Trouble on Solaris 8

[Mark Nelson]

Hi all,

I'm installing Apache 2.2, PHP 5.04, and mySQL 4.0.21 on a Solaris 8
machine using prebuilt binaries from sunfreeware.com.

My apache install went smoothly - the only thing I'm having to work
around is an inability to use /usr/local - it's an NFS mount to a
central image, so I'm installing in /opt/local.

After installing PHP and modifying httpd.conf, I get the following
error on startup:

httpd: Syntax error on line 110 of /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:
API module structure `php5_module' in file
/opt/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so is garbled - perhaps this is not
an Apache module DSO?

Now, I have to confess that I don't have mysql installed yet, but I
would think that simply loading the php module wouldn't require this,
would it?

A search for this message shows one other user has seen it recently,
but no resolution online.

No hint in /var/apache/logs - no mention of php at all in any of the
logs.

Any clues as to what could be causing this?

Mark Nelson - markn at i triple e dot org

[Michael Austin]

Mark Nelson wrote:

Hi all,

I'm installing Apache 2.2, PHP 5.04, and mySQL 4.0.21 on a Solaris 8
machine using prebuilt binaries from sunfreeware.com.

My apache install went smoothly - the only thing I'm having to work
around is an inability to use /usr/local - it's an NFS mount to a
central image, so I'm installing in /opt/local.

After installing PHP and modifying httpd.conf, I get the following
error on startup:

httpd: Syntax error on line 110 of /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:
API module structure `php5_module' in file
/opt/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so is garbled - perhaps this is not
an Apache module DSO?

Now, I have to confess that I don't have mysql installed yet, but I
would think that simply loading the php module wouldn't require this,
would it?

A search for this message shows one other user has seen it recently,
but no resolution online.

No hint in /var/apache/logs - no mention of php at all in any of the
logs.

Any clues as to what could be causing this?
I would make sure you downloaded the proper libphp5.so (and you transferred it
in a binary mode) On what platform is your Solaris running? Intel, SPARC, other?

Also there is/should be an apacheserver.log file in the top-level apache
directory /opt/local/apache2 in your case.

Mark Nelson - markn at i triple e dot org

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[Mark Nelson]

>I would make sure you downloaded the proper libphp5.so

Thanks Michael, I checked that and it matches up with what I expect for
my SPARC system:

# file /usr/local/bin/bash modules/libphp5.so bin/httpd
/usr/local/bin/bash: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1,
dynamically linked, stripped
modules/libphp5.so: ELF 32-bit MSB dynamic lib SPARC Version 1,
dynamically linked, not stripped
bin/httpd: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically
linked, not stripped

I would assume that it was transferred properly as it was installed out
of a Solaris package, not as a raw binary.

Also there is/should be an apacheserver.log file in the top-level apache
directory /opt/local/apache2 in your case.

No such log - either I'm not getting far enough in startup or it may
need a define to override the location built into httpd.

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[Kjell Mesch]

I have the same problem.
Can't find any solution :-(

/kjell