On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: > Dear Ondřej and everybody, > > I would like to keep separate the two following issues. > > 1) Whether or not to give a private media type to PHP files in Debian, and > if yes, which one. > > 2) Provide a smooth upgrade to our users who use Apache's mod_negociation in > a way > that is different to what is recommended in PHP (where the FAQ suggests > to associate > the media type "text/html" to .php files). > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php#faq.installation.apache.multiviews > > Point 2) can be solved by adding two lines (plus explanatory comments) in > /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf (http://bugs.debian.org/670945#26). > > Ondřej, I would appreciate if you solved #670945 this way. I understand that > it > puts the work burden on your shoulders and that php5 is a much heavier package > than mime-support, but I think that it is the cleanest solution. For the > moment > I have not received any message saying that a media type needs to be provided > by > mime-support in order for PHP to work in other contexts.
With much cooler head and weekend after me and after carefull consideration of Chris's comments I have decided to go with: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-php/php.git;a=blob;f=debian/NEWS;hb=refs/heads/debian-wheezy php5 (5.4.4-7) unstable; urgency=low * As a side effect of MIME-Type changes in the mime-support package, the default Apache 2 configuration doesn't support MultiViews negotiation, which was very fragile anyway. If you want to re-enable this support please see /usr/share/doc/php5-common/README.Debian file for instructions to re-add MIME-Types in Apache 2 configuration or how to use mod_rewrite to accomplish the same without the fragility of Multi- Views. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@debian.org> Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:18:41 +0200 and http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-php/php.git;a=blob;f=debian/php5-common.README.Debian;hb=refs/heads/debian-wheezy PHP 5 and Apache 2 Multiviews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache 2 mod_negotiation's MultiViews needs php scripts to have a MIME-Type to make the negotiation work. We are using Apache 2 handlers (SetHandler directive) to enable PHP processing, so by default the MultiViews support is disabled in Debian packages. You can explicitly add extra MIME-Types (different from magic application/x-httpd-* types) which will not cause any special PHP processing, but just enable MultiViews negotiation support. Add these two lines to you Apache 2 config to enable MultiViews: AddType application/x-php php phtml php3 AddType application/x-php-source phps Also most likely what you really want would be better accomplished by mod_rewrite rules where you can explicitly specify what gets rewritten to what (e.g. http://localhost/file gets rewritten to file.php, but not to file.html or file.js). <I would like to add text here with instructions how to enable mod_rewrite handling.> O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caljhhg92_0mukn6n4e-2ja0khwsxcke6pxtqr0tgkhoam_4...@mail.gmail.com
