Upgrade Problems

Hello Everyone,

First of all, I really appreciate any help you guys can give me. I'm no FreeBSD expert.

OK, so my set up: Basically, an Intranet. We have PHP Scripts on th server which I wrote, which everyone in the office accesses by IP. (Go to Internet Explorer: http://192.168.1.5). It isn't a public webserver or anything like that.

That being said, I updated cvsup last night, and did portupgrade on Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Current Versions Installed:
Apache: 1.3.31
PHP: 4.3.8
MySQL: 3.23.58

Here is the problems I'm having:

1) Apache no longer starts up automatically. I have to manually do an "apachectl start" to get Apache up and running. What logs can I check ot see why Apache isn't starting up?

2) PHP doesn't know how to connect to mySQL. Somehow when I did portupgrade, I guess it didn't upgrade PHP to a version with MySQL Installed?? Here is some info from phpinfo();



Please, any help you can provide, I'd appreciate it. I'm going to be here until I can get it fixed.

Thanks so much guys, I really appreciate it!!

PS- I can pay you to help me fix this if needed.

Hi,

the standard apache startscript is placed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, and usually relys on variables that are initialized in /etc/rc.conf. Check if a startup script is present (usually apache.ch), make sure everything is ok (i.e. the httpd binary is in the correct location) and that the necessary variables are set in rc.conf (apache_enable, apache_flags, apache_pidfile). The startup script provided by apache is fairly well commented....

do you use the php4-mysql port?
(/usr/ports/databases/php4-mysql)

-Steven

Steven,

You are a saint! Thanks! Apache is running again. apache_enable was set to NO. I updated that, then also cleaned up my rc.d file. sysinstall made it a mess.

To upgrade PHP, here is what I did.



Was that wrong? Is there any way you can walk me through how to undo that and how to go through doing the PHP-MySQL??

Thanks So much Steven.

-Ben

awww, schucks. don't mention it...

that upgrade was fine, (however, when the ports tree is in default location, as yours is, you do not need the -o switch: "portupgrade mod_php4" suffices).

have you rechecked your php.ini file (likely in /usr/local/etc/)? It may have been overwritten or changed...

The mod_php4 is the apache module. If you are having problems connecting to MySQL, maybe you need the php4-mysql port. The php ports were split up and it all got a bit confusing (at least for me)... I am no php guru.


-Steven

I went ahead and ran the meta thing for php4-extensions, and it got MySQL Installed and enabled. I just copied over the php.ini-reccomended file. It seems to be working...I just need to tweak my php.ini file I think.

Thanks so much!!!