Hello people, Problem ! (aren't they all ?)
I'm trying to get PHP working with Apache 2 on OpenBSD. Apache 2 is not supported in the OpenBSD ports so I figured I'd just build it from the standard source distribution. I've done this on Linux and it's never caused me a problem. I have used exactly the same configuration on the OpenBSD build that I have used on Linux. I build Apache with... > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-ssl --with-ssl=/usr/src/openssl/openssl-0.9.7 -enable-mods-shared="libphp4" -enable-modules="access dir mime mime_magic log_config alias negotiation setenvif" > make > make install ...and I build PHP with... > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --enable-track-vars --enable-magic-quotes --enable-debugger --with-mysql=/usr/lib --enable-inline-optimization --without-pear > make > make install There's no hint of a problem with either build and sure enough, Apache runs fine on its own and serves pages with no problems. But if I try and load the libphp4.so module with... LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so ...I get nothing ! I try and start apache and it just returns. No tasks, no error log, no core dump, nothing. Absolutely no indication why it fails. And before you ask, yes, all the file permissions are fine - I get error logs when I don't load libphp4.so and I've made sure the core dump directory is writable etc etc. I can load other modules with no problems; I re-jigged the apache config to build 'access' as a module and load this with... LoadModule access_module modules/mod_access.so ...and it works fine. If I try and syntax check the config file with the PHP 'LoadModule' line in (with /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -t), it doesn't even return a 'Syntax Ok' message. If I comment out the PHP 'LoadModule' line, I do. If I start apache with the PHP Loadmodule line commented out and then comment the line back in and try and stop apache, it ignores me and carries on running ! It looks like just having the LoadModule php4... line in the config file is killing the apache startup/shutdown stone dead. But I know this doesn't make sense, so it MUST be something to do with the PHP module itself... mustn't it ? The apache config file I'm using is one I've used for ages on Linux and I'm sure it's absolutely fine. If I strip it down to the bare minimum, PHP will still fail to load. Here's such a config file that I've tried... # Apache 2 config ErrorLog logs/error_log LogLevel debug ServerRoot "/usr/local/apache2" User httpd Group httpd PidFile logs/httpd.pid # This next line works fine LoadModule access_module modules/mod_access.so # This next line is causing me grief ! LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so Listen 192.168.0.2:80 # End One thing I have noticed is that the libphp4.so built on OpenBSD is significantly smaller than on Linux (3M rather than 4.9M). I've tried to build the PHP module from the OpenBSD ports tree and it builds ok (though it's only just over 1M), but I get exactly the same result when trying to start Apache. I've looked at the OpenBSD resource limits and these shouldn't be causing a problem. If anyone has any idea what's going on (getting some error output would be a start) I'd be very grateful. Alternatively, if anyone has an alternative approach, or a known working solution, I'm willing to give it a go. regards, Rich.
