I upgraded Apache (1.3.33) and PHP a few weeks ago but neglected to actually restart the server until today. Apparently, I broke something earlier.

At first the PHP module wasn't loading and Apache was giving errors that it couldn't find it. No sweat, I just reinstalled PHP quickly with pkgtool.

Apache loads fine now and actually serves pages and allows PHP to parse except for a single directory (that heavily uses mod_rewrite) on a single VirtualHost.

When I run a configtest on Apache I get this:

The pages that have an issue are only a single directory and only when using Firefox. Firefox is treating them as if I have no MIME type specified and trying to download them. IE works fine with it...

You didn't say whether you installed some pre-compiled packages or you compiled form source. I've not had that error before but I would hazard a guess that you have not updated mod_rewrite and apache is trying to use the version from the previous package.

If you installed from packages there may be a mod_rewrite package to install

If you compiled from sources, recompile and make sure that you enable mod_rewrite during configuration `./configure --help` for more details

Well I hate to say but I'm not sure. I used Swaret to remove it and re-install it (I removed Apache from /var/swaret/) but I didn't give it any arguments. Even though I've been using Slackware for a few years now I haven't had to do too much gnitty gritty with it.

Either way, I did find out that there were several .so files in a new directory under /libexec/apache.

I updated that in my httpd.conf and voila.... it worked again without any odd happenings.

If anyone wants to shed some more light so I can further my understanding of Swaret it would be greatly appreciated. Or maybe there is a more preferred method?

Thanks for the reply.