Invalid command ‘Script’ in Apache configuration

Harald Kraft — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:14:00 +0000

While I was trying to allow some tool’s PHP file to perform the HTTP command PUT, the tool’s manual said to put the following code in the httpd.conf Apache configuration file:
Script PUT /some.php

And so I did. But when I tried to reload Apache’s configuration (/etc/init.d/apache2 reload), Apache complained with the following message:

Invalid command ‘Script’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
failed!

At this point in time, Google didn’t have any results for the error string, and this is why I am actually writing this blog entry.

Searching for Apache2′s directive Script got me to this Apache doc where you can see that the directive Script is part of the module mod_actions.
As already mentioned in the error message, a module was not included, now I knew that it would probably be the mod_actions module. Enabling the module by symlinking it from mods-enabled to mods-available made the error message disappear and everything working just fine:

ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/actions.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/actions.load
ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/actions.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/actions.conf

Hope this helps to offer a quick solution for the error message.

Btw, while looking for fixes, I stumpled across this page, which offers further information about how to use Apache’s Script directive.

Twitter PHP script

Harald Kraft — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:19:25 +0000

I wrote this PHP script in order to include the latest tweets from my Twitter on my website. It retrieves the RSS feed, parses it and pastes a number of tweets (along with timestamp and link) to HTML.

[[ OLD:
Before I can / want to release it under some free software license, I would appreciate it if some of you PHP nerds could review the code. I am mainly concerned about security issues rather than formatting and coding style. Since I am no pro in PHP coding, I will probably have done some things quite clumsily.

So please point out security problems as well as other major issues. (For example, if anybody knows how to stop parsing after max items were dealt which, please let me know ).
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[UPDATE 07/08/2009]
(HTTP) Links are now made clickable.
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[UPDATE 15/12/2009]
The script was released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License today.
Download the PHP code at http://blog.haraldkraft.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/parsetwitter.php_.txt and feel free to reuse and tweak my script (along with mentioning my name as suggested in the license information in the code).
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Invalid command ‘Script’ in Apache configuration

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