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I installed PHP 5.5 on my Amazon Linux VPS via the instructions here. The CLI is working fine.

I also had apache already installed and running via the httpd package. It was running without any issue.

I see that there is no mod_php in the list of available modules. Now when I try to restart httpd I get the error:

httpd: Syntax error on line 222 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 6 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/libphp5.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/libphp5.so: symbol SSLeay_version, version OPENSSL_1.0.1 not defined in file libcrypto.so.10 with link time reference

I've looked up parts of this error, and the general advice seems to be to run

yum update openssl

However, when I run this I just get:

No packages marked for update

When I run install instead of update, I get:

Package 1:openssl-1.0.1e-4.55.amzn1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

I'm not sure what else to do at this point.

I'm running apache on my local machine and I'm trying to create a subdomain, but it's not working. Here is what I have (stripped down):

<VirtualHost *:80>
   DocumentRoot /var/www/one
   ServerName one.localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
   DocumentRoot /var/www/two
   ServerName two.localhost
</VirtualHost>

I recently added one. The two entry has been around for a while, and it still works fine (displays the webpage when I go to two.localhost). In fact, I copied the entire two.localhost entry and simply changed two to one, but it's not working. I have tried each of the following:

* `apachectl -k graceful`
* `apachectl -k restart`
* `/etc/init.d/apache2 restart`
* `/etc/init.d/apache2 stop && !#:0 start`

Apache will complain if /var/www/one does not exist, so I know it's doing something, but when I visit one.localhost in my browser, the browser complains that nothing is there. I put an index.html file there and also tried going to one.localhost/index.html directly, and the browser still won't fine it. This is very perplexing since the entry I copied from two.localhost is exactly the same .. not only that, but if something were wrong I would expect to get a 500 rather than the browser not being able to find anything. The error_log also has nothing extra.

I have rewrite rule that works okay, but ends up changing the visible URL if a trailing slash is omitted when going to an index.php:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI} !main
RewriteRule /.* /~user/main$0

When someone visits

http://user.dev.example.com/utilities/pib/

The page works fine. However, if they visit

http://user.dev.example.com/utilities/pib

They are redirected to

http://user.dev.example.com/~user/main/utilities/pib/

This still works fine, but I'd rather have the URL not change. The server has other configuration that allows for ~user in the URL to take you to public_html on the disc (where these files are located). So the actual URL should be:

http://dev.example.com/~user/main/utilities/pib/

But it still leaves my name in the domain. I'm not sure if I am even able to solve this problem, but I'm also not sure what other configuration could cause it.

I am trying to password protect a web directory with apache. I have the site set up like this:

D:/
   webapp/
      lib/
         .htpasswd
   document_root/
      admin/
         index.php
         .htaccess

The .htaccess has:

AuthName "Authorization Required" 
AuthType Basic 
AuthUserFile D:\webapp\lib\.htpasswd
require valid-user

And the .htpasswd has:

user:passworddigest

When I try to access localhost/index.php in the browser I get a 500 error. The apache error log has this:

["date"] [crit] [client "ip"] configuration error:  couldn't check user.  Check your authn provider!: /admin/

I have googled but I can't figure out what this error means in the context of my server. Anyone know what's up? Also, it would solve my problem if someone had a simple method of using apache for authenticating a web directory on a windows server.

I am running a windows server (windows 7) with IIS 7. ESMTP MailEnable is running on port 25. I am also running apache and php on the server. When I use php's mail() it returns false indicating that it can't connect to the outgoing SMTP server (at least I believe that's what it means). I can tell that MailEnable is running because when I run

>telnet localhost 25

the response is

220 WDC1358.home ESMTP MailEnable Service, Version: 5.10-- ready at 06/18/11 20:06:43

I am at a loss for why this is not working with php. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am not a server admin at all, so forgive me.

I uploaded my website to a new windows server and am using mail(), but it's returning false. This indicates to me that the server is not properly set up to send emails. My php.ini has

SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25

which I believe is the default.

I don't even know where to go from here. How can I check if SMTP is installed and working on port 25 of localhost? If it is, how can I get it to work with php mail()? Do I need to change something in apache?

I'm a complete noob at windows servers and IIS so please be patient with me.

I originally set up a website using php/mysql. I have the website running PHP with FastCGI through IIS already, but the SQL Server part is tripping me up. I'm shocked that there are no instructions about this that I can find anywhere.

I installed a bunch of SQL Server options through the Web Platform Installer (WPI). I can't connect using sqlcmd or the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. I get the same error for both ("A network related or instance-specific error has occurred...") I know I'm missing a vital step to start up the server and connect to it, but I can't find what I need to do anywhere. SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS) is displaying as running in my services list. In the SQL Server Configuration manager, SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS) is shown as running in the SQL Server Services list. SQL Server Browser and SQL Server Agent are listed, but stopped, and the option to start them is grayed out.

I need to be able to create my DB on this machine through something and connect to the server through php with the sqlsrv driver. The sqlsrv_* functions work, but I can't connect to localhost with sqlsrv_connect() either. I'm sure I'm just missing some important step to get the server actually running.

I'd love to use LAMP, but a lot of the other application software relies on SQL Server and windows.