On 3/10/2011 7:18 PM, Dave Dyer wrote: > > Versions: Windows 7, Apache 2.2.17, PHP 5.3.5 > > If I start httpd as a console app, everything works correctly. > If I start as a > service, the php module fails to load. Messages and actual behavior > suggest > that the path is being treated strangely. > > Here are the relevant lines from httpd.conf > > PHPINIDir "c:/program files (x86)/php/" > LoadModule php5_module "c:/program files > (x86)/php/php5apache2_2.dll" > > the error message when started as a service is: > > httpd.exe: Syntax error on line 690 of C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache > Software > Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load C:/Program Files > (x86)/Apache > Software Foundation/Apache2.2/php5apache2_2.dll into server: The > specified > module could not be found. > > Note that the path in the message is to the apache root, not the path in > the > config file. And, if I put a copy of php5apache2_2.dll in the place > designated > by the error message, it changes and the error becomes a complaint about > the > syntax of the PHPINIDir line.
PHPIniDir may be ignored if you attempt to specify it before the LoadModule, that's the way that subordinate directives behave in relation to their respective modules. If you have UAC enabled, as Eric suggests, perhaps you aren't modifying the files you expected that you had? > Syntax error on line 689 of C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software > Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/httpd.conf: > > Note that the line number doesn't correspond to the location of the > directive > in the conf file, and that the directive seems to be in the format the > message > is complaining about. > > Primary Question: Ok, how do I get mod_php to load. Questions; did you modify the system-wide PATH (as opposed to a user PATH), or the PATH of the specific account you had set the Apache service to 'run-as'? are you modifying the real C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/httpd.conf file? If you have user account control on, system resource changes are ignored unless you do them from a console launched 'run as administrator'. > Secondary Question: > > (1) How can it NOT be a bug that apache will actually load a module > from it's root directory instead of an explicitly named external directory. It's a change to windows in it's processing of dependency directories, if you review the history they claim it's a feature :) There is a trick in httpd to help, it's LoadFile, which can load any arbitrary .dll or .so from an absolute path, which a later LoadModule depends on. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
