I am installing apache, mysql, and php. I have looked several places for the error that I receive when I try and install php, which is
cannot access `/usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so'
when I run make install. I am running 64 bit Gentoo.
I looked around the internet, and most of the responses to my problem are in a different language, which doesn't help much. I found one that talked about copying certain files from /usr/lib64 to /usr/lib, but I was missing one of those files. Here are my ./configure commanders for both apache and php.

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql --enable-shared

./configure --enable-auth-dbm --enable-headers --enable-info --enable-speling --enable-ssl --enable-so

What command do you get to receive that error?

Can you post the output from:
ls -l /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so

ls: /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so: No such file or directory


The command is make install

Does the modules directory exist?
ls -l /usr/local/apache2/modules/

Are you installing as root?

ls -l /usr/local/apache2/modules/
total 13488
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8454 Nov 19 09:11 httpd.exp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13771816 Nov 19 09:50 libphp5.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 828 Nov 19 09:50 libphp5.la


Yeah, I am installing as root. I have run both find and locate to see if the libphp5.so was installed somewhere else, but no dice. What should create it, and what would cause it not to be created

When you run make install it should create it.

Try running "make clean && ./configure && make && make install". What is the last thing you can see on the screen?

Build complete.
(It is safe to ignore warnings about tempnam and tmpnam).

Installing PHP SAPI module: apache2handler
/usr/local/apache2/build/instdso.sh SH_LIBTOOL='/usr/local/apache2/build/libtool' libphp5.la /usr/local/apache2/modules
/usr/local/apache2/build/libtool --mode=install cp libphp5.la /usr/local/apache2/modules/
cp .libs/libphp5.lai /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.la
cp .libs/libphp5.a /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.a
ranlib /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.a
chmod 644 /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.a
libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /home/gravesb/src/php-5.0.5/libs'
Warning! dlname not found in /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.la.
Assuming installing a .so rather than a libtool archive.
chmod 755 /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so': No such file or directory
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536
.
make: *** [install-sapi] Error 1

From a bit of research it looks like it's an issue with 64bit systems keeping libraries in a different path. See the fix at:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27795#c83708

Thank you. I don't understand why the bz2 file worked, and the gzip file did not.

Is there a special order needed to emerge php and apache? I did it on my previous server (2.4, forgot the emerge-order) and now, on a new machine, amd64, I tried to emerge php and apache. After some fiddling and walking around I seem to be missing libphp5.so.

sumatra # ls -l /usr/local/apache2/modules/
ls: cannot access /usr/local/apache2/modules/: No such file or directory

Actually when i restart apache I get
sumatra # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
* Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files:
Syntax error on line 5 of /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php.conf:
Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/extramodules/libphp5.so into server: /usr/lib/apache2/extramodules/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It puzzles me that this is called a syntax error?

My 70_mod_php_conf:
<IfDefine PHP5>

# Load the module first
<IfModule !sapi_apache2.c>
LoadModule php5_module extramodules/libphp5.so
</IfModule>
[...]

If anybody knows what I possibly did wrong (I only emerged php, apache, mysql, ssh, libgd, no fancy other commands) please give me some advice. That would be highly appreciated.
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I am not that handy in Linux but I found my way on the old server. Now many small things changed I must have lost it:-) It worked so well that after 300 days, I only reset the toko to add a disk and now we're a good 613 days up. But the box is too slow for my sql/php tasks on 333 Mhz. So I decided to get me a new 1500 Mhz AMD.

Is the libphp5.so file on your computer anywhere? If so, you should be able to copy it over to the target directory, or change your apache config file to point to the correct location.

I'll try and find it, good point. I forgot to tell I use Gentoo Linux and most of the time it just works after emerging and /etc/init.d/restart xxx. That the nice thing. That's why I'm so confused now.

Hi guys. Googling “cannot access `/usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so': No such file or directory” shows up this outdated post. To spear ppl crawling through the web I'll resurrect the subject.
The point is that apache is missing PHP5 module. In the case of debian it is "apt-get install libapache2-mod-php". Once the module is installed compiling works fine.

Yup I googled the same and now I am here.

But there is no better place to find the answer. I get that my libphp5.so is missing from my apache/modules. I am on CentOS 5.7 with Apache 2.2, trying to compile PHP. but my "sudo make install" fails with the same error:
I am expecting libphp5.so to generate automatically as I am installing it from source.