Apache 1.3.12mdk, MySQL, PHP4

Anon

I got the silly Apache/Advanced Extranet Server package from Mandrake and installed that as my webserver. PHP3 worked no problem out of the box. Then I tried PHP4. I tried several RPMs before giving up.

Apache would restart fine with no errors in error_log. Great. But if I requested a .php page, child processes of Apache would start segfaulting. This is a problem I don't know how to fix, so I removed the php RPMs and downloaded the source. It compiled cleanly AFAIK, and I did a 'make install' to get going.

Apache just pukes while trying to load the module I compiled:

Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/libphp4.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: __dn_expand

What the hell is that? It compiled cleanly... does Apache not recognize this as a valid module for some odd reason? My hair is turning grey.

Anon

Matt,

I was having the same issue on a RedHat 6.1 system. Found out that I had to move the PHP module callout in the httpd.conf to the first one on the list.

Bugs me that there are a lot of other people complaining about the same problem and a lot of RTFM's going on about installing Apache+PHP+MySQL, but I have not found this fix in any manual that I have seen to date.

Hope this works for you.

Regards,

Brian

Anon

Are you sure your glibc header files are in the same generation as your glibc library files?

I ask because I had the same problem (unresolved symbol __dn_expand) today while recompiling php4 - and I DIDN'T have that problem when I first compiled it two weeks ago.

The problem boiled down to this: I'm using the glibc-2.1.3-21 libraries, but I had a major brain malfunction recently, and I accidentally installed the glibc-devel-2.1.94-3 headers (I use a cable-modem-connected computer to download and store upgrades for RedHat 6.2 AND 7).

I forcibly reinstalled the proper header files (rpm -Uvh --force glibc-devel-2.1.3-21.rpm), removed the php4 config.cache file, ran "make clean", then repeated the "./configure --with-apxs" - "make" - "make install" cycle - and apache started successfully with the new php4 module.

I hope this helps.

Anon

Hi,

Glup! I've already this problem 🙁
I have Linux 6.1 and I've compiled PHP.4.0.4pl1
I've changed also the position of callout module in httpd.conf
when I try apachectl configtest I get:

Syntax error on line XXX
Cannot load apache-1.3.14/libexec/libphp4.so into server apache-1.3.14/libexec/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: __dn_expand

does anybody know another possibility to fix it 🙁

THX in advanced

Anon

Hi,

Glup! I've already this problem 🙁
I have Linux 6.1 and I've compiled PHP.4.0.4pl1
I've changed also the position of callout module in httpd.conf
when I try apachectl configtest I get:

Syntax error on line XXX
Cannot load apache-1.3.14/libexec/libphp4.so into server
apache-1.3.14/libexec/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: __dn_expand

does anybody know another possibility to fix it 🙁

THX in advance