I have done every thing that the PHP manual tells me, but when I trie to start apache I get this error msg:

Syntax error on line 205 of /www/conf/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /www/libexec/libphp4.so into server: /www/libexec/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: core_globals
./apachectl start: httpd could not be started

Hmmm , What can I have done wrong?

version of apache / php

rpm or .tar.gz?

MySQL v3.23.51
PHP 4.2.1

And they are .tar.gz

is the module libphp4.so in the apache/.../libexec/ or is it missing? what options did u use installing apache?

hmm... i've got the same problem and i don't think, that the error is in the compilation of apache!

turn out the lines in httpd.conf where php will be included and start the server: it works!

i guess that there has something to be configured in the compilation of php... but i don't know

the file is at the right place and as the error-msg tells me, there has to be something defined: core_globals

but WHERE??

if someone knows help i would be happy to get an email to L.Mahlstedt@gmx.net or LMahlstedt@Landkreis-Nienburg.de

thanks a lot!

post-configure-line

I've found the misstake!

I compiled PHP with this parameter: --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib and the compilation ends well.

I decided to let this parameter out of the config-tag, because I had an compiled PHP4 running before. After the new compilation the Apache startet!!

So I was looking for the problem and recognized that there are much more LIBs in /usr/lib than in /usr/local/lib. All the files included in /usr/local/lib are also included in /usr/lib!

I compiled PHP (again!) with the right parameter: --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib and startet Apache -->

SUCCESS!!!

I hope that you may resolve this problem the same way