Re: apache and rewritten config files

["Monique Y. Herman" <monique@spam.bounceswoosh.org>]

Well, I just *noticed* it happening ... I had a half-baked install of
twiki and didn't remember what I'd done with/to it, so I ripped it out
and installed it again.  As twiki was reinstalling itself, it apparently
modified httpd.conf, once again dinking out the php4 line.

Now, why is it doing that?  Is it pulling a default httpd.conf from some
other location?  (And why, in any case, would a default httpd.conf *not*
have php4 enabled on a machine with php4 installed?)
--
monique

On Sunday, September 21 at  7:43 pm, Monique Y. Herman penned the following:
> It's possible that I have gremlins in my machine ...
>
> Okay, so, I don't look at the php pages on this machine all that often.
> But every now and then, I do so and find that -- poof! -- apache has
> forgotten how to render php, and consequently, anyone in the world can
> see the source to various pages.  Not to mention that they *can't* see
> the pages in question.
>
> It happens rarely enough that I have to re-discover how to fix it, which
> usually involves LoadModules and/or mime types ... but still ...
>
> Why is it happening at all?  How can I protect myself?
>
> (I'm running apache 1.3.27.1-3 and php 4:4.3.2+rc3-6 on an unstable box.
> Well, the box isn't unstable, but debian is ... well, you know what I
> mean.)
>
> No one but me has root, and I am reasonably certain that the box hasn't
> been compromised ... and if it had been, I'd be pretty surprised if the
> only change was a once every several month minor tweak to apache's conf
> files!
>
> --
> monique
>
>
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