Hi I am very new to both apache and mac.
I had set up apache through Homebrew and as far as I understand so far,
apache from mac runs on OS level, but apache through Homebrew runs on user level. I think that is why mac apache stays in /etc level directory while Homebrew apache stays in /user/local/etc level.
However, I found out that both httpd.conf files differ from each other. Especially I am experiencing a problem that php doesn't render in a virtual host. I tried to fix the problem, but it seems like every solutions in the internet talks about httpd.conf for mac apache.
I am quite confused of what I am doing right now. It will be great if anyone of you guys can explain me how these apaches work different. Thanks!
Default apache path would be:
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
homebrew apache path
/usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
You can check how many apaches are running in your system:
which -a apachectl
Default apache:
/usr/sbin/apachectl
Homebrew:
/usr/local/bin/apachectl
The command below for default apache
sudo apachectl restart
You may use this for the homebrew apache
sudo /usr/local/bin/apachectl restart
Apache won't start on Mac with XAMPP. I tried updating PHP from 5.5.6 to PHP 5.6.8, and since that update XAMPP wouldn't start Apache. I tried completely re-installing XAMPP, but same issue.
Help would be appreciated, I'm more than happy to post any information that is necessary, not sure where to start. I've done a lot of looking around and haven't been able to find anything that points me in the right direction - I checked the Apache error_logs and there aren't any.
Try this -
Solution#1
This solution worked perfectly fine for me..
1) Close XAMPP control
2) Open Activity Monitor(Launchpad->Other->Activity Monitor)
3) Select filter for All processes (default is My processes)
4) In fulltext search type: httpd
5) Kill all httpd items
6) Relaunch XAMPP control and launch apache again
OR, Solution#2
sudo apachectl stop
This command kills Apache server that was pre-installed on MAC OS X.
OR, Solution#3
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist
This will disable OSX's built-in Apache server and allows XAMPP to start on 80.
Now once Apache starts successfully modify the .htaccess file
Apache needs to be configured to recognize index.php as an index file. While adding 'DirectoryIndex index.php' to a .htaccess file may work,
NOTE:
In general, you should never use .htaccess files
This is quoted from http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html
Although this refers to an older version of apache, I believe the principle still applies.
Adding the following to your httpd.conf (if you have access to it) is considered better form, causes less server overhead and has the exact same effect:
<Directory /myapp>
DirectoryIndex index.php
</Directory>
I've updated PHP to 8.0 in xampp by renaming old PHP folder to PHP_7.4
and new pasted new php8 folder as php folder, it gave me same error,
SOLUTION
Step1: backup old php folder,
Step2: Paste php8 files in to old PHP folder and overwrite existing files,
Done: Restart Apache it should start
I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.8.3 factory installed. I want to set up a working Apache/PHP environment on my local machine. Is this a matter of activating/changing settings in Terminal or do I need to install something?
There have been other guides out there but they don't explicitly answer how to begin if I have a factory installed OS and not an upgrade from an earlier version.
Thanks for any help.
If I'm not mistaken, all you have to do is edit the httpd.conf (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf) file to load the php module into apache (Look for 'LoadModule php5_module', it will probably be there, but with a # at the beginning of the line, simply remove it) and then start apache by entering this in terminal: apachectl start (you will maybe need to put 'sudo' before)
Of course this will only run apache and php. After that you can change your documentRoot and all the settings you want
I found a guide that'll walk someone through getting the factory installed Apache and PHP working on OS X 10.8. It goes over getting MySQL installed too:
http://coolestguyplanettech.com/downtown/install-and-configure-apache-mysql-php-and-phpmyadmin-osx-108-mountain-lion
I'm trying to install zend debugger in my Ubuntu 9.04 machine, I've done it in win. but not in linux, I hope you could help me, this is what I've done:
1)Copied the file ZendDebugger.so to /etc/php5/apache2 (didn't choose this folder for anything in special).
