[Phpmyadmin-devel] solution for RedHat 8 (and others) problems

[Marc Delisle]

Rabus wrote:
> Hi Marc and list,
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Delisle
> 
>>We got numerous problems of duplicate field names on table creation.
> 
> 
> Indeed. :-)
> 
> 
>>The default configuration of RedHat 8 has, in
>>/etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf (comments removed):
>>============
>>LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
>>
>><Files *.php>
>>     SetOutputFilter PHP
>>     SetInputFilter PHP
>>     LimitRequestBody 524288
>></Files>
>>
>>DirectoryIndex index.php
>>==========
>>
>>and in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>>===========
>>AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
>>===========
> 
> 
> This config tells Apache to filter php twice...!
> Good job, Marc!
> 
> 
>>Those 2 kinds of directives, used together, give a conflict
>>with arrays in POST variables, which we use in phpMyAdmin.
>>
>>So, remove the line in httpd.conf, like this:
>>#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> 
> 
> Since the AddType directive is the way that is recommended by php, I'd
> rather comment out the "SetOutputFilter" and "SetInputFilter" lines
> instead.

Ok I will document this in a FAQ, with a link on phpmyadmin.net,
and suggest the recommended way.

Marc
> 
> Alexander M. Turek
> <alex at bugfixes.info>
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