PHP under WASD
After the success with PHP on Apache, it was time to get things running on WASD as well, and again, I used the emulated system on the new company laptop. Getting WASD to run wasn’t a big issue, fairly straight forward, but it took some time to get it running in some way – you don’t set up a system very regularly, normally, so you tend to forget how things work. But Mark’s documentation is so good, it’s not a bug deal to get the administration panel accessible. And because of the WATCH utility, this simply is a requirement.
Building the PHP engine against the files created by Mark Berryman (that run fine under Apache) again was problem at all -once the logical used to refer to PHPSHR were set up properly. Setting up the rest however, to get the PHP scripts (still in the Apache enviroment!) be executed, was not that simple. Luckily, I could refer to the settings on Diana – you’re looking to that machine’s output this very moment – made a few things clear, and these must be noted to Mark as well, because what happens is non-standard. The issues I found work on Diana for all blogs, so I copied the structure. Now it works – and is shows the right stuff, equal as under Apache except for the server signature, of course).
I also found a possible cause for the strange behaviour in one of the admin pages.
All issues will be passed to Mark Daniel.
Next is a test of MySQL and a blog. It requires MySQL set up on the emulator, and copying some data into it.