2)Added this lines to php.ini:
zend_extension="/etc/php5/apache2/ZendDebugger.so" zend_debugger.allow_hosts=127.0.0.1,127.0.1.1,localhost,*
zend_debugger.expose_remotely=always
I've also tried without quotes(zend_extension=/etc/php5/apache2/ZendDebugger.so)
3)Copied file dummy.php to /var/www
And then restarted Apache but I didn't see the information about Zend Debugger in the phpinfo(), the only related thing I found there was report_zend_debug On.
Thanks in advance
I found much more easy to install Xdebug in my Ubuntu machine.
sudo mv /etc/php5/apache2/ZendDebugger.so /usr/lib/php5/20060613/ZendDebugger.so
This is where your memcache.so, apc.so, etc. are located. Unless you modified your php extensions directory that is where new exts should go.
In php.ini:
zend_extension=/usr/lib/php5/20060613/ZendDebugger.so
cd to that directory and chmod a-x ZendDebugger.so to remove executable bits from the .so.
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
In another terminal window, tail -f /var/log/error.log and clear console so it is easy to see new log entries coming in (cmd-k on macos).
Then:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
If there are no errors in error.log, check phpinfo() and see if the debugger section shows up.
You might get errors in the configuration of other php extensions that occur further up in php.ini (e.g., xcache or eaccellerator) that will make loading stuff further down in php.ini problematic.
This is a baseline setup and should work if there are no other problems.
You can also try to install Zend Server Community Edition
You'll get Zend Debugger enabled by default, along with some other nice features. There is a link to the deb repository available through the download page.
I followed the same steps that you did with the same result. In the end the problem was that I was trying to load a 32bit binary with apache running in 64bit mode base (as described in this post) I was able to get it running immediately by doing the following.
stopping apache
executing sudo arch -i386 /usr/sbin/httpd
restarting apache.
After replacing the 32bit binary with the 64bit binary everything worked as expected with no special apache handling. There was also some facepalming involved, but it did not affect the overall outcome.
PHP 5.2.8 is refusing to load php_pgsql.dll, with the following error:
Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'D:\PHP\ext\php_pgsql.dll' - The specified module could not be found.
in Unknown on line 0
The .dll exists in PHP/ext/.
Has anyone else had this problem with PHP on Windows before?
Check out the info on the PHP PostgreSQL installation page: http://us.php.net/manual/en/pgsql.installation.php
On a Windows server, configured with Apache, adding the following line to httpd.conf to load libpq.dll can save you a lot of time :
LoadFile "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/libpq.dll"
Note that you will have to change your folder accordingly to the installation path and version of PostgreSQL you have installed. Also note that having Apache and PostgreSQL on the same server for production environments is not recommended.
This fixed my setup instantly.
This happened to me also with PHP 5.4.1
Copying the offending DLL everywhere didn't work, and I don't have PostgreSQL installed in the server, but I also planned to use PHP against different Postgres versions, so the only solution I found that worked was to put in httpd.conf a line like this:
LoadFile "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/libpq.dll"
And referring to the libpq.dll that comes bundled with PHP, like this:
LoadFile "C:/php/libpq.dll"
After that it worked fine to me.
For those willing to make their PHP install only capable to access PostGres servers, without actually installing PostGres, you need to:
enable php_pgsql.dll (and php_pdo_pgsql.dll, if using PDO) extension in PHP.INI,
make sure libpq.dll, libiconv-2.dll and libintl-8.dll are in the path. These are the php_pgsql.dll dependencies.
These 3 DLLs can be found in the PostGres install. I just copied them into apache\bin, that way I keep everything self contained. Doing that, apache can start the PHP engine just fine, with PostGres support.
The problem is with the related libraries used by php_pgsql.dll - like libpq.dll, the OpenSLL ones etc. You need to find them (from the zip distribution of Postgres, from an installed psqlODBC driver etc.) and put them in a folder which is in the PATH. As for the list of all DLLs - use MS Dependency Walker (depends.exe).
Another important bit - Apache (if you use Apache that is) has its own set of OpenSSL DLLs. Replace or just rename those so to not clash with those from the Postgres distribution.
