What's the httpd_module name so that Apache/Httpd works with PHP 5.5?

Question

I've been having some issues installing PHP 5.5 on a CentOS machine using Chef . I was finally able to install it, but when I access the index.php it just download a file with the content.

I'm guessing it's because Apache (technically Httpd, as I'm with CentOS) doesn't have mod_php installed/configured.

I installed PHP using php cookbook with the following packages:

# ... code to add webtatic repository to yum

node.set['php']['packages'] = ['php55w', 'php55w-devel', 'php55w-cli', 'php55w-snmp', 'php55w-soap', 'php55w-xml', 'php55w-xmlrpc', 'php55w-process', 'php55w-mysqlnd', 'php55w-pecl-memcache', 'php55w-opcache', 'php55w-pdo', 'php55w-imap', 'php55w-mbstring']

If I'm right, the code above didn't install mod_php . The following is my web chef recipe:

httpd_service 'apps' do
    mpm 'prefork'
    action [:create, :start]
    listen_ports ['80', '443']
end

# ... code for virtual hosts

# Install the mod_php Apache module.
# httpd_module 'php' do
#    instance 'apps'
# end

I had the httpd_module 'php' directive uncommented when using PHP 5.4. What's the correct name for the http_module to work with PHP 5.5?

Answer 1

It looks like you've found one of the people who went the Debian route and set their packages up as php55- instead of php- . That makes things a pain if you want to go from 5.5 to any higher version, because you're having to uninstall those and install the new ones (ie php70- ).

Instead I recommend switching your recipe to the Remi repo and use the php- packages.

All that having been said, php55w is your base PHP package. I don't see a php55w-common package tho. Try adding that (or php-common ) and that should get it into Apache.