PHP stops working

Ezplan · 01-15-2009, 09:32 AM

Hi,

I'm running an office intranet on CentOS 5 with apache 2.2.3.
This AM it stopped processing php code. I just see the actual code echoed to the web page. I've restarted the server, the restarted the whole machine , problem still exists!

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

jonavogt · 01-15-2009, 09:38 AM

Have you run any (automatic) updates related to apache or php?

jax8 · 01-15-2009, 09:38 AM

You probably have not installed the apache-php module. This will allow apache to process php files. Can't remember the name exactly but do a search in your package manager.

rweaver · 01-15-2009, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ezplan

Hi,

I'm running an office intranet on CentOS 5 with apache 2.2.3.
This AM it stopped processing php code. I just see the actual code echoed to the web page. I've restarted the server, the restarted the whole machine , problem still exists!

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

At the prompt try typing "a2enmod php5 (or php4 if that's the case)" and see if that fixes your problem (make sure to stop and start apache.)

Ezplan · 01-15-2009, 10:20 AM

Thanks for all the quick responses!

"a2enmod ... " responds "command not found".

I've not run any updates, and nothing automatic as far as I know. I was tweaking the apache configuration via Webmin 1.4 last night just to have apache listen on an additional port to 80. I'm setting up eGroupware and wanted that accessed via a different port.

Just to be clear, all php based web pages were executing perfectly yesterday. Plain html pages are still rendering fine today, but displaying the php code, if any, on the web page.

TB0ne · 01-15-2009, 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ezplan

Thanks for all the quick responses!

"a2enmod ... " responds "command not found".

I've not run any updates, and nothing automatic as far as I know. I was tweaking the apache configuration via Webmin 1.4 last night just to have apache listen on an additional port to 80. I'm setting up eGroupware and wanted that accessed via a different port.

Just to be clear, all php based web pages were executing perfectly yesterday. Plain html pages are still rendering fine today, but displaying the php code, if any, on the web page.

It sounds like the php module isn't getting loaded when Apache comes up. Webmin is a great tool...but nothing beats editing files by hand to make sure things like this don't happen.

Take a look around on your system, and see if there's a backup copy of your Apache config file(s). Diff the two, and see what's changed...

Ezplan · 01-15-2009, 11:02 AM

Thanks TB0ne for the heads up!

I thought that php was statically compiled in the versions of apache > 2! Evidently NOT!
In reviewing the httpd.conf file directly I noticed that there was no LoadModule line for php, but there was a libphp5.so in /usr/lib/httpd/ modules!
So I manually added "LoadModule module_php5 modules/libphp5.so" to httpd.conf, restarted apache and voila!

The question was asked if I had updated apache or php. No, but yesterday I did update Webmin!!!! Then made the tweaks to my apache install! Then KABOOM!

Thanks again for all the help!

TB0ne · 01-15-2009, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ezplan

Thanks TB0ne for the heads up!

I thought that php was statically compiled in the versions of apache > 2! Evidently NOT!
In reviewing the httpd.conf file directly I noticed that there was no LoadModule line for php, but there was a libphp5.so in /usr/lib/httpd/ modules!
So I manually added "LoadModule module_php5 modules/libphp5.so" to httpd.conf, restarted apache and voila!

The question was asked if I had updated apache or php. No, but yesterday I did update Webmin!!!! Then made the tweaks to my apache install! Then KABOOM!

Thanks again for all the help!

No problem...glad I could help.