Apache web server not working...PLEASE HELP!!

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Apache web server not working...PLEASE HELP!!

I'm trying to get apache working on my Mac so I can host a website that will access a local MySQL database. I've researched this for a while. When I run the command:

#sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl -t

I get the following output:

httpd: Syntax error on line 75 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_deflate.so into server: dlopen(/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_deflate.so, 10): Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib\n Referenced from: /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_deflate.so\n Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:\n\t/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper\n\t/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper\n\t/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

How do I fix this issue? I would really like to get this running without having to resort to a virtual Linux box or using XAMMP if possible. Thanks for any help you can provide!

Mike

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 23, 2009 7:36 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 23, 2009 9:34 AM in response to orangekay

Okay, so how do I fix this issue? Is there some way I can fix the error, or at least re-install apache on this machine?

Mike

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Answer 2

orangekay

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Feb 23, 2009 9:38 AM in response to Michael Price3

Reinstall the OS.

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Answer 3

Feb 23, 2009 9:40 AM in response to orangekay

Well, I'm not doing that. So I guess I'll have to do what I want on a virtual Linux box. Thank you anyway for your help.

Mike

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Answer 4

Feb 23, 2009 9:41 AM in response to orangekay

Of course, when you say "Reinstall the OS", do you mean a clean install or an "Archive & install"?

Mike

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Answer 5

Feb 24, 2009 12:39 PM in response to Michael Price3

Try downloading and installing the 10.5.6 combo update. Apache was updated as part of that update, and mod_deflate.so is included in that package...

charlie

Message was edited by: Charles Minow

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Answer 6

Feb 25, 2009 5:39 AM in response to Charles Minow

Charlie,

I tried what you suggested, but that didn't fix the problem. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to reinstall the system or wait for the next major release to get this fixed. In the meantime, I will just get things running on a Linux box.

Thanks,
Mike

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Answer 7

Feb 25, 2009 6:37 AM in response to Michael Price3

Hi Mike--

Michael Price3 wrote:
I tried what you suggested, but that didn't fix the problem.

Sorry, I should have read the entries from your error log closer. It's not actually a problem with the mod_deflate.so file, but in a file that links to it.

What do you get as the result of this?:

<pre class="command">ls -l /usr/lib/libz.*</pre>

I get this:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Nov 18 08:52 /usr/lib/libz.1.1.3.dylib -> libz.1.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 346144 Sep 23 2007 /usr/lib/libz.1.2.3.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Nov 18 08:52 /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib -> libz.1.2.3.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Nov 18 08:52 /usr/lib/libz.dylib -> libz.1.2.3.dylib

Since all the dylibs are links to libz.1.2.3.dylib, I checked mine and it's definitely a four-way fat binary:

<pre class="command">file /usr/lib/libz.1.2.3.dylib</pre>

/usr/lib/libz.1.2.3.dylib: Mach-O universal binary with 4 architectures
/usr/lib/libz.1.2.3.dylib (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O dynamically linked shared library ppc
/usr/lib/libz.1.2.3.dylib (for architecture ppc64): Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library ppc64
/usr/lib/libz.1.2.3.dylib (for architecture i386): Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386
/usr/lib/libz.1.2.3.dylib (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64

This, unfortunately doesn't appear to have been updated since the original release of 10.5 (though I haven't installed the latest security update, so I don't know if it's updated there).

One other thing to try would be to see if you can extract it off your original installation DVD using Pacifist. On the other hand, that might just be the first of a number of libraries that are missing pieces and an OS re-install might still be necessary...

charlie

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Answer 8

Feb 25, 2009 7:01 AM in response to Charles Minow

Charlie,

Here's what I get from #ls -l /usr/lib/libz.*:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Sep 10 10:38 /usr/lib/libz.1.1.3.dylib -> libz.1.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 msprice 501 174480 May 22 2006 /usr/lib/libz.1.2.3.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Sep 10 10:38 /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib -> libz.1.2.3.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Sep 10 10:38 /usr/lib/libz.dylib -> libz.1.2.3.dylib

What I'll probably do is wait until Snow Leopard comes out, and then hope that install fixes the issue. Thanks for all your help; hopefully others that followed my path will at least see this thread and know what happened.

Mike

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Answer 9

Feb 25, 2009 6:25 PM in response to Michael Price3

Mike--

Yep, looks like that file got migrated over, since the user and group are wrong. Also, it's about half the size of the lib on my computer, so it's probably missing two of the architectures.

charlie

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