Can't Start Apache(with php4 error)

Anon

Hello,

I've compiled Apache 1.3.17 on Red Hat 6.2 with PHP 4.0.4pl1 and everything fine. The problems is whenever i start apachectl it will always give me this error message :

Syntax error on line 242 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/libphp4.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: gss_mech_krb5.

Can anyone help me with what to do(i've configure php with : - ./configure --with-mysql --with-xml --with-imap --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs).

Thank you.

Anon

I'm not an expert, but I was struggling with a similar problem last night.

You probably already know this, but just in case:

I had an old libphp4.so hanging around from the rpm version my Mandrake 7.2 had installed. It did not match the new configuration, and was causing a similar error, so I deleted it.

Make sure the libphp4.so created during your compilations is actually located in /etc/httpd/modules/ as described in the error message. If not, move a copy there (or a link), or change the path in "httpd.conf"

Make sure you ran "make" and "make install" after your "./configure" command.

Hope this helps

Anon

Thank you for your help. Now i can start apache with libphp4.so without error but face another problem.

Even thought i've set AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phps(for php4) but whenever i tried to access any webpage with .php extension(example-info.php), a menu to download the file will popup.

Seems to me that Apache can't parse php but i don't know what's wrong.

Can anyone help ?

Anon

Forgive me if I say something obvious. I've made all the mistakes I'm about to mention.

I'm not sure why it will not work. Your httpd.conf file should contain all of the following, not surrounded by any conditional structures (i.e., <IfModule.....):

LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so [your "modules/" path may differ from the above]

AddModule mod_php4.c

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml

Also, if there is some old "php3" language in the httpd.conf, comment it out.

And finally, an rpm version of php4 (which did not work) inserted a link to an add-on httpd.conf file that I had to comment out. Check to make sure you don't have any extra php4 related language lurking in your httpd.conf.

Hope this helps.

Anon

Yes, i've checked my httpd.conf and found out that libphp4.so line where in between <IfDefine> syntax,which is as below :

<IfDefine SSL>
LoadModule ssl_module modules/libssl.so
LoadModule perl_module modules/libperl.so
LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
</IfDefine>

Could this be the problem ? I've tried commenting the LoadModule for php between that line and put a new line for php4 module on top of <IfDefine SSL> line and then restart apachectl but the first problem crop up(the error message Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/libphp4.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: gss_mech_krb5).

Thank you for your help and effort .

Anon

I'm stuck. I'm not sure how to hlp. But don't give up. Eventually you can figure it out.

There should only be one "LoadModule" line anywhere in your httpd.conf. Do you maybe have two?

If yo get realy stuck, you migh try starting from scratch. Built Apache from source, then built php from scratch.

Anon

"You have been bitten by the IMAP Kerberos "bug". Stock RPMs of IMAP have
been compiled with Kerberos support, so you must add
--with-Kerberos=your_path to your PHP ./configure. OR, go get one of the
IMAP rpms without kerberos support. Check www.rpmfind.com. If you need the
virtual server support provided by the phall versions of IMAP, then you'll
have to compile it yourself, to get away from the kerberos problem. I
haven't found any precompiled binaries without it."