Re: php madness

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>]

Check to make sure that you didn't try to restart apache with 
'apachectl restart' - that will cause this problem if apache is
chroot'ed, since it wont be able to reload the modules it needs.

I'm looking at solving this with privsep in Apache, but well
after 3.4

-anil

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:47:22PM +0200, Matteo Cavalleri wrote:
> since i installed openbsd 3.3 i added php-core and php-pgsql module,
> configured them and apache, started to build my site, etc etc....
> everything was working perfectly. last time i worked on my site has been
> more or less 4 days ago. today i loaded my site in my web browser and i
> had an error saying more or less "undefined function pg_connect()"...
> after a bit of investigation i discovered that php had "lost" the pgsql
> module and all its configuration parameters were reset to the default.
> since everything on disk was unchanged since last time i tried to
> stop and restart apache and all the problems disappeared....
> 
> i'd like to know if someone has any clue about this thing, because i
> really can't understand why it happened. i don't even know if it's a
> php related problem or an openbsd related problem.
> 
> i searched the web of course, but all i could find where messages about
> misconfigured php installation (which is not my case), and my logs
> revealed nothing strange...
> 
> any help is really appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> 
>     Shiva
> 
>   "Better true to yourself
> Than a perfect shadow
>        Of somebody else
>      An empty shell"
> 
> (MrBig, My new religion)
> 

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Anil Madhavapeddy                                   http://anil.recoil.org
University of Cambridge                            http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk