Installing PHP4 as a Loadable Module of Apache

[Anon]

I currently have Apache, PHP3, and MySQL running and I need to upgrade to PHP4. I did the ./configure and ran meks. Now when I run make install I get the following error:

Error: file libs/libphp4.sl is not a DSO

Any ideas why this is not working?

[Anon]

it may be because you didn't pass the "--with-apxs" switch to the configure program..

I have also found that changing the configure without removing the previously compiled objects does not return the expected results.

i had to delete the php... directory, untar again and re-configure with new switches before I got the desired result..

hope this helps..

[Anon]

I ran my ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs

But still got the same error. As a matter of fact, I get it every time I do it.

Everything works fine, but make install fails.

Why?

Because "in my case" I am running it in a server running HP-UX OS which causing this hickup when "make install" seeing libphp4.sl instead of libphp4.so (typically in Linux OS environment).

Only solution I found so far was to install it statically which I HATE to do! Why can't I use DSO??? Come on PHP guru...any pointers?

[Anon]

Oh, I forgot to mention what you can do to bypass this problem (unless of course you are choosing the "static" route or pre-compiled binary")

rename the libphp4.sl file to so and try the following...

apxs -i -a -n php4 libs/libphp4.so

one of these days I have to really look into a resolution to this problem. I only remember this when I run into this ;P

Regards
Impu