Magento

Where is the Magento compiled php5 binary? This link is empty >>(http://www.magentocommerce.com/support/php5cgi/php5-cgi)

Thanks!

when i try this i becomes a error:

Premature end of script headers: php5-cgi

Been going at this for hours.

No matter what I do, I keep getting a 404:

The requested URL /cgi-bin/php5-cgi/index.php was not found on this server.

Magento is installed in the root directory of my server (httpdocs), not in a subdirectory, and I added the code above to my .htaccess in that root directory:

Action php5-cgi /cgi-bin/php5-cgi
AddHandler php5-cgi .php

No luck.  Any ideas?

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Travis did you put the binary in the cgi-bin?

Make sure the AddHandler directive in your .htaccess file is pointing to the correct location for the PHP5 binary. You can often test it by trying to surf to the location with your web browser. For example, if your site is http://www.example.com and your PHP5 location is /cgi-bin/php5-cgi, try visiting http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/php5-cgi with your web browser. If you see a Internal Server Error message, then that means your PHP5 binary is in the correct location. If you get a File not found message, then this is not the correct location.

Yup.

Went through the exact steps above, several times. 

I’m giving it another try now on a new domain, clean directories, and will report what happens.

Travis make sure that you edit the htacces file to point to the location of the php5-cgi.
( I totally forgot that step when I installed mine. )
And make sure the cgi binary was not saved as a text file when you downloaded it.

Good luck! 

Thanks. 

I do get the correct error when trying to access the cgi file on my server.  So that’s good.

Still re-uploading all the Magento files (takes a good hour or so).

What type of server (host) have you managed to get this to work on?

Travis

I use godaddy

Hey Greek, i’m getting the same error - have you found the solution?

Cheers
Andre

OK ive fixed the problem. For anyone else getting this error, please make sure that not only the php5-cgi file is CHMOD 755, but the cgi-bin directory is also CHMOD 755.

I hope this helps

Managed to get it to work.  I’m trying trace the steps to put a guide together.

It might be worth mentioning what kind of binary is being supplied with the link in the article.

I presume it is compiled for Linux x86, but it really needs to be stated.

In which case, it will NOT work for:
- Windows
- Mac OSX
- Solaris
- *BSD
- Linux on other platforms (PPC, sparc, alpha, etc.)

My suggestion is that when it comes time to run a live store, make sure you switch to hosting that _does_ support PHP5 (note: PHP4 is end of life anyway - http://www.php.net/index.php#2007-07-13-1 )

Just thought I would also add…

Don’t be hasty to use the CGI option described here - use as a last resort.  First make (very) sure your host doesn’t have PHP5 support.

Many web hosts support both PHP4 and PHP5 (at the same time), but have PHP4 set as the default handler for files with the .php extension.  Usually files with the .php5 extension will run with PHP5, and you can usually override the default handler for .php as well.

It is worth checking your hosts knowledge base for details, as it is not always advertised.

For example:

site5.com have PHP4 for *.php and PHP5 for *.php5 - this can be overridden with the following line in a .htaccess file:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

heartinternet.co.uk also have PHP4 for *.php and PHP5 for *.php5 - but it is overridden with this line in a .htaccess file:
SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5

If you still have no luck and you have to go the CGI route, at least make sure you lodge a support request for your host to add PHP5.
http://gophp5.org/

My I please remind everyone that php5 is not a whole number.

For example godaddy currently uses 5.1.4 wich is indeed php5 but magento will not run on it.

Magento requires php5.20

I’m seeing this message when try to install.

“No input file specified.”

I’m using the php5-cgi binary method on php 5.1.6.

Any ideas?

thanks,
Jeremy

I’m using a plesk server so the cgi-directory is not in the root of the site.
I tried this method and I get a “The page isn’t redirecting properly” error in Firefox.
Any ideea why?

Oups. I was loading the install page with https.
I hope I won’t have troubles in the buy process.

I’m getting this error:

Error message:
Premature end of script headers: php5-cgi

..just like Greek.

Was there ever a solution to this?

I can’t see the .htaccess file in the magento folder, but I can see it in some of the subfolders.

I’m also getting the following message:

“No input file specified.”

