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                                   PHP Woes

Mark [1] and I tried to get PHP [2] installed on the main webserver. Or
rather, I was doing it while Mark looked on.

Snag one—when following the PHP instructions to install mod_php3 I found that
it excluded the module I wrote, mod_litbok. [3] That's when Mark took over
and spent the next hour trying to get both PHP and my module compiled into
the same webserver.

I remarked that had I been the only one doing it, I wouldn't even give PHP a
consideration after 20 minutes—complexity for complexity's sake and the poor
quality of the install documentation and all that.

But Mark, who thrives on solving problems that shouldn't exist in the first
place due to poorly written software, got both modules installed. We copied
the (now huge) executable to the webserver.

My module didn't work properly. Mark was upset that I put the old executable
up. I consider my webserver a production server and until I find the problem,
I'm not going to have a half-working module.

[1] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/
[2] http://www.php.org/
[3] https://github.com/spc476/mod_litbook

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