title: Adding PHP to Apache
body: <p>Where I work, we use ancient technology that belongs in a museum. Further I have to get everything done through system admins.</p>
  
  <p>They are telling me in order to get PHP, they will need to upgrade the operating system as well as the Apache version.</p>
  
  <pre><code>lcas100[67]% uname -a
  Linux lcas100 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:26:27 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
  lcas100[68]% cat /etc/*-release
  LSB_VERSION="1.3"
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant)
  lcas100[75]% /ots/apache/bin/httpd -v
  Server version: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix)
  Server built:   Nov  3 2004 18:47:31
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This doesn't make sense to me because apparently Apache 1.3.x supports PHP:
  <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache.php" rel="nofollow">http://php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache.php</a></p>
  
  <p>Furthermore, we have another machine that runs PHP and is running the exact same OS and OS version. The reason I want it on the former machine is because it is mounted on a different file system.</p>
  
  <p>Lastly they tell me that all software the Apache webserver runs will need to be reinstalled/recompiled (assuming an Apache upgrade WAS needed). I am not even sure about this.</p>
  
  <p>Are they full of it? Thanks</p>