Re: Installing PHP4 - Please Help !!

I get the same exact problem, I was tearing my hair out over it all day yesterday. I'm looking back over the previous posts here and see people experiencing this even last year but I haven't seen any solutions posted... Martin Stephenson wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm running Suse Linux 7.1, Kernet 2.4 > > I have downloaded and installed the latest version of Apache and it's up > and running OK > > It is installed in : > > /usr/local/apache > > To Install PHP, i have downloaded the Source and put it in: > > /usr/local/src/php-4.0.6 > > To Install PHP I have done this ( ihave specified the location of apxs > as Suse Installed an Apache server also, but I want the one I've > installed to /usr/local/apache): > > ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs > > Then I type: > > make > > make install > > Then I edit /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf > > The required lines ARE there, ie. > > LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so > AddModule mod_php4.c > > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > > I have also copied /usr/local/src/php-4.0.6/php.ini-dist to > /usr/local/lib/php.ini > > Now the problem : > I then go to start my Server as follows: > > cd /usr/local/apache/bin > ./httpd > > BUT Then I get this: > > "Syntax error on line 236 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf: > API module structure `php4_module' in file > /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so is garbled - perhaps this is not an > Apache module DSO? " > > Line 236 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf is : > > LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so > > And If I check the file type of libphp4.so as follows: > cd /usr/local/apache/libexec/ > file libphp4.so > > I get : > "libphp4.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1, not > stripped " > > So....Can anybody Help ??? > > I don't have MySQL installed yet - do I need to have that first ??? > > Thanks, > > Martin Stephenson.