Cannot run PHP script under Tomcat - php

Question

Am using Tomcat 6. I have installed PHP and try to get PHP running inside Tomcat with PHP/JavaBridge. I have deployed JavaBridge.war inside Tomcat's webapps directory. When running any PHP script, I will get this error below. Please help and I thank you for your assistance.
This was how I configure PHP:
./configure --with-mime-magic
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/Zend/etc
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs
--with-libxml-dir=/usr
--with-mhash=/usr/local
--with-bz2=/usr
--with-curl=/usr
--with-gettext=/usr
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql
--with-mcrypt=/usr/local
--enable-magic-quotes
--enable-bcmath
--enable-calendar
--enable-ftp
--enable-sockets
--enable-wddx
--enable-mbstring
--enable-zip
--enable-exif
--with-gd=/usr
--with-freetype-dir=/usr
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr
--with-png-dir=/usr
--enable-gd-native-ttf
--enable-fastcgi
--enable-force-cgi-redirect
The error msgs from Tomcat as follows:
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented
it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException:
php.java.bridge.http.FCGIConnectException: Could not connect to server
php.java.servlet.fastcgi.FastCGIServlet.init(FastCGIServlet.java:133)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:861)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:579)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1584)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) root cause
php.java.bridge.http.FCGIConnectException: Could not connect to server
php.java.bridge.http.SocketChannelFactory.test(SocketChannelFactory.java:58)
php.java.servlet.fastcgi.FastCGIServlet.init(FastCGIServlet.java:131)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:861)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:579)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1584)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) root cause
java.io.IOException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
php.java.bridge.http.FCGIConnectException.(FCGIConnectException.java:37)
php.java.bridge.http.SocketChannelFactory.test(SocketChannelFactory.java:58)
php.java.servlet.fastcgi.FastCGIServlet.init(FastCGIServlet.java:131)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:861)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:579)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1584)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) root cause
java.io.IOException: PHP not found. Please install php-cgi. PHP test
command was: [php-cgi, -v]
php.java.bridge.Util$Process.start(Util.java:1145)
php.java.servlet.fastcgi.FCGIProcess.start(FCGIProcess.java:68)
php.java.bridge.http.SocketChannelFactory.doBind(SocketChannelFactory.java:125)
php.java.bridge.http.FCGIConnectionFactory.runFcgi(FCGIConnectionFactory.java:88)
php.java.bridge.http.FCGIConnectionFactory$1.run(FCGIConnectionFactory.java:109)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache
Tomcat/6.0.29 logs.
Apache Tomcat/6.0.29

Answer 1

I had the same error as yours,
the key point you are missing here is :
PHP CLI(Command Line Interface) needs to be setup to work with java-php
bridge
as you claim to have installed PHP(any means XAMPP/WAMP)
Go through the following steps :
Add PHP to PATH environment variable - Help
Confirm the configuration by Run CMD>
php-cgi -v
By the above command you will see PHP version info
Restart Tomcat
PHP/JavaBridge should start working after this.

Answer 2

I had the same problem. Another suggestion had been to add
-Dphp.java.bridge.php_exec=/usr/bin/php
to the command line. Instead, I modified the JAVA_OPTS export in my catalina.sh file to add it. That didn't work, but I combined it with the suggestion above and added
-Dphp.java.bridge.php_exec=/usr/bin/php-cgi
to catalina.sh. I bounced the server and connected to server/JavaBridgeTemplate621/ and got the PHP/Java Bridge settings page.

Answer 3

Reinstall and enable fastcgi it worked for me!