Problem building php 4.4.6 and apache 1.3.37 on RHEL 4

[John Murtari]

Folks,

Trying to build php 4.4.6 and apache 1.3.37 on RHEL 4.
Each of them builds and installs okay, but when we start
apache we get:

Syntax error on line 238 of /usr/local/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
API module structure `php4_module' in file
/usr/local/etc/httpd/libexec/libphp4.so is garbled -
perhaps this is not an Apache module DSO?
I've checked this out, got some hint that we need to use
the apxs that came with RedHat, not the one built in the
Apache distribution? RedHat does have an http-devel package
which includes apxs but that is for Apache 2.x

Last time we did this on RHEL 4 is was Apache 1.3.34
and php 4.4.1 and it went fine, we are using the same
procedures. Not sure if some RHEL 4 libraries changed?

Has anyone been able to build that combination? Below
are some excerpts on what we are using for configure.
Thanks!
For apache:

../configure --with-layout=Apache --prefix=/usr/local/etc/httpd
--enable-suexec
.... some deleted...
--disable-module=asis --enable-shared=max
--enable-rule=SHARED_CORE --enable-module=so

For php:

CPPFLAGS="-DLINUX=22 -DEAPI" \
../configure \
--enable-static \
--disable-shared \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/httpd/conf \
--with-apxs=/usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/apxs \
.... some deleted.
--enable-mbstring=all \
--with-mhash=/export/tools/apache/php/ext/mhash
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John
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[C.]

On 25 Apr, 22:10, John Murtari <[e-mail]:

Folks,

Trying to build php 4.4.6 and apache 1.3.37 on RHEL 4.
Each of them builds and installs okay, but when we start
apache we get:

Syntax error on line 238 of /usr/local/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
API module structure `php4_module' in file
/usr/local/etc/httpd/libexec/libphp4.so is garbled -
perhaps this is not an Apache module DSO?

I've checked this out, got some hint that we need to use
the apxs that came with RedHat, not the one built in the
Apache distribution? RedHat does have an http-devel package
which includes apxs but that is for Apache 2.x

No - you either build or your Apache from source or use rpms never mix
and match. If you build apache from source then you build PHP from
source. Its probably OK to build PHP from source with a packaged
apache.

This error is commonly caused by using the wrong version of apxs or if
your modules are much newer than your apache.

Read these:

http://uk3.php.net/results.php?q=gar...ule&l=en&p=all

If your still having difficulties, what does ldd report for the
module?

C.

[lark]

C. wrote:

On 25 Apr, 22:10, John Murtari <[e-mail]:

>Folks,

Trying to build php 4.4.6 and apache 1.3.37 on RHEL 4.
Each of them builds and installs okay, but when we start
apache we get:

Syntax error on line 238 of /usr/local/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
API module structure `php4_module' in file
/usr/local/etc/httpd/libexec/libphp4.so is garbled -
perhaps this is not an Apache module DSO?

I've checked this out, got some hint that we need to use
the apxs that came with RedHat, not the one built in the
Apache distribution? RedHat does have an http-devel package
which includes apxs but that is for Apache 2.x

No - you either build or your Apache from source or use rpms never mix
and match. If you build apache from source then you build PHP from
source. Its probably OK to build PHP from source with a packaged
apache.

This error is commonly caused by using the wrong version of apxs or if
your modules are much newer than your apache.

Read these:

http://uk3.php.net/results.php?q=gar...ule&l=en&p=all

If your still having difficulties, what does ldd report for the
module?

C.

i second that. what happened in my case was that the version of apache
that i'd installed on my machine from source had installed to a
different location. the default version was what known to the system. in
my case, i had to replace the default version binaries with symbolic
links to the compiled version.

this can be happening to you as it sounds like you've compiled apache
from source with php. if the old apache is still there (regardless of
its running or not), it will interfere with your php compile. need to be
specific when passing config arguments to the php configuration.

hope this helps.

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[John Murtari]

>>
Trying to build php 4.4.6 and apache 1.3.37 on RHEL 4.
Each of them builds and installs okay, but when we start
apache we get:

Syntax error on line 238 of /usr/local/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
API module structure `php4_module' in file
/usr/local/etc/httpd/libexec/libphp4.so is garbled -
perhaps this is not an Apache module DSO?

I've checked this out, got some hint that we need to use
the apxs that came with RedHat, not the one built in the
Apache distribution? RedHat does have an http-devel package
which includes apxs but that is for Apache 2.x

No - you either build or your Apache from source or use rpms never mix
and match. If you build apache from source then you build PHP from
source. Its probably OK to build PHP from source with a packaged
apache.

This error is commonly caused by using the wrong version of apxs or if
your modules are much newer than your apache.

Read these:

http://uk3.php.net/results.php?q=gar...ule&l=en&p=all

If your still having difficulties, what does ldd report for the
module?

Okay, thanks for the tip. We were just building from
sources, but I took your suggestions and installed the newer
apache before building php and that cleared it up!
Thanks!

--
John
__________________________________________________ _________________
John Murtari Software Workshop Inc.
jmurtari@following domain 315.635-1968(x-211) "TheBook.Com" (TM)
http://thebook.com/