Apache - cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Braynid · 03-26-2008, 04:31 AM

Hey,

I've just purchased a dedicated web-hosting server that had nothing installed on it. So I went there and installed a standard CentOS 5 distro on it, but when I try to do a 'service httpd start' I get the following error:

Code:

Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 171 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_auth.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_auth.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
                                                           [FAILED]

I've tried to comment out that mod but it does the same with the next, I have no idea why it won't work. It's brand new installed and since the installation I never managed to get it working at all.

Can you please help?!

Tanks.

acid_kewpie · 03-26-2008, 04:44 AM

well why not actually address the error message... does mod_auth.so exist or not?

Braynid · 03-26-2008, 04:53 AM

Well no, I've looked in '/etc/httpd/modules' and there I only found "mod_auth_basic.so,mod_auth_digest.so" for mod_auth.
I really don't know why a fresh install of apache would reference inexistent modules, but that's that.

I see that 'mod_auth_digest.so' is already in the httpd.conf, should I add mod_auth_basic instead of mod auth? IF so can you please point me to where can I find the necessary syntax?

Tanks

acid_kewpie · 03-26-2008, 05:00 AM

check this... http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/...12614&forum=37 would seem you've used system-config-httpd or some such which isn't apache 2.2 compatible yet...

Braynid · 03-26-2008, 06:52 AM

Thanks for the link.

It seems that the guys over there say it's a problem with the GUI editor for the httpd.conf in the 5.1 distro of CentOS.

Quote:

After trying some things, found that the GUI creates a .bak of the original httpd.conf file. The .bak file is for Apache 2.2. Quick renames and the default page will open after successfully starting httpd. Now just a matter of editing the httpd.conf to point to where I really need. So it appears the GUI interface for httpd configuration is not appropriate for use in this release.

The problem is that they don't give an exact resolution to this and I don't know exactly how to edit the httpd configuration file so that it points correctly and apache starts.

Can you point me to some resources so that I can make apache work?

acid_kewpie · 03-26-2008, 06:56 AM

well it states that a bak would be made, so you should be able to just revert to that. alternatively if you've not used apache at all yet, just remove and reinstall it if you get in a mess. Another alternative could be to only use the 2.0 branch and the gui tool should still work.

Braynid · 03-26-2008, 11:35 AM

In the end the solution was to restore the .bak config. Besides, you should not use the Gnome httpd.conf editor until the bug is fixed.