[gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

[gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

I want a box on my LAN to be a local web and database server. I've installed 
Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpmyadmin and I'm about to get phpmyadmin going. The 
problem is that Apache is displaying the contents of php files instead of 
interpreting them.

What have I missed? I have USE="apache2 php" in make.conf and APACHE2_OPTS="-D 
PHP" in /etc/conf.d/apache2.

(Why is it so hard to get a web server going in Gentoo? I remember having the 
same difficulty 18 months ago; it'd be good to be able to remember what I did. 
This is the one area I've found where the Gentoo documentation is weak - well, 
nonexistent actually. We ought to have an idiot's guide to getting started, at 
least.)

-- 
Rgds
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

[Stéphane Guedon]

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On Friday 01 April 2011 13:57:49 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I want a box on my LAN to be a local web and database server. I've
> installed Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpmyadmin and I'm about to get
> phpmyadmin going. The problem is that Apache is displaying the contents of
> php files instead of interpreting them.
> 
> What have I missed? I have USE="apache2 php" in make.conf and
> APACHE2_OPTS="-D PHP" in /etc/conf.d/apache2.
> 
> (Why is it so hard to get a web server going in Gentoo? I remember having
> the same difficulty 18 months ago; it'd be good to be able to remember
> what I did. This is the one area I've found where the Gentoo documentation
> is weak - well, nonexistent actually. We ought to have an idiot's guide to
> getting started, at least.)

I have APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D PHP5"

you should try at least language and php5 !

Don't know actually if it will help !

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Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday 01 April 2011 13:18:39 Stéphane Guedon wrote:

> I have APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D PHP5"
> 
> you should try at least language and php5 !

That missing 5 is important - thanks.

Then, however, I got this:

 * apache2 has detected an error in your setup:
apache2: Syntax error on line 149 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on 
line 4 of /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php5.conf: Cannot load 
/usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so into server: 
/usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file 
or directory

That's after emerge -Cv apache and removing by hand all files and directories 
left behind by emerge. Same with php. Then I reinstalled both apache and php but 
without using the packages I had and all came right - thanks Stéphane.

This is connected with the other thread I've written to today, about using my 
workstation as an emerge server. A complication I didn't mention there is that 
both make.conf and package.use have to be identical in the chroot and the target 
system nfs-mounted under it. I must have got them out of step at some stage.

Incidentally, apache is wrong to complain of syntax errors - they're errors of 
configuration, not syntax.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

[kashani]

On 4/1/2011 12:56 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2011 13:18:39 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
>
>> I have APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D PHP5"
>>
>> you should try at least language and php5 !
>
> That missing 5 is important - thanks.
>
> Then, however, I got this:
>
>   * apache2 has detected an error in your setup:
> apache2: Syntax error on line 149 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on
> line 4 of /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php5.conf: Cannot load
> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so into server:
> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
>
> That's after emerge -Cv apache and removing by hand all files and directories
> left behind by emerge. Same with php. Then I reinstalled both apache and php but
> without using the packages I had and all came right - thanks Stéphane.
>
> This is connected with the other thread I've written to today, about using my
> workstation as an emerge server. A complication I didn't mention there is that
> both make.conf and package.use have to be identical in the chroot and the target
> system nfs-mounted under it. I must have got them out of step at some stage.
>
> Incidentally, apache is wrong to complain of syntax errors - they're errors of
> configuration, not syntax.
>

Apache doesn't recognize the syntax, therefore it's a syntax error.

dig you build php with an apache2 flag to enable the Apache module?

kashani

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

[Adam Carter]

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> dig you build php with an apache2 flag to enable the Apache module?
>

And you'll also need this in your httpd.conf;

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

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Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:03:10 -0700, kashani wrote:

> >   * apache2 has detected an error in your setup:
> > apache2: Syntax error on line 149 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax
> > error on line 4 of /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php5.conf: Cannot
> > load /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so into server:
> > /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object file:
> > No such file or directory

> > Incidentally, apache is wrong to complain of syntax errors - they're
> > errors of configuration, not syntax.
 
> Apache doesn't recognize the syntax, therefore it's a syntax error.

It does recognise the syntax, otherwise it wouldn't be trying to load
the module. I agree, it's a misleading error message.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results." (Albert Einstein)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

[Todd Goodman]

* Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com> [110402 01:15]:
> > dig you build php with an apache2 flag to enable the Apache module?
> >
> 
> And you'll also need this in your httpd.conf;
> 
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

70_mod_php5.conf in /etc/apache2/modules.d adds the handler for that
automatically when PHP5 is defined (and mod_mime.c is there.)

So doublecheck that php was built with the apache2 USE flag as mentioned
above.  I've rebuilt php after apache2 before to be sure the needed
modules are installed.

Also as mentioned make sure your APACHE2_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache2
uses -D PHP5 and not just PHP or PHP4.

And finally don't forget to restart apache after emerging php

Todd

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Friday 01 April 2011 21:56:47 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2011 13:18:39 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
> > I have APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D PHP5"
> > 
> > you should try at least language and php5 !
> 
> That missing 5 is important - thanks.
> 
> Then, however, I got this:
> 
>  * apache2 has detected an error in your setup:
> apache2: Syntax error on line 149 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error
> on line 4 of /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php5.conf: Cannot load
> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so into server:
> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object file: No
> such file or directory
> 
> That's after emerge -Cv apache and removing by hand all files and
> directories left behind by emerge. Same with php. Then I reinstalled both
> apache and php but without using the packages I had and all came right -
> thanks Stéphane.
> 
> This is connected with the other thread I've written to today, about using
> my workstation as an emerge server. A complication I didn't mention there
> is that both make.conf and package.use have to be identical in the chroot
> and the target system nfs-mounted under it. I must have got them out of
> step at some stage.
> 
> Incidentally, apache is wrong to complain of syntax errors - they're errors
> of configuration, not syntax.

Try recompiling php.
You may have accidentally removed the php-library as that is located under:
/usr/lib/apache2/modules/...

--
Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 04 April 2011 10:17:34 Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2011 21:56:47 Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > This is connected with the other thread I've written to today, about
> > using my workstation as an emerge server. A complication I didn't
> > mention there is that both make.conf and package.use have to be
> > identical in the chroot and the target system nfs-mounted under it. I
> > must have got them out of step at some stage.
> 
> Try recompiling php.
> You may have accidentally removed the php-library as that is located under:
> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/...

It may not be clear from what preceded this, but the problem was actually caused 
by the particular way I'd used chroot, nfs mounting and --root parameter to 
portage running in the chroot on my "emerge server".

As soon as I change my process the problem went away, together with several 
others I haven't bothered the list with.

Thanks anyway.

-- 
Rgds
Peter