Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

[ebtech]

I've been screwing around with some OS shopping cart packages on my Gutsy localhost. I couldn't get the apache2 mods for php5 working. Luckily I had a working Mint install on the same box I could copy the mods over from and configure them.

I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed this error. I used synaptic to install libapache2-mod-php5 and mysql 5.0. The install showed no errors but when I went to look at the installed mods in the /etc/php5/apache2 folder......they were nowhere to be found. Is there a problem with the packages in the repos or is this just one of those screwy things?

[Guest]

Re: Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

Im having exactly the same problem at the minute.

installed libapache2-mod-php5 and
/etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.load
/etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf

both seem to install fine but there is nothing there.

[ebtech]

Re: Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

Well once again Mint comes through. I've installed the e-commerce package on my Mint partition and it works like a charm. There seems to be a problem with the LAMP packages in Gutsy. Specifically I think it may be with PHP5 mods but I'm no expert. Only guessing from my experience.

[Joshi]

Re: Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

Same problem here!
I'm actually "Mint-less", so I tried to reinstall them by apt ( --reinstall option )

applications are present, but doesn't work.
apache2 is running, but just let you download php files as txt ( doesn't event display in browser).

in my case /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf|load aren't event present!
( I tried to write them manually )

[ebtech]

Re: Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

Joshi & Jeffmetal

Sorry to hear you're having the same problem but it further convinces me that the Gutsy packages are defective. I uninstalled/reinstalled the entire LAMP stack 5-6 times and had no success. Mint (Celina) still uses the Feisty packages. I don't know if one can install Feisty packages in Gutsy but they work properly.

[Guest]

Re: Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

I ended up uninstalling apache, php5 and mysql and reinstalling them all and it didn't work.

then i started again from scratch and used https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/server/C/web-servers.html and it magically works now.

[ebtech]

Re: Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

I must not be holding my mouth right.

[Joshi]

Re: Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

I ended up uninstalling apache, php5 and mysql and reinstalling them all and it didn't work.

then i started again from scratch and used https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/server/C/web-servers.html and it magically works now.

I Just noticed that rebooting the whole system just let the apache2+php5+mysql work!
the reinstall was needed, but seems like just restarting the single services is not enoght..

or maybe i forgot something that the rebooting process just does

[suplero]

Re: Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

Has this been solved yet?

I have been trying to get a php calendar installed, and it pops up with the "save as" dialog box whenever I try to open a php file extension.

My apache server works, but the php part doesn't. I think I have the modules installed [according to adept and /etc/apache2/mods-available] but they don't work.

It would be really nice if this could be fixed in the adept install/reinstall instead of manually having to do everything.

[SheeEttin]

Re: Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

It's probably opening, rather than executing, the file.
Make sure that Apache knows to execute it and that it's marked executable.

[suplero]

Re: Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

I did a bit more digging [what little I can] and ended up installing webmin from http://www.webmin.com/ and discovered that somehow the versions of php didn't match.

I thought I installed php5, but in the php config file through webmin, it was set to php4. I think one of the packages I installed [phpgroupware?] grabbed php4, but then I must have later upgraded to php5 through adept.

There were 3 directories pointing to a php4 location, and I changed all of the "4"s to "5"s in webmin, and everything came up working after a restart of apache2.

I used the debian package for webmin on the webpage, and it worked without any problems that I could tell.

[SheeEttin]

Re: Apache2/PHP5 mods not installing properly?

Mmm, Webmin. I use it too. It's a nice little tool, yeah?