Apache trouble with Snow Leopard, localhost not recognized, seemingly

[elliotpo]

Hi, I'm fairly new to this all and new to this forum -

Prior to Snow Leopard, I had no trouble accessing localhost with a browser. Since then - and since blanking the hard drive and re-installing Apache -- I can't get any browsers to pull anything from localhost. I just get a blank screen, no error message at all. I can enter anything after http://localhost, it makes no difference.

After spending some time on some other forums, I entered sudo apachectl -t into the terminal and got this back:

httpd: Syntax error on line 488 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 8 of /private/etc/apache2/other/+entropy-php.conf: Cannot load /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/usr/local/php5/libphp5.so, 10): Symbol not found: _libiconv\n Referenced from: /usr/local/php5/lib/libintl.8.dylib\n Expected in: /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib\n

I can get to those files, but I have no idea how to correct this, or if it's necessary. any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Elliot

 

[angelwatt]

Did you reinstall Apache from the source? It looks like something just went a little screwy with the install. I've seen other posts like this. I generally use MAMP on my laptop to get a Apache, PHP, MySQL setup. You may want to give it a try.

 

[elliotpo]

Ah -

I actually didn't reinstall Apache, I'm just sleepy and am getting mixed up. I reinstalled PHP and MySQL. Nothing funny seemed to happen. All settings in the httpd.conf file are the same as they were prior to Snow Leopard.

 

[angelwatt]

That makes the error make a little more sense since it noted the php5 part, "Cannot load /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so". Does that exist on your install of PHP?

 

[elliotpo]

Yeah it's there, but -

Is it supposed to look like this? Here's the first number of lines:



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[elliotpo]

If it helps at all (and thanks for answering) Firefox gives me the blank page. Safari tells me the server dropped the request, which sometimes happens, and try again etc etc

 

[angelwatt]

Is it supposed to look like this? Here's the first number of lines:

If you mean should it look like gooblygook, then yes. I have PHP installed through MAMP so my file may look a little different.

For debugging, try commenting out that line with the libphp5.so in the httpd.conf file (add a # to the beginning of the file). See if Apache starts up fine after that (sudo apachectl -t).

 

[elliotpo]

Ah, I got it working -

It WAS the line you're talking about; but I had to uncomment it. Thanks.

 

[klynn09]

php pages not recognized in MAMP

I am having a similar problem... But I AM using MAMP and from what I can tell, php, MySQL and Apache are all working correctly. However, I placed a set of php files into the root folder (/Applications/MAMP/htdocs) but all I get is a blank page when I browse to localhost. I also tried placing the files into the "sites" folder under user/ and that just shows me a directory listing of the files in that folder. What am I missing or not doing correctly? I am just learning php and have very basic knowledge of how all this works. Any help you can send my way would be appreciated.

Thanks!