Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

[kashani]

On 4/1/2011 12:56 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2011 13:18:39 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
>
>> I have APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D PHP5"
>>
>> you should try at least language and php5 !
>
> That missing 5 is important - thanks.
>
> Then, however, I got this:
>
>   * apache2 has detected an error in your setup:
> apache2: Syntax error on line 149 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on
> line 4 of /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php5.conf: Cannot load
> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so into server:
> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
>
> That's after emerge -Cv apache and removing by hand all files and directories
> left behind by emerge. Same with php. Then I reinstalled both apache and php but
> without using the packages I had and all came right - thanks Stéphane.
>
> This is connected with the other thread I've written to today, about using my
> workstation as an emerge server. A complication I didn't mention there is that
> both make.conf and package.use have to be identical in the chroot and the target
> system nfs-mounted under it. I must have got them out of step at some stage.
>
> Incidentally, apache is wrong to complain of syntax errors - they're errors of
> configuration, not syntax.
>

Apache doesn't recognize the syntax, therefore it's a syntax error.

dig you build php with an apache2 flag to enable the Apache module?

kashani