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 I really think they need to revise this page-

 I mean, seriously... is the man shaking a "doctor's" "hand"? What's being dramatized?

I think the shilling that the drug companies is what they have to do to stay alive with their current business model... I hate it nonetheless. And when they have to follow it up with a dramatization warning... on a handshake no less... it kind of makes you wonder what your relationship to your own doctor really is these days.

So I've pretty much put my life on hold the last 36 hours as I banged my head against a wall not understanding why I couldn't get php to work in apache on a 4.6 install of OpenBSD.

I mean, they make it pretty simple. And yet I've found a way to screw it up. And it's not the first time I've done this, either. That is, in fact, the reason for this particular blog post. I never want to forget what the magic mix again, not that there should be one. What's really mind-numbing is that somehow I've gotten it to work just as often as I've managed to screw it up- on the order of 20 to 30 times in production over the last couple of years. Crazy, eh?

Now it's not that php wouldn't work at all. Quite to the contrary, it would work just fine in the cli, running php scripts and spitting out it's version. But when a simple phpinfo.php was parsed in any browser apache would return a blank screen.

The following is an installation guide for Cacti on OpenBSD. The versions used as of this writing are Cacti 0.8.7e and OpenBSD 4.6.

All steps will be given here, including supporting applications that need to be installed and configured. I'll even come back and clean up the two images above, because I realize they are ugly.