Installing PHP 5 under /home: how to?

I have a user account on a RH Linux machine but no root access.

I succesfully installed apache 1.3 under my /home/ account but can't
get PHP to install properly.

I have done the following steps:

#1 compiled and installed apache using --prefix=/home/imbeauje/apache.
Tested that it works.

#2 compiled and installed php using

../configure --with-apache=/home/imbeauje/apache_1.3.31
--prefix=/home/imbeauje/php

#3 added to http.conf LoadModule php5_module libexec/libphp5.so


At this point trying to run apache gives the following error:

Cannot load /home/imbeauje/apache/libexec/libphp5.so into server:
/home/imbeauje/apache/libexec/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory


I commented out the LoadModule line and the error disappeared.

#4 added AddType application/x-httpd-php .php to http.conf

At this point I can start apache but trying to load up a .php file
makes my browser through up a 'save file as' dialog ...

What did I miss?

Thanks!

Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> I have a user account on a RH Linux machine but no root access.
>
> I succesfully installed apache 1.3 under my /home/ account but can't
> get PHP to install properly.
>
> I have done the following steps:
>
> #1 compiled and installed apache using --prefix=/home/imbeauje/apache.
> Tested that it works.
>
> #2 compiled and installed php using
>
> ./configure --with-apache=/home/imbeauje/apache_1.3.31
> --prefix=/home/imbeauje/php
>
> #3 added to http.conf LoadModule php5_module libexec/libphp5.so
>
>
> At this point trying to run apache gives the following error:
>
> Cannot load /home/imbeauje/apache/libexec/libphp5.so into server:
> /home/imbeauje/apache/libexec/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
>
>
> I commented out the LoadModule line and the error disappeared.
>
> #4 added AddType application/x-httpd-php .php to http.conf
>
> At this point I can start apache but trying to load up a .php file
> makes my browser through up a 'save file as' dialog ...
>
> What did I miss?
>
> Thanks!

I assume (right?) make and make install went without shocking errors ?
Does apache have proper rights (rx) to /home/imbeauje/apache/exec/ AND
libphp5.so ?
Is the .so file actually in that directory ? (I know, sounds silly, but how
often people simply forgot to check..)
Where does your apache serverroot point to ? Tried supplying the full path
to libphp5.so too?

If you did not load the php module I am not surprised you get a save-as.
After all, what else could apache do with it ? Or am I the silly one now ?
It's been a hot day, brain is cooked.

Well sofar what I can come up with without digging deeper. Good luck!
HTH
Pjotr.

"Pjotr Wedersteers" <x33159@westerterp.com> wrote in message news:<411541f8$0$6968$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...
> I assume (right?) make and make install went without shocking errors ?

Correct.

Installing PHP SAPI module: apache
Installing PHP CLI binary: /home/imbeauje/php/bin/
Installing PHP CLI man page: /home/imbeauje/php/man/man1/
Installing PEAR environment: /home/imbeauje/php/lib/php/
[PEAR] Archive_Tar - already installed: 1.1
[PEAR] Console_Getopt - already installed: 1.2
[PEAR] PEAR - already installed: 1.3.2
Wrote PEAR system config file at: /home/imbeauje/php/etc/pear.conf
You may want to add: /home/imbeauje/php/lib/php to your php.ini
include_path
[PEAR] XML_RPC - already installed: 1.1.0
Installing build environment: /home/imbeauje/php/lib/php/build/
Installing header files: /home/imbeauje/php/include/php/
Installing helper programs: /home/imbeauje/php/bin/
program: phpize
program: php-config
program: phpextdist
[imbeauje@tkrndapd2 ~/php-5.0.0]$ ls ../apache/libexec/
httpd.exp

> Does apache have proper rights (rx) to /home/imbeauje/apache/exec/ AND
> libphp5.so ?

There is no apache/exec dir but there is an apache/libexec, is that
what you meant?

> Is the .so file actually in that directory ? (I know, sounds silly, but how
> often people simply forgot to check..)

I can't find a libphp5.so file anywhere, even in apache/libexec.

> Where does your apache serverroot point to ?

ServerRoot "/home/imbeauje/apache"

> Tried supplying the full path to libphp5.so too?

How?

> Well sofar what I can come up with without digging deeper. Good luck!

Looks like I am missing a step in the installation? No libphp5.so is
definitely not a good thing ...

Jc

Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> "Pjotr Wedersteers" <x33159@westerterp.com> wrote in message
> news:<411541f8$0$6968$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...
>> I assume (right?) make and make install went without shocking errors
>> ?
>
> Correct.
>
> Installing PHP SAPI module: apache
> Installing PHP CLI binary: /home/imbeauje/php/bin/
> Installing PHP CLI man page: /home/imbeauje/php/man/man1/
> Installing PEAR environment: /home/imbeauje/php/lib/php/
> [PEAR] Archive_Tar - already installed: 1.1
> [PEAR] Console_Getopt - already installed: 1.2
> [PEAR] PEAR - already installed: 1.3.2
> Wrote PEAR system config file at: /home/imbeauje/php/etc/pear.conf
> You may want to add: /home/imbeauje/php/lib/php to your php.ini
> include_path
> [PEAR] XML_RPC - already installed: 1.1.0
> Installing build environment: /home/imbeauje/php/lib/php/build/
> Installing header files: /home/imbeauje/php/include/php/
> Installing helper programs: /home/imbeauje/php/bin/
> program: phpize
> program: php-config
> program: phpextdist
> [imbeauje@tkrndapd2 ~/php-5.0.0]$ ls ../apache/libexec/
> httpd.exp
>
>> Does apache have proper rights (rx) to /home/imbeauje/apache/exec/
>> AND libphp5.so ?
>
> There is no apache/exec dir but there is an apache/libexec, is that
> what you meant?
>
>> Is the .so file actually in that directory ? (I know, sounds silly,
>> but how often people simply forgot to check..)
>
> I can't find a libphp5.so file anywhere, even in apache/libexec.
>
>> Where does your apache serverroot point to ?
>
> ServerRoot "/home/imbeauje/apache"
>
>> Tried supplying the full path to libphp5.so too?
>
> How?
>
>> Well sofar what I can come up with without digging deeper. Good luck!
>
> Looks like I am missing a step in the installation? No libphp5.so is
> definitely not a good thing ...
>
> Jc

Try: locate libphp
Probably the required .so (shared object) file pops up, I would guess in one
of the PHP directories.
copy that file to the aforementioned libexec directory.

I also found this on a similar problem someone had compiling/installing PHP4
on linux : http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=9036
A quote from that page : "Yes, of course using --with-apxs makes a
difference. Without that
option you will never get a libphp4.so, you simply get a php binary.
Please read the installation instructions"

Maybe here's your solution too ??
good Luck jean!
Pjotr