[RESOLVED] Question about PHP mod in Apache

[Raptor2552]

I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy and loaded Apache2 and PHP5. After the upgrade and reload, Apache would not serve PHP files until I commented out 2 lines in the php5.conf file in /etc/apache2/mods-available/mods-enabled

#<IfModule mod_php5.c>
  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3
  AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
#</IfModule>

No where on my system could I find mod_php5.c; I did find in /usr/lib/apache2/modules libphp5.so.

1.What is mod_php5.c?
2. What is Apache looking for?
3. Where is this set?
4. Can anyone explain how this works?

[bpat1434]

mod_php5.c is the statically compiled php module. So when you compiled php, you added it as a staticly linked object, instead of a dynamic shared object (DSO).

A DSO will have the extension .so for "shared object" which is the typical way PHP is loaded (so that you can just uncomment the line LoadModule php5_module ... to remove php). You can compile php into Apache so it can't be unloaded "accidentally" and that's when you get mod_php5.c

So if you've compiled PHP to be a shared object (loaded at Apache start-up), then you'd want to look for libphp5.so. If it's a static link, you can look for the module mod_php5.c. Understand?

[Raptor2552]

Yes, I do understand. I used Synaptic Package Manager to install all the software and so, don't have mod_php5.c but instead libphp5.so.

Thank you much

Very good explanation BTW

Edit:
I made the substitution, restarted Apache2 and every thing works fine

<IfModule libphp5.so>
  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3
  AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>

[bradgrafelman]

Raptor2552 wrote:

Very good explanation BTW

No kidding - better than I could've done!

Anyway, don't forget to mark this thread resolved.