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

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

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