Comments on: PHP5 on Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:40:35 +0000

Alexandre, you forgot to do the following:
make
sudo make install
from the php directory from terminal
this creates the libphp5.so file that is missing if you get that error. I did the above and it worked.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:58:46 +0000

Do you install the fink components first or after you have installed php5?

By: Alexandre Cassagne

Alexandre Cassagne — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:42:54 +0000

it says (when i do appachetl configtest):
“Syntax error on line 240 of /etc/httpd/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/libexec/httpd/libphp5.so into server: (reason unknown)”

Someone help me?

By: Alexandre Cassagne

Alexandre Cassagne — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:41:10 +0000

mine still doesn’t work. Apparently there was a problem.

By: fungus

fungus — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:13:38 +0000

Yes PHP5 will run on Apache 1.3.3. If your php info page is still showing PHP4, Apache is loading the wrong module. There are 3 lines that reference the module.

Here is what they look like:
LoadModule php4_module libexec/httpd/libphp4.so ... AddModule mod_php4.c ...

My directions above assumed that the first two lines were modified by the “make install”. If that didn’t happen you have to change them yourself.

Just open the config file in your editor and search for php4 and replace with php5. Or for a quick one line command to make all the changes run this.

sed -i .bak -e 's/php4/php5/g' /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

By: Mark Bayhylle

Mark Bayhylle — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:45:57 +0000

Hi there,

I need some help bad. I’ve tried the entropy package for php5.1.4 and I’ve also compiled from source using your instructions (which work great by the way). I still cannot get .php files to show in my browser and when I test the php config it still shows php4.x.x.
I’m on 10.4.7 with apache 1.3.3. This is killing me. Does php5 not work with apache1.3.3?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Mark Bayhylle