Hi all,

I'm running Slackware 8.1 on a P233. It's a recent install since my last server died on me, and I installed Apache and PHP during the initial Slack install. I'm running Apache 1.3.26 and PHP 4.2.1.

Apache was pretty much going with a few simple tweaks to httpd.conf. I knew PHP was installed, but tried to include mod_php.conf in httpd.conf to test it; at first it didn't work at all, and I got the error: "libmysqlclient.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". I did "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql" and the error went away, but it said mod_php was already loaded when I restarted httpd.

At this point, I have added index.php to my DirectoryIndex, and also added the line "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
" in httpd.conf, but I still cannot view PHP files on my web server. It's asking me if I want to download the index.php file, it's not handling it. But WHY?!?!

Also, when I run export LD_LIBRARY_PATH.... it doesn't stick. It stays until I log in againand I have to do it again if I want to reload httpd or I get the same error mentioned above.

Thanks a ton and I'm sorry if I didn't explain clearly.

First of all, I don't think you have to include mod_php.conf.
The reason you get that error is that the php module is loaded in the httpd.conf.

Check that you have these lines in httpd.conf:
LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so
AddModule mod_php4.c

If you have these lines you don't have to include mod_php.conf.
And since you have added the AddType..., it should work.

To check if php is running, you can do this after you have restarted your server:
lynx http://localhost -dump -head | grep Server

About the library thing, its much simpler and just add the library path in your /etc/ld.so.conf and just run ldconfig.

Thanks champ, I checked through my httpd.conf and I was not loading/adding the php module with the commands you gave. I'm not sure why it said it was already loaded when I tried the Include before though.

I added the path to ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig like you said yesterday and it didn't work. It said it could not find the file.... although I can only suspect permissions but I did it as root. I'll look into it some more because I have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH every time to load httpd...

Thanks for the help

Same problem, but what if I don't have MySQL and
just want to use PHP for testing or other than
database access? Can PHP be loaded w/o MySQL?

You can use PHP without MySQL, but you may have to recompile PHP without MySQL support. I don't think there's a way to disable it in the conf files or php.ini.

Someone with a little more experience may be able to correct me though

Went ahead and installed MySQL 3.23.52. I notice there is no libmysqlclient.so.10
only libmysqlclient.a in the distribution. Does this mean that I will have to use
APXS to compile a DSO in order to get the right file or is it located somewhere
else. NOTE: I just downloaded the binary and installed it.

I'm not sure, I compiled MySQL on my machine.

If you haven't already, try 'find / -name libmysqlclient.so.10' to make sure it's not hidden somewhere.

If it isn't there, and you are able to use apxs to create the DSO from libmysqlclient.a then I would think it would work, but I have never used apxs.