UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi as you can tell from the number under my name im pretty new here, but i do have a question. This apache server is agrivating me. First off i am running SuSe 8 upgraded from 7.3 and I downloaded installed apache 2.0.43, PHP 4.2.3 and MySQL 3.23.53a-1.i386 installed it all. I did make sure to change the ServerName to its proper designation. Now when i try to run apachectl start i get the following message;

Syntax error on line 9 of /etc/httpd/suse_loadmodule.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so into server: libsnmp-0.4.2.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

I checked out suse_loadmodule.conf to see if i infact infact it was trying to load somthing that i did not have. Everything was fine everything trying to be loaded was not only present but pointed in the right direction. I did how ever not find libsnmp-0.4.2.1.so it turns out the version i have is libsnmp-0.4.2.3.so. So i assume that is where my problem is. Now my question is a semi two parter. How do i make the apache loader look for libsnmp-0.4.2.3.so instead of libsnmp-0.4.2.1.so so that i can get the ball rolling here, if i am wrong and that is not the issue what is and how can i go about fixing it? All the instructions i have read only suggest perfect conditions and offer no trouble shooting advice.

That is all i wanted to know, i hope its as small of a problem as i think but if not oh well thats the price of doing business some days.


Cerberus

I not trying to make just a band-aid fix, but sometimes, it will have to do until you find a real fix (the first thing I would do it is uninstall all version of PHP, then reinstall the current version, but I digress).

You could try making a soft link from the current version to the version it's looking for...

I hope someone has a better answer...

thank you very much for your suggestion it is really appreciated! I ended up breaking somthing, so i reloaded suse 7.3 and the web server and php mod seems to be working great now! Good times but now mysql doesnt seem to be running right so im off to search the forum. thanks again.






Cerberus

As I recall the following PHP book has a chapter on setting up both Apache and MySQL:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...37409?v=glance

Or it might have been this MySQL book:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...37409?v=glance

I have both, BTW.

I am also using SuSE 7.3 and when I installed the MySQL rpm it didn't work too -- the owner and group of some files were not correct out of the box so mysqld didn't load. I got the solution from alt.os.linux.suse last year searching the newsgroup, hopefully it's not yet deleted.

To save me from further trouble (even though I have applied the fix) I removed the rpm and replaced it with a binary tarball distribution from MySQL. It works great, even with a 4.0.3 beta release.