Apache and PHP 'out of the box' on Cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Simon Stone wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Gary/All, I think you have been here before... perhaps you or someone else
> can advise as to what I should do next?
>
> I am trying to run apache + php from recent out of the box version 1.3.20-1
> of cygwin on win98).
>
> When I start apache it always fails when trying to load the php dll...
>
> $ /usr/sbin/apachectl start
> Syntax error on line 237 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
> Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.dll into server: dlopen: Win32 error 31
> /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
>
> Apache works fine without php. The libphp4.dll does exist. The
> /etc/postinstall/apache-php.sh.done script seems to have done its thing ok
> as I have put the dll back into the /usr/lib/apache/new directory and rerun
> this script - rebase runs through ok and my httpd.conf is modified as
> expected by apxs. I am confused as to what I should do next?... apparently
> Win 32 error 31 means "A device attached to the system is not functioning".
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
>
> Cygwin,
>
> One thing that I noticed might be an issue is dependencies for the binary
> installation when choosing the php and apache options: when I first did this
> there seemed to be no dependency to install perl so I didn't; however I
> think you need it for apxs?.... otherwise won't the
> /etc/postinstall/apache-php.sh script just end up leaving you without any
> libphp4.dll??? (I couldn't find one ;o)... in other words apxs fails so dll
> is not put into /usr/lib/apache and the script then removes
> /usr/lib/apache/new/libphp4.dll leaving no libphp4.dll at all.
>
> When I did a completely fresh install as before but included perl then there
> was no missing libphp4.dll.
>
> Cheers
> Simon Stone

Simon,

FYI, the rebase packaged with apache is outdated and may not even work
properly on Win9x.  Try downloading the separate "rebase" package and
using that (the rebase README should provide the details).
	Igor
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