Apache (PHP) fails to start

musv · Advocate Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 2414 Location: de

Hi there,

after the last system update my apache refuses to start. There are no vhosts, nothing professional. It's a simple home net configuration, which means, it's the default configuration.

theotherjoe · Apprentice Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 274

geki · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:26 am Post subject:

you may follow the migration, changes listed in this bugreport: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410607

i.e.: undefined symbol: unixd_config

-> needs in httpd.conf: LoadModule unixd_module modules/mod_unixd.so
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binro · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 3:34 pm Post subject:

I have just hit this problem despite reading this thread first and following the advice! I still get:

Art Vandalay · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:52 pm Post subject:

binro · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:48 am Post subject:

No solution as yet, I am still using apache-2.2.23. The failing version is 2.4.3; php is 5.3.15.
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websterr · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 1

I found that the /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so was soft linked to the a non existent file.
ls -l /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Mar 15 2011 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so -> /usr/lib/php5.3/apache2/libphp5.so
It seems that upon upgrading to php5.4 this link was not changed once I linked to the right file I was able to start apache2.

ls -l /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Dec 20 15:28 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so -> /usr/lib/php5.4/usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so

binro · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:59 am Post subject:

I seem to have both php-5.3 and php-5.4 installed. I will try changing the link and see what happens. Thanks for the tip!
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binro · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 4:07 pm Post subject:

You can use "eselect php list" to choose which php to use, I found out. However, neither works for me, I still get the error. Apache-2.3 is hard-masked now on my system.
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jasonaward · n00b Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 5

I had this problem with Apache 2.4.3 and PHP 5.4.9. The solution was to re-build PHP.

Did you actually re-build PHP or just rely on revrep-rebuild to check consistency?

binro · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:37 am Post subject: