begin Jenny Hopkins quotation:
>> Once again, what is wrong with the prebuilt php4 that you're >> trying to fix? Or is this all an exercise in masochism?
> I can't remember exactly, as it seems a long time ago, perhaps I > could retry......there were some probs so I left it a few weeks > and have just come back to it. > I'm still a bit hazy on what is the easy way and what is the > hard way here.
I used PHP4 on Debian a while back. I came across two problems I had to fix after the apt-get install:
* I had to uncomment the LoadModule statement in httpd.conf
* I had to alter something in /etc/mime.types to have .php files processed by the server rather than sent to the client as-is. I forget exactly what this was, however.