[SWLUG] Apache PHP modules

[Kris Zani]

the symlink plan as described by jonathon sounds like the best plan.
It was exactly what i was going to suggest so it must be right ;-)



Peter Bradley wrote:
> Can anyone help with this?
>
> I'm running SuSE 10.0 on AMD Athlon 64 x 2 with Apache 2.0.x and PHP 
> 5.0.4 with MySql 4.1.x
>
> Both Apache and PHP5 run fine in the sense that I can connect to 
> localhost and get the Apache default page, and I can put a basic php 
> page in the document root and Apache knows how to deal with it (e.g. I 
> can run the standard <?php phpinfo(); ?> page).
>
> They were installed via YaST and updated via YOU.  I haven't used 
> anything else.
>
> I noticed I had a problem when I tried to write a script that connected 
> to MySql.  PHP reported an error saying it could not find the myql_*() 
> functions.  On investigation, I found that the apache2 error_log was 
> full of warnings of the form:
>
> "PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 
> '/usr/lib64/php/extensions/xxxx' - /usr/lib64/php/extensions/xxxx: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on 
> line 0"
>
> ... where 'xxxx' represents the module in question, for example, the 
> warning for mysql read:
>
> "PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 
> '/usr/lib64/php/extensions/mysql' - /usr/lib64/php/extensions/mysql: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on 
> line 0"
>
> In short, not one PHP extension is loading because the required file is 
> not found.
>
> On investigation, I find that /usr/lib64/php/extensions contains shared 
> object files (*.so).  The files being reported as not found in the 
> apache2 error_log appear to be executables that are located in 
> /usr/lib64/php5/extensions.
>
> Does anyone know if I've diagnosed the problem correctly, and - more 
> importantly, I guess - how I can solve it?
>
> Many thanks
>
>
> Peter
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