You need to copy libpq.dll from wamp\bin\php\php5.3.5 to wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\bin. Again restart the Wamp Server. By now we are done with the php configuration. Next we will install phpPgAdmin and use it.
Just a thought -- make sure that the Postgres binaries are in the SYSTEM path, not your user-specific path. As it happens, that was the problem on my machine. :-)
Edit:
Come to think of it, that explains why Dependency Walker would report all A-OK but the problem would still persist -- you run DW under your own account, while Apache runs as SYSTEM, and hence won't have your personal PATH settings available.
Just to share what worked for me, without dealing with libpq.dll. I uncommented both extension=php_pdo_pgsql.dll and extension=php_pgsql.dll in php.ini. At first, apache refused to start.
I then add "C:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\9.4\bin\" (depending on your installation) into windows environment PATH, started apache successfully and works.
Specifically for WAMP server setups here, you need to copy the libpg.dll file into "C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.21\bin\", or similar. Copying it to ..\php\ext\ and also adjusting the PATH env variable simply wasn't enough (if effective at all).
Original answer sourced here: http://www.wampserver.com/phorum/read.php?2,40270,57932
Specifically for XAMPP setups, I found that I only needed to copy the libpg.dll file into ..\php\ext\ directory.
As Ondřej Bouda mentioned: Setting up Windows environment variables is enough. No copies of dlls, no entries to http-conf. Just add the php-directory (C:\xampp\php) to PATH. Don't forget to restart XAMPP-Control-Panel if you use this, otherwise it won't know the changes. (And restart Apache of cause.)
For instance, on XAMPP, it was sufficient to put the PHP directory
(i.e., C:\xampp\php) to the system PATH variable. – Ondřej Bouda
This is an update to #Dayron Armas Peña 's answer. The php bundled pgsql 'dll' is found in the following location:
LoadFile "C:/wamp/bin/php/php5.4.12/libpq.dll"
Adding the above line to the httpd.conf file apart from uncommenting the required lines in the php.ini files has solved my problem.
The only time I've seen this error (and the file name and ext path were definitely correct) was when I tried using an incorrect version of the DLL ie. I used one that was compiled against a different version of PHP to the one I was running.
Make sure your version is definitely the one compiled against PHP 5.2.8.
Edit: or, the permissions on the file were set incorrectly.
LIBPQ.DLL problem with php on Vista...
Check to make sure you actually have postgres installed. If you install php on windows with postgres API, without postgres being installed, you may get this warning. It's too easy to just click everything on the Windows installer...
Comment out the relevant line in php.ini.
I got the solution:
1) If you want to load php_pdo_pgsql extension, please load php_pdo, too. (in php.ini)
2) php_pgsql.dll and php_pdo_pgsql.dll depend on libpq.dll and php5ts.dll. libpg.dll is the library from postgreSQL, but it has been bundled into PHP's binary package.
When configuring PHP to work as a module with Apache, it can't load the depending library correctly. And so you need to load it in Apache.
config in httpd.conf and the two lines should be before LoadModule php5_module
LoadFile "Full path to /php5gs.dll"
LoadFile "full path to libpg.dll"
Hope it be helpful.
You have to add the following lines to you httpd.conf file:
PHPIniDir "c:/PHP/"
Loadfile "C:\php\php5ts.dll"
Loadfile "C:\php\libpq.dll"
LoadModule php5_module "c:/PHP/php5apache2_2.dll"
Source: http://www.php.net/manual/en/pgsql.setup.php
I just did this and it worked just fine
in php folder inside php.ini I changed this line
extension=php_openssl.dll
to
extension=C:\php\ext\php_openssl.dll
the php_openssl.dll is inside ext folder which couldn't be found.
Copy file libpq.dll from location /bin/php/ to
location /bin/apache//bin. Restart the wamp server.
I found this to work for me:
After installation of PostgreSQL, you need to copy libpq.dll from wamp\bin\php\phpX.X.X to wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2*\bin. And restart the Wampserver.