[users@httpd] Apache+PHP suddenly not working

[Jason Lixfeld <ja...@lixfeld.ca>]

I have no doubt that this is due to an update that was done on my  
system at some point, but unfortunately I can't pinpoint where.  The  
upshot is that PHP is completely unresponsive for me when run from  
Apache and I'm not sure where to look.  I recognize that this isn't a  
PHP support list.  This message is being cc'd there too.

The system is FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p15.  PHP 5.2.11 from ports.  Apache  
2.2.13 from ports.

I have a .php that calls phpinfo(); that shows a blank screen when hit  
from a browser.

My problem is that I don't know how to troubleshoot this.

I can seem to run PHP from the CLI just fine, so does this look more  
like an apache issue or perhaps some php module or extension that  
talks to apache?

[root@ricky /]# php
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
phpinfo()
PHP Version => 5.2.11

System => FreeBSD ricky.arionetworks.ca 6.1-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 6.1- 
RELEASE-p15 #0: Sat Mar 31 11:43:34 EDT 2007      
jlixfeld@ricky.arionetworks.ca:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
Build Date => Oct 26 2009 15:38:06
Configure Command =>  './configure'  '--with-layout=GNU' '--with- 
config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php' '--disable-all' '--enable- 
libxml' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr/local' '--enable-reflection' '-- 
program-prefix=' '--enable-fastcgi' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/sbin/ 
apxs' '--with-regex=php' '--with-zend-vm=CALL' '--disable-ipv6' '-- 
prefix=/usr/local' '--mandir=/usr/local/man' '--infodir=/usr/local/ 
info/' '--build=amd64-portbld-freebsd6.1'
Server API => Command Line Interface
Virtual Directory Support => disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /usr/local/etc
Loaded Configuration File => /usr/local/etc/php.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files => /usr/local/etc/php
additional .ini files parsed => /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini
...
...
...
etc
...

[root@ricky /]# pkg_info | grep php5
php5-5.2.11_1       PHP Scripting Language
php5-ctype-5.2.11_1 The ctype shared extension for php
php5-dom-5.2.11_1   The dom shared extension for php
php5-extensions-1.3 A "meta-port" to install PHP extensions
php5-filter-5.2.11_1 The filter shared extension for php
php5-gd-5.2.11_1    The gd shared extension for php
php5-gettext-5.2.11_1 The gettext shared extension for php
php5-iconv-5.2.11_1 The iconv shared extension for php
php5-imap-5.2.11_1  The imap shared extension for php
php5-ldap-5.2.11_1  The ldap shared extension for php
php5-mbstring-5.2.11_1 The mbstring shared extension for php
php5-mysql-5.2.11_1 The mysql shared extension for php
php5-openssl-5.2.11_1 The openssl shared extension for php
php5-pcre-5.2.11_1  The pcre shared extension for php
php5-pdo-5.2.11_1   The pdo shared extension for php
php5-pdo_sqlite-5.2.11_1 The pdo_sqlite shared extension for php
php5-posix-5.2.11_1 The posix shared extension for php
php5-session-5.2.11_1 The session shared extension for php
php5-simplexml-5.2.11_1 The simplexml shared extension for php
php5-spl-5.2.11_1   The spl shared extension for php
php5-sqlite-5.2.11_1 The sqlite shared extension for php
php5-tokenizer-5.2.11_1 The tokenizer shared extension for php
php5-xml-5.2.11_1   The xml shared extension for php
php5-xmlreader-5.2.11_1 The xmlreader shared extension for php
php5-xmlwriter-5.2.11_1 The xmlwriter shared extension for php
[root@ricky /]#

[root@ricky /usr/ports/www]# telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.arionetworks.ca.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:39:32 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.13 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1 DAV/2  
PHP/5.2.11 with Suhosin-Patch
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1

Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@ricky /usr/ports/www]# httpd -V
Server version: Apache/2.2.13 (FreeBSD)
Server built:   Oct 26 2009 10:23:14
Server's Module Magic Number: 20051115:23
Server loaded:  APR 1.3.8, APR-Util 1.3.9
Compiled using: APR 1.3.8, APR-Util 1.3.9
Architecture:   64-bit
Server MPM:     Prefork
   threaded:     no
     forked:     yes (variable process count)
Server compiled with....
  -D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork"
  -D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
  -D APR_HAS_MMAP
  -D APR_USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZE
  -D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
  -D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
  -D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
  -D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
  -D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=128
  -D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr/local"
  -D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/local/bin/suexec"
  -D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="/var/run/httpd.pid"
  -D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="/var/run/apache_runtime_status"
  -D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="/var/run/accept.lock"
  -D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="/var/log/httpd-error.log"
  -D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="etc/apache22/mime.types"
  -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="etc/apache22/httpd.conf"
[root@ricky /usr/ports/www]# httpd -M | grep php
  php5_module (shared)
Syntax OK
[root@ricky /usr/ports/www]#

Any ideas for a completely ignorant, non-developer type?

Thanks in advance.

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