Apache2 + PHP5 + Mysql-5
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I am new to Mepis but I am an old Linux user, I began ages ago with RH 4.0 (on 1996? don't remember anymore). I like Mepis very much, I installed SimplyMEPIS 6.0 on one of my computers and the installation worked flawlessly with a simple CDROM unlike Kubuntu, Gentoo etc....
However I was unable to install Apache2 with PHP5+php5-mysqli; myslq-5 installation instead was OK. Actually apparently Apache2 installs correctly but then the server daemon does not run, without error messages or any useful log files anywhere. Since I have done this stuff many times in other distribution I believe that there is some broken executable, or broken dependency, down there.
I noticed that if you "#apt-get install apache2" SimplyMEPIS gets packages from ubuntu, may be there is some compatibility problem. I believe that may be it is a good idea to go back to Debian.
Any idea ?
Best regards
Daniel Liscia
Apache2 + PHP5 + Mysql-5
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'/etc/init.d/apache2 start' does absolutely nothing, that is, it seems that that everything is fine, no error messages whatsoever, but then if you check whether the apache/httpd daemon is there with 'ps -ax' you don't find it, and if you test with a browser the http://localhost URL nothing happens. I removed and reinstalled apache2 and php5 with apt-get several times without success. Maybe I should try a more recent version of SymplyMepis.
Best regards
Daniel Liscia
Check if it installed the
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Check if it installed the package apache2-mpm-prefork.
If you do this as root: /sbin/apache2. What do you get then?
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HOW Did You Install These Packages?
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Daniel, how exactly did you install these packages? Did you use synaptic, kpackage, or apt-get to put them on your box, or did you grab a tar file or some other source from some place and try to do "make", etc. on it?
Because Mepis has a pretty good repository list, and loading each of those items should be only a couple clicks (or choices) away in synaptic or apt. That way, all of the init scripts, config files and other fluff are put in the right places.
And just to be thorough, the rest of the box works fine right?
Jon
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Apache2 + PHP5 + Mysql-5
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Jon,
first I usually check what package is installed this way (for apache as an example):
# dpkg -l apache*
Then I install with:
# apt-get install apache2
This way, I suppose, I am fishing packages from the default repository list.
If something went wrong, as often I experienced, I remove packages with --purge this way:
# apt-get --purge remove apache*
Is that OK?
Regards
Daniel Liscia
Have you tried starting via
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Have you tried starting via sbin/apache2 as I suggested earlier? Is the prefork package installed?
On a sidenote: Are you sure you wish to publish your email address? It surely already has been harvested by robots and you will get spammed beyond belief....
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About Apache2
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First of all thanks for your suggestion about spam mail, I want stick my address anymore. However mine is a very old email address and never had serious problems with it.
About "sbin/apache2" now I don't remeber if I did, I don't have that PC at hand right now. I'll let you know this week-end, but I think I might better download the last release of SimplyMepis, burn it and try to install that one instead.
Best regards
Daniel
/usr/sbin/apache2
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/usr/sbin/apache2
gives me the following:
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
Looks like you already have
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Looks like you already have a webserver running. What if you try to connect to http://localhost?
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Apache2 php5 problems
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I finally got apache2 and php5 working in SimplyMepis 6.5_02_32. I tested it with
in index.php of the DocumentRoot directory.
In my configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf I added this line:
LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
together with the following:
AddHandler php5-script php
AddType application/x-tar .tgz
# And the following:
AddType text/html php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
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Now, normally apache2 should be able to find the libphp5.so module if a simpler path such as
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
as indicated in the canonical manual of apache2 and php5
but "libphp5.so" in Mepis is in the /usr/lib/apache2/modules/ directory
So you have to tell the OS all the correct path to the library. This is not right, The other Linux distributions and FreeBSD don't do that.
Daniel
MEPIS 6 and 6.5 are based on
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MEPIS 6 and 6.5 are based on Ubuntu. So the fact that the packages come from Ubuntu makes sense.
However, what does not make sense is the fact that it does not work. I have done various installs of Apache/PHP/Mysql in MEPIS, and they all work flawlessly. What happens when you open a console, su to root and do '/etc/init.d/apache2 start'?
EDIT
MEPIS 7 will be based on Debian by the way, so your wish (and that of many others) will be fulfilled....
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