Thanks to all, I built php from source and dropped the config lines in httpd.conf (from Steve's email) and it all works. I wonder why the APT packages didn't work for me.
regards, Rohit. On 5/20/07, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2007 16:08:39 +1200 Rohit Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A list of problems I'm facing: > > 1. I discovered 'apt-get --reinstall' from the APT howto and tried > reinstalling apache2. However, starting httpd with apache2ctl gave me > the following > > (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 > no listening sockets available, shutting down > Unable to open logs > > 'netstat -lt' doesn't show anybody listening on port 80 lsof and ps may help you here... > > What's going on here? > > 2. in the mean time, my source-compiled installation of apache2 works fine. Why? It's probably running while you're trying to start the precompiled one??? > > 3. What is the command which can show a listing of the files installed > by a package? I've hunted for this, but failed. dpkg --list > > 4. I have libapache2_mod_php5 installed (using APT). PHP pages still > get returned (from the source-compiled apache2) as cleartext without > getting interpreted. The httpd.conf file for the source-compiled > apache2 doesn't contain any directive which seems relevant to php. > What am I missing? look in your httpd.conf / mods-enabled/php5.* for the lines... LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps > > thanks, > Rohit. > > > > On 5/20/07, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > libapache2-mod-php5 > > > > Do an apt-cache search libapache2 for a list of all the precompiled modules for apache. Alternatively, you can build from scratch - not that I recommend it. > > > > Steve > > > > > > On Sun, 20 May 2007 15:03:51 +1200 > > Rohit Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I have recently installed Ubuntu 7.04 (desktop) on a machine and am > > > trying to set it up as a webserver. I need to enable PHP support for > > > apache (currently my apache simply returns the code for html-php > > > without interpreting them). I am new to APT and can't figure out which > > > packages I need to install. I wanted to start with apache2 so I did: > > > > > > % apt-get install apache2 > > > > > > The execution of the above command completed without an error, but the > > > system didn't have the apache2 server running automagically. > > > Executing: > > > > > > % /usr/sbin/apache2ctl start > > > > > > failed and complained about a missing /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file. > > > Why didn't the apache2 installation come with a default? Resuing an > > > older apache1.3 config file didn't do the trick. There was a syntax > > > error reported by apache2 with it. > > > > > > I gave up and installed apache2 from source and that seemed to work > > > fine. I have a HTTP server going now. > > > > > > Then came time to enable support for PHP. Now which package should I > > > install for php? There seem to be plenty to choose from. Will > > > installing PHP using APT have trouble dealing with the installation of > > > apache2 which was done from source? > > > > > > I'm tired today, being down with flu, so my usual troubleshooting > > > energies are low. Can someone hand-hold me through this process? > > > > > > thanks in advance, > > > Rohit. > >
