Ok.. How do you recompile PHP in Windows 98?

Matt

Follow those directions and recompile?

Bill

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 08:29:13PM -0700, Matt DeWyer wrote:
> I am having a problem with Xitami and PHP.
> When I try to run a .php script, I get the message:
> 
> Security Alert! PHP CGI cannot be accessed directly. 
> This PHP CGI binary was compiled with force-cgi-redirect enabled. This means that a 
>page will only be served up if the REDIRECT_STATUS CGI variable is set. This variable 
>is set, for example, by Apache's Action directive redirect. 
> 
> You may disable this restriction by recompiling the PHP binary with the 
>--disable-force-cgi-redirect switch. If you do this and you have your PHP CGI binary 
>accessible somewhere in your web tree, people will be able to circumvent .htaccess 
>security by loading files through the PHP parser. A good way around this is to define 
>doc_root in your php.ini file to something other than your top-level DOCUMENT_ROOT. 
>This way you can separate the part of your web space which uses PHP from the normal 
>part using .htaccess security. If you do not have any .htaccess restrictions anywhere 
>on your site you can leave doc_root undefined. If you are running IIS, you may safely 
>set cgi.force_redirect=0 in php.ini. 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Matt
> 

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