It is running nicely (see
link from above). That's the funny part. From the updater's perspective, everything is perfect.
As far as I can tell, I'm running PHP version 4.3.10 (it came with Slackware)
I've moved a copy of phpinfo.php into the pmx directory. I also put a copy of petition.php as source.txt to make it easier for me to look it over.
I don't know enough php yet to know if 'mode' and 'action' are being used as variables or if they are functions/commands in php.
And, like I said, I'm so new with apache that I really don't know if I've got anything set up right. You wouldn't believe the troubles I ran into trying to get a cgi upload working in my /upload dir. You can check it out by telling it yesIdo and letmein when it prompts. Putting that together taught me about .htaccess files and why ftp ascii mode is important when moving text-cgi files.
Edit: There's now a log.php in the pmx folder. I got tired of typing the command to display the error log, so I found a php script that'll display it for me. I tried to make one up, but I wasn't quite doing it correctly.