Please provide any suggestions

Anyone who has installed magento on godaddy, I could use some help… what does your .htaccess file look like and what else did you have to do, if anything for the php5-cgi workaround. Also posted in the forum: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/1571/

Hmm.. if you want to use Magento so why to buy low price basic Hosting Plan?

Why not buy Virtual Private Server? Virtual Private Server on some Server Virtualization System might only a cost 5-10 € / month more than basic hosting plan but needs much more knowledge about that how to install/configure all Sever Software like Apache, PHP and MySQL, SMTP and POP3/IMAP Server etc. on Linux/Windows Environment. And knowledge how setup security correctly. Benefit is that you can choose PHP version etc.

One thing I want to say I do not think that all ISPs allow to do much user custom setting to PHP like this CGI thing. Meny times much that user want to do is limited like user can not change much Apache setting with .htaccess…

I’m using a plesk server so the cgi-directory is not in the root of the site.
I tried this method and I get a “The page isn’t redirecting properly” error in Firefox.
Any ideea why?

Do you speak about Basic Web Hosting Plan on Plesk or Virtual Private Server on Plesk or even VSP with full Plesk installation.

If you have a VSP that is virtualized with SWsoft Software or VSP with Plesk you can even install latest PHP and modify httpd.conf file your self with notepad..

On Windows cgi-bin directory is in Apache root folder.. and much I know about Linux Apache is in /etc/httpd/ or in some other sub folder of Linux root.. sorry can’t remember because its long time from that I am used Hosting Plan with SWsoft’s Software…

i`ve added php5-cgi to cgi-bin directory and chmod it to 755 and i retrieve a bad message:))
the error is quite long
please take a look on the website: http://www.margelutze.ro and tell me if i can do something to make it fix.

can you tell me how to delete those files? the owner for those files is 99 and i don`t have permission to delete :|
i`ve renamed the folder var to var2 and created a new folder var, but still looking for deleting those files
thanks

Just installed into Godaddy and got it working.
I followed the instructions above and the first time I got bad something error

my folders were like this
root/magento/
root/cgi/php5-cgi

I had my .htaccess set to
Action php5-cgi ../cgi/php5-cgi
which is incorrect - i changed it to
Action php5-cgi /cgi/php5-cgi

here is entire .htaccess file in the magento folder
===================================
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
php_flag short_open_tag on
</IfModule>

Action php5-cgi /cgi/php5-cgi
AddHandler php5-cgi .php

DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteEngine on

#RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/skin/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/js/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l

RewriteRule .* index.php

and it worked.

I’m also getting the following message:

“No input file specified.”

Please provide any suggestions

I now have a HTTP 404 error when i try http://xxxx.com/magento/install/

for those getting this message

“No input file specified.”

It means your .htaccess must be in the same directory as magento files.

the .htaccess IS in the same directory : /www/magento/.htaccess

I’m trying to install the new version of magento on :

- one server with php4 and i’ve got an error : No input file specified.
- one server with php5 and i’ve got an error : Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli_Exception Object ... exception ‘Mage_Core_Exception’ with message ‘Error in file.

Any ideas ?  and solutions ?

hii,

its not going on beyond

http://www.mydomain.com/mag/install/

when i check ‘ I agree to the above terms and condition”

and then click on Continue button, it just...stays on the same page ...it seems that it has just refreshed.

Suggest plz.

Regards,

Tarun

Hi

Just trying to download the http://www.magentocommerce.com/support/php5cgi/php5 file by right clicking and doing save as, but it seems to come as a text file and I cannot see how to download it otherwise.

Any assistance appreciated

Cheers

Wow, this is not very fun. Maybe a description of the logic would help that way each person can implement the above instructions per their scenario.

Hi, I need some help, plz!

I get an internal server error (everything ok, so far...) but then trying to launch install I start getting php errors:

Warning: Mage_Core_Block_Template::include(/home/rdredcom/public_html/magento06/app/design/install/default/default/template/page.phtml) [function.Mage-Core-Block-Template-include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/rdredcom/public_html/magento06/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php on line 116

Any ideas? suggestions? Tnx in advance

I keep getting this error message when I try to install the php5-cgi

AddHandler requires at least two arguments, a handler name followed by one or more file extensions

Any idea’s on how to fix this issue. I really like the software and want it to work.

i have copied all the setup files in subfolder.

but the cgi is in mail folder.....and the htaccess file also is in sub folder.
shall i change something...plz suggest.

take the cgi out of the mail folder. It should be in the same folder as you main script.

