mod_php: not starting?

idiotprogrammer · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 179 Location: Texas

I'm installing apache, mod_php, mod_perl, and mod_dav

things emerge ok and i can get apache to work, but i can't tell if mod_php is working

i wrote a phpinfo script, which only showed text
the apache logs shows that the server information is just apache with no php inolved.

I ran the ebuild scripts and changed APACHE_OPTS="-D SSL -D PHP4" in the startup file.

The problem is that the config files usually have configuration about php in If containers, so it's hard to tell if apache is even php aware. is there a setting I need to make on php config file?

I looked at the apache config files, and nothing looks strange on the mod_php lines. (and anyway, isn't gentoo supposed to make these sort of difficulties old-fashioned?

Anything I've missing?

Robert Nagl e

sergio · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:49 am Post subject:

Check your /etc/apache/conf/apache and then is necessary add the lines follow

idiotprogrammer · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 179 Location: Texas

actually I was surprised to find that these lines weren't in commonapache.conf

I put the lines you mentioned in both conf/apache.conf and commonapache.conf

Still does not work. I'm looking at the server signature when I do http. I see neither mod_ssl or mod_php.

Other ideas?

rj

sergio · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:07 pm Post subject:

- Check if apache is started (ps -ef)
- Check the error_log file in /var/log/apache

- Check the syntax of apache's configurations files with

sergio · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 4:33 pm Post subject:

Check the "apache" file in /etc/conf.d

uncomment the line follow

axxackall · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject:

Same problem here. I think we need Gentoo-PHP-HOWTO about, b/c with current php ebuilds it doesn't work. There is some magic trick that PHP people know, but still did not tell us.

One more time:

jgaynor · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 8:17 pm Post subject: Im stuck with mod_php also :(

I seem to be have the same problem as you, idiotprogrammer. After some wrestling I was able to succesfully install php using the java USE option. Mod_php was the same way. My apache.conf and apache file look kosher but no go with apache serving any php files. Im testing using phpsysinfo, and apache just attempts to send the index file as a download. Glad this isn;t just me - I was beginning to think I had gotten in over my head with gentoo

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waverider202 · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 9:27 pm Post subject: php

I noticed this problem back when 4.3 was released. I couldn't figure out for the life of me what was causing it not to work, so I solved the problem in the most elagent way I could:

emerge php-4.2.3.ebuild
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idiotprogrammer · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 179 Location: Texas

in response to jgaynor:

interestingly, I used use="-java" because of another emerge bug related to java. Perhaps these two bugs are related.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36518&highlight=modphp

It's worth trying everything again from scratch to make sure I didn't forget anything.

Problems.

axxackall · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 11:06 pm Post subject:

Sometime I wonder, why packages with so obvious bugs are unmasked, while many packages, good and stable, are still masked.

tdrobinson · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 4 Location: Kentucky

I have the fix. I tell you this really frustrated me.

It is the order that the modules are loaded in the /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf file. Make sure that the following vhost line is after the php module line.

LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so

Like so:

<IfDefine PHP4>
LoadModule php4_module extramodules/libphp4.so
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine SSL>
LoadModule ssl_module extramodules/libssl.so
</IfDefine>
LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so

idiotprogrammer · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 179 Location: Texas

You know, last time, I came home exhausted and instead of trying to investigate this problem further, I ended up watching tv and falling asleep.

This solution sounds very hopeful. I'll try it tonight. Thanks!

rj

b0d0r · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 30

also if you comment out or remove the <ifdefine> and </ifdefine> for each module that you want to use... you will find that will get it to work...

well i did it and it works for me

barnaclebarnes · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 11 Location: London

Mord · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject:

Gah! Thanks for this thread.

I just updated apache and php, and I manually clobbered my own /etc/conf.d/apache file. PHP wasn't starting.....

Just had to remove the comment by the line

APACHE_OPTS="-D SSL -D PHP4"

and all was well.
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I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here.

ultraslacker · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 6:37 pm Post subject:

jgaynor · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:01 pm Post subject: Eureeka!

WOOHOO! FINALLY!

Man this problem took a LONG time to fix - truthfully its STILL not fixed but I've got it jury-rigged enough to work. I decided to restart from square one. Uninstalled apache, php & mod_php . . .

sebgarden · Guru Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 353

OK, here I have an interesting thing:

sebgarden · Guru Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 353

And I forgot to mention that commenting this line doesn't enable my browser to read phpinfo.php !

Sébastien

marsf · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 10

Ok, I'm willing to try a little experiment if anyone else is up for it. I've been working on this for a while and for all intents and purposes it looks like PHP is running, but it just won't execute any script!

So, here is my proposition. I've posted a tarball of my /etc/apache directory on my web site at http://www.redplanet.ca/temp/apache.tar. All someone has to do is untar it to /tmp and run the command:

diff /etc/apache /tmp/apache -r {some other options, wbB maybe}

I am running apache-1.3.27-r3 with mod_php-4.3.1

This setup should be out-of-the-box. As far as I can tell the config files are fine and all the needed settings are in there. I have tried running the server with the "/etc/inid.d/apache" script, as well as with "/sbin/apache -D PHP4" and both commands would appear to be working from the log files as well as the http://localhost/server-status page. These show the PHP 4.3.1 module being loaded up and configured. However, the server will only spit PHP code back at me, no matter what I try.

So I would really like to know what is different between my setup and everyone else's? What are the differences between a working setup and my own? Comparing the config tree should at the least indicate whether or not the problem is in the configuration or elsewhere.

It is also worth noting that I had to use the USE="-qt -java" flags to get mod_php to compile in the first place.

So, who has a working configuration using these two packages, and what are the differences between that configuration and mine?

Mars

sebgarden · Guru Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 353

Well, I'm running apache-2.0.44, mysql-3.23.55 (downgrading last night), php-4.3.1 with mod_php-4.3.1-r1 and it's just running fine (Now

).

Sébastien

sweede · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 45

as it is said above, check the /etc/init.d/apache script to see if it is loading the APACHE_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache

rename the stop() function to something like, _stop()

and then add the following,

stop() {
ebegin ${APACHE_OPTS}
}

running /etc/init.d/apache stop (you must start it first) should return

karl11 · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 469 Location: Raleigh, NC

marsf · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 10

Well, PHP finally works, but I don't know how.

I unmerged mod_php, and then as an expriment built and installed normal PHP 4.3.1. The normal PHP didn't work either.

Just now I reinstalled mod_php so that I could try the above solution. But I didn't get that far, because everything works perfectly now?

Maybe it has something to do with having normal non-gentoo PHP and gentoo mod_php installed at the same time.

Strange.

Mars

olivierweb · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 12:27 pm Post subject:

I've got some problem for running mod_php. So I do the changes for the /etc files