[CentOS] apache 2 and php 5.2

[Keith Roberts]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Paul A wrote:

> To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos at centos.org>
> From: Paul A <razor at meganet.net>
> Subject: [CentOS] apache 2 and php 5.2
> 
> Hi originally I installed php 4 on centos 5.5 and then a few repos including
> the remi repo to upgrade to php5, which seems to upgrade/work without any
> issues.
>
> However when I make a change to the /etc/php.ini file it doesn't look like
> apache is seeing it, for example if I change the post_max_size and
> upload_max_file to 25M each apache still sees the default 2M. I also removed
> the /etc/php.ini file and apache is able to start with no problems and it
> will still see the default 2M.

...

> php --ini
>
> PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library
> '/usr/lib/php/modules/pdo_odbc.so' - /usr/lib/php/modules/pdo_odbc.so:
> undefined symbol: php_pdo_get_dbh_ce in Unknown on line 0

This could indicate a conflict in the installation - the 
fact that PHP is looking for a missing library file.

I'm sure your installation of PHP and/or apache is trashed :(

It's *easy done* when mixing repos, if you don't take great 
care with your yum priorities.

Do you have multiple versions of apache packages installed 
somehow?

Keith

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