - Sending Non-ASCII Text to MySQL

 Retrieving Chinese Text from Database to Web Pages

 Input Chinese Text Data to MySQL Database

 References

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