Re: [cobalt-users] Apache Server is down and will not re-start

[Ilya Anfimov <ilan@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:16:55PM -0500, Franklin S. Werren wrote:
> Nope did not work...
> Refused to re-start
> 
> [root /]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
> Shutting down Web Service: httpd
> Setting up Web Service: Syntax error on line 58 of
> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
> Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so into server:
> /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: gdImageCreateFromGif
> /usr/sbin/httpd

 It  is  definitely problem between the php binary and libgd (the
library used for reading, drawing and writing images).

 On one hand it is possible that the libgd...?version?.so is  not
found  in  the libpath (/etc/ld.so.conf  $LD_LIBRARY_PATH) (well,
I'm not shure about the message issued in that case.  May  be  it
will  be  the  same,  but  most possibly it will be other message
clearly stating that the libgd.so is not  found).  Anyway  if  no
other reason is, you should check this one.

 But  most  posibly  it is due to the libgd interface changes be╜
tween versions.  The older libgd was used to work  with  GIF  im╜
ages.  But  some years ago the support was completely removed due
to GIF copyright trubles (including respective functions).

 The libgd, installed on the Raq4 by default,  is  one   of   the
old versions  that  have GIF routines. (libgd.so.1.2 in my case).
It is possible, that someone upgraded libgd on you machine.

 The most simple way of finding the installed version of libgd is
to type
   ldd /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so
 (to ensure, that libgd is found by libphp4) and
   ldd /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so |grep libgd.so |awk '{ print $3 }'|xargs ls -l
 (check the filename, that the libgd points to).

 To see, whether the library have gif support, type
   nm /usr/lib/libgd.so.1 |grep -i gif
 Where /usr/lib/libgd.so.1 is the found filename.

 In  the  case  it  is one of the recent versions, you have three
general opporunities:

 First one is to downgrade libgd to the default one. Though  this
will  make  system  a  bit  more  similar to the default one, you
should understand that someone possible upgraded  libgd,  and  he
had reasons to do it.
 Second  is  to install old libgd in one of the uncommon location
and point the apache to it (via LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment vari-
able).   This is reasonable soultion, but you should check subtle
differences,  that  could  occur  because  of   changing   LD_LI-
BRARY_PATH, especially for cgi scripts.
 Third one is to find the php4 binary, compiled with new gd or to
recompile it manually. The PHP check version of the  gd  library,
and  could  be  compiled  and used on both types.  The (possibly)
better way of recompiling is to download the php....src.rpm  from
the    site   you   found   php   binary   (may   be   with   the
apache....src.rpm), and rebuild it using rpm -bb.

> 
> So I rem it out again
> and restarted the services
> 
> BTW should not the idot lite in the control panel go out when
> the Server is back up ???
> 
> Franklin Werren
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <fswerren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Apache Server is down and will not re-start
> 
> 
> > > I rem out line 58 and it started but
> > > now php does not work
> > >
> > > here are the lines before I edited them
> > > # Extra Modules
> > > #LoadModule php_module modules/mod_php.so
> > > #LoadModule php3_module modules/libphp3.so
> > > LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so
> >
> > TRY LoadModule php4_module  /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so
> >
> > >
> > > Now how do I get PHP to work ???
> > >
> >
> >
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