How to get PHP4 working on OpenBSD

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How to get PHP4 working on OpenBSD
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How to get PHP4 working on OpenBSD. I'm using PHP for nagios and my browser kept trying to download the PHP files instead of running them. No good. This is how to make it work.

(I'm doing this as root, probably a bad practice)
First, install PHP using ports:

 # pkg_add php4-core-4.4.1p3

Install the apache modules:

 # /usr/local/sbin/phpxs -s

Copy the php.ini file into the config directory:

 # cp /usr/local/share/examples/php4/php.ini-recommended /var/www/conf/php.ini

Reboot Apache:

 # apachectl restart

I put a test script into my root directory called "something.php", it contains the following:

 # cat /var/www/htdocs/something.php
 <html>
 <head>
 <title> PHP Test Script </title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <?php
 phpinfo( );
 ?>
 </body>
 </html>

I navigate here:

http://my_machine/something.php

And see something like this:
php working

If you see something like that, it means things are working. Congrats!
(This is largely being put here to remind myself how to do it. This is probably pretty incomplete.)

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