The main script has the files and folders that look like this
app
lib
skin
js
media
var
.htaccess
cron.php
index.php
favicon
LICENSE

This is where your cgi-bin folder should be. Don’t forget to also edit the .htaccess file that is in the same folder.

i have this system.

Operating system Linux
Kernel version 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp
Machine Type i686
Apache version 1.3.39 (Unix)
PERL version 5.8.8
Path to PERL /usr/bin/perl
Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
Installed Perl Modules Click to View
PHP version 4.4.4
MySQL version 4.1.22-standard

now...i have installed whole set up in main directory.......the installation’s first page…

Start Installation comes.,

i click on I agree check box, and then click on Continue.

it does not move further...it go to refresh and then again generates the same page

plz tell me the problem or i shall i remove magentocommerce from my server.

Warm Regards,

Tarun

hi if anyone needs help installing magento, i will help you free of charge.
i have installed magento on many many webhosts. some hosts required more tricks than others so i have a fairly good understanding of it.

just pm me if you need help.

tayun, that to me looks like you do not have .htaccess mod_rewrite working properly.
in order for magento to work, you need atleast, mod_rewrite and pdo_mysql modules.
i think you’d most likely need to switch hosts.

hello there,

i am using mod_rewrite , pdo_mysql on my other domains succesfully. No problem in that.

about switching to new server, is a tough job for me, as i am a reseller and having 30-40 sites running on my server.

Regards,

Tarun

When trying to install I get this: (I am using godady shared linux)

Error 500
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Invalid URI in request GET /xstore/ HTTP/1.1

I switched to (mt) Grid Service, and the index page takes 25 seconds to load up (!!), so I wanted to see if that was mostly the web server or Magento… however, I could not get Magento running on my old host’s PHP4 Linux system.  The notes for how to install the cgi-bin work around need to be updated, they conflict with other instructions, specifically where the file goes (I’ll make comments on the appropriate wiki page).

I have tried putting the file in /cgi-bin/php5-cgi and /magento/cgi-bin/php5-cgi (magento is off /).  The first way results in “cgi-bin/php5-cgi/index.php was not found” (yes, cdmod 755 was set for both directories), the second method gives an internal server error…

In any case, I gotta cancel that server now before I’m billed another $9 for January, lol. 

Well, my apologies.  I just figured out that I wasn’t supposed to put the module in a subdirectory called php5-cgi… Yes, I was putting php5-cgi inside of /cgi-bin/php5-cgi/, I don’t know why I thought that.  I got further in the install, but then there were a bunch of Zend errors, so I decided I decided to call that quits on that server. Hopefully this might help someone.

With the new version 0.7.14800 the .htaccess file has changed, and I think there is an small bug in first comented line:
#Action php5-cgi /cgi-bin/php-cgi
there shoud be
#Action php5-cgi /cgi-bin/php5-cgi
to work with PHP version < 5.2
Regards,
Miguel

Hi,

I also got the “Premature end of script headers: php5-cgi” problem.

- I checked the permissions for php5-cgi and for the cgi-bin folder (755)
- I checked http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/php5-cgi with a browser (500)
- I put the “5” in Action php5-cgi /cgi-bin/php5-cgi
- I again downloaded the php5-cgi (maybe the file was kurrupt)
- I rebooted my server
- I uncommented #SSLOptions StdEnvVars (because error_log said: .htaccess: SSLOptions not allowed here)

What can I do to solve my??? Thank you very much for helping..

peter

There’s something wrong with the cgi-bin file or your servers, i can’t seem to download it, it stops at 174kb?

the following file on your server:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/support/php5cgi/php5-cgi
can not be downloaded anymore.

In fact, it seems very difficult to get this one : php5-cgi
I got only 1.8 Mo of the 17,6 Mo
Pierre

4 days and still a problem. Can someone who has this file create a mirror?

if anyone wants to try another technique, I found one that my host (1and1.com) uses.

1. Open the “.htaccess” file
2. Add this as a new line “AddType x-mapp-php5 .php”
3. Save changes then reupload your “.htaccess” file to your server, and check if it worked.

-Theycallmeaustin.

Hi,

The binary file isn’t downloading properly, could you please amend this asap?

Cheers,

Michael