Very confused over Apache / PHP issue

stokes · 02-04-2006, 08:39 AM

OK .. before I start beating my head against a wall I need some ideas on a strange Apache issue.

I installed Apache, PHP and MySQL using the tutorial from this site, and packages from LinuxPackages.net.

Apache works just fine on it's own, but when I add this line in the httpd.conf and restart Apache, it starts but stops immediately.

Code:

Include /etc/apache2/mod_php.conf

This is what my /etc/apache2/mod_php.conf looks like:

Code:

#
# mod_php - PHP Hypertext Preprocessor module
#

LoadModule php5_module lib/apache2/libphp5.so

# Tell Apache to feed all *.php files through the PHP module
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml

# This will display PHP files in colored syntax form.  Use with caution.
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

My /var/log/apache2/error_log does not show any errors at all.

Any ideas anyone?

mdarby · 02-04-2006, 10:50 AM

Does /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages say anything?
You could just add the text from mod_php.conf to httpd.conf; it might be a permissions issue.

stokes · 02-04-2006, 11:24 AM

Thanks for the suggestions, no luck so far though. There was nothing useful in /var/log/messages or syslog.

I tried commenting out the mod_php line and adding the lines from there one by one to my httpd.conf, and it is definitely this line which is making it fall over:

Code:

LoadModule php5_module lib/apache2/libphp5.so

I did a "chmod 777" on libphp5.so just to make sure Apache isn't having any problems accessing this file, but it didn't help.

mdarby · 02-04-2006, 01:21 PM

In my httpd.conf I have:

Code:

LoadModule php5_module        modules/libphp5.so

I also have libphp5.so in various locations:

Code:

/usr/lib/apache2/libphp5.so
/usr/src/php-5.1.2/libs/libphp5.so
/usr/src/php-5.1.2/.libs/libphp5.so
/usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so

Are you sure this is pointing to the correct one?

stokes · 02-05-2006, 03:50 AM

Yep .. it's pointing to a good location. To test this I renamed the file and tried starting apache again:

Code:

# apachectl restart
Syntax error on line 1071 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/modules/libphp5.so into server: /usr/modules/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm at the point where I think I might completely remove Apache, MySQL and PHP and recompile them manually from tarballs. Unless you can think of anything else I could try?

peterb · 02-05-2006, 07:24 AM

In case you haven't checked the following:

On my system, the mod_php.conf file is owner root and group root with 644 permissions.
As for libphp5.so, the file shows owner root and group root with 755 permissions.

Peter

mdarby · 02-05-2006, 09:32 AM

I would try changing your LoadModule line in httpd.conf to this:

Code:

LoadModule php5_module        modules/libphp5.so

All of the webservers I preside over have this exact line. I'm willing to be that "lib/apache2/libphp5.so" isn't the correct location.