Just to clarify things I dug out the article in question - which was 
from October.
' .. with PHP at version 4.2.2, Apache 2 is 'not' supported in PHP 
beyond being tagged as experimental. Various people have tried and 
succeeded in getting PHP and Apache 2 to communicate but it isn't really 
reliable ... Better Apache 2 support is pencilled in for PHP 4.3.'

As of 27th of November release candidate 2 of PHP 4.3 is available. The 
current stable release is now 4.2.3. Who knows though, the RedHat 8 
setup may work well enough. However, I can't help being reminded of the 
fact that RedHat 7 was shipped with a broken version of gcc. Even Linus 
Torvalds said that was a stupid thing to do.

Still, on php.net there's a little bit of snow on the php logo...

'bye for now,
Mark

Adam Lang wrote:

>If that is true, it is rather upsetting, as Redhat 8.0 ships with Apache 2
>and PHP.
>
>Adam Lang
>Systems Engineer
>Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
>http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Howe" <markh@p...>
>To: "professional php" <pro_php@p...>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:52 AM
>Subject: [pro_php] Re: php & apache not getting along
>
>
>>Dear Eric,
>>              in a recent Linux mag I read that there wasn't yet a
>>version of php that worked properly with Apache 2. The advice was to
>>stick with Apache 1.3.xx. The author of the article did say that some
>>adventurous types had performed acrobatics and managed to get the two to
>>work together. Like I say though, I'm only repeating what I read - I've
>>personally only had experience installing php with Apache 1.3.xx.
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>Eric Crump wrote:
>>
>>>I've been trying to install PHP & Apache on a new server (RH Linux 7.3,
>>>kernel  2.4.18-18.7, PHP 4.2.3 and Apache 2.0.43. I've reinstalled both
>>>several times, trying PHP with and without zlib (I found one message on
>>>the web suggesting that might make a difference). I've also tried moving
>>>back to Apache 2.0.39, thinking maybe this is a problem with 2.0.43.
>>>
>>>When I try to start Apache with the stock config, it's fine. When I load
>>>the php module, I get this error:
>>>
>>>Syntax error on line 265 of /home/www/conf/httpd.conf:
>>>Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so into server:
>>>/usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: ap_block_alarms
>>>
>>>I searched the net yesterday (and into the night) and found a number of
>>>references to this error, but couldn't find mention of a solution.
>>>Before I go into a long, torturous version-dance, trying every
>>>
>combination
>
>>>of versions for both programs, I thought I'd see if anybody else here has
>>>run into this and has any suggestions.
>>>
>>>TIA!
>>>
>>>--Eric Crump
>>>
>>>
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