help installing PHP5 for Apache

blizunt7 · 11-02-2005, 07:38 AM

Hey all,

I am running apache 2.0.54 and I am trying to install PHP support.
I have downloaded php, unzip, configured, make, and make install.
copied the ini file to /usr/local/lib

and tried added this to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Code:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/libphp5.so

when i try to start the httpd service via.. /etc/init.d/httpd start
it fails, with no error message.

Can anyone help me.
THanks so much.
JOsh

fouldsy · 11-02-2005, 07:46 AM

Do you not need to put the full path to the php module into your httpd.conf? Also, if you try running

Code:

apachectl configtest

it should run through checking the apache config file and let you know of any errors. I'm not sure if it checks modules are in the right place though.

blizunt7 · 11-02-2005, 07:58 AM

Yes running the configtest throws an error:

Code:

Syntax error on line 190 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /etc/httpd/libexec/libphp5.so into server: /etc/httpd/libexec/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i tried locating the php module and did not find it...i have downloaded the tar file to my home directory (a sub folder) extracted it there, and ran the configs there. Should the module have been automatically placed elsewhere??

Thanks

fouldsy · 11-02-2005, 09:29 AM

Can't remember where it should off the top of me head. Try (as root):

Code:

updatedb

and then

Code:

locate libphp5.so

to find where it is located. Adjust your httpd.conf file accordingly so that it looks to right place, then do the apachectl configtest again.

blizunt7 · 11-02-2005, 09:39 AM

Yes, i already have done that. and found nothing.

Might i have done something wrong in the configuration? i dont understand.
I ran the configuration script, ran make, and make install.

SHould i try something else.

thanks for the help.

graemef · 11-02-2005, 02:14 PM

Hi,

Just been looking at my system:

libphp5.so

is in /etc/httpd/modules

My apacher config file has the following lines:

Code:

#
# Load config files from the config directory "/etc/httpd/conf.d".
#
Include conf.d/*.conf

And in the conf.d directory there is a php.conf file as follows:

Code:

#
# PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it
# easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages.
#

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so

#
# Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension.
#
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php

#
# Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory
# indexes.
#
DirectoryIndex index.php

#
# Uncomment the following line to allow PHP to pretty-print .phps
# files as PHP source code:
#
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

The only reference to php that I have in httpd.conf is a directory index line that I had added.

I hope that can help you.

graeme.

blizunt7 · 11-03-2005, 10:59 AM

HMM.

I just check in my /etc/http/modules directory, and the php module is not in it??
So im thinking i did something wrong during the configuration, but i dont know what.

I know very vague, but any help?
thanks