[gentoo-dev] News item: Apache "-D PHP5" needs update to "-D PHP"

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hi!


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Title: Apache "-D PHP5" needs update to "-D PHP"
Author: Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>
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Posted: 2016-01-04
Revision: 1
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Display-If-Installed: app-eselect/eselect-php[apache2]

With >=app-eselect/eselect-php-0.8.1, to enable PHP support
for Apache 2.x file /etc/conf.d/apache2 no longer
needs to read

  APACHE2_OPTS="......... -D PHP5"

but

  APACHE2_OPTS="......... -D PHP"

, i.e. without "5" at the end.  This change is related to
unification in context of the advent of PHP 7.x.

With that change, guard "<IfDefine PHP>" in file
/etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php.conf
has a chance to actually pull in PHP support.

Without updating APACHE2_OPTS, websites could end up serving
PHP code (include configuration files with passwords)
unprocessed to website visitors!


The origin of this news item is:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569042
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Best



Sebastian