The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 13.1 Apache won't start after installing squirrelmail

I was delighted to find HowtoForge Linux tutorial The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 13.1 x86_64 (Apache2, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3) and I am following it as closely as I can.

Because I had no static IP, I skipped step 4 Configure The Network Settings on page 3, leaving the system configured to get the IP address with DHCP (I DID turn off the firewall, tho).

On advice from Till Brehm on this forum, I commented out line 48 of /etc/apache2/ssl-global.conf

Code:

SSLSessionCache		shmcb:/var/lib/apache2/ssl__scache(512000)

which was preventing Apache from starting, after installing installing Apache 2, PHP 5, the Python mod & PHPMyAdmin on page 4.

After commenting out

Code:

        suPHP_AddHandler application/x-httpd-php

in configuration file /etc/apache2/conf.d/mod_suphp.conf during step 18 Install SquirrelMail on page 5 I found Apache failed to restart.

Running

Code:

# systemctl status apache2.service -l

produced [inter alia] the information:-

Line 4 of /etc/apache2/conf.d/squirrelmail.conf has [and continues]:-

Code:

php_admin_flag register_globals Off
php_admin_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
php_admin_flag allow_url_include Off
php_admin_flag allow_url_fopen Off
php_admin_flag session.use_only_cookies On
php_admin_flag session.cookie_httponly On
php_admin_value open_basedir "/srv/www/htdocs/sqirrelmail:/var/lib/squirrelmail:/usr/share/php5/PEAR:/tmp"
</Directory>

I guess that if Line 4 can be commented then all the lines using php_admin_flag would have to be commented.

Can anybody advise me? Is there a missing module?

TIA

rupertrealbear

 

Check this thread for apache part http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60845

 

Thanks srijan

I commented out all the "php_admin_flag . . . " lines in /etc/apache2/conf.d/squirrelmail.conf and successfully restarted Apache.

Falko's post (12th March 2013, 17:21) also advised to check the mod_php is enabled. It turns out that part of the output from

Code:

systemctl status apache2.service

included the line:-

Code:

Module "mod_php" is not installed, ignoring

Do you think I can ignore that, too? yast2 >software management > apache includes, under [Dependencies][View][Configuration][Extras]:-

Code:

apache2-mod_php5 - PHP5 Module for Apache 2.0

I don't really know how to get hold of mod_php if it is absent and needed (would I have to re-install Apache?)

Regards

rupertrealbrear

 

Hi Till

I reinstalled Apache as you suggested (the command matched the one I did earlier)

I ran:

a2enmod php
a2enmod php5

and restarted apache.

systemctl status apache2.service -l

gave [inter alia]:-

Code:

Module "mod_php" is not installed, ignoring.
Check the APACHE_MODULES setting in /etc/sysconfig/apache2.
Module "php" is not installed, ignoring.
Check the APACHE_MODULES setting in /etc/sysconfig/apache2.

If it helps, the APACHE_MODULES settings in /etc/sysconfig/apache2 seems to be:-

Code:

# your settings
APACHE_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_file authz_groupfile authz_user autoindex cgi dir env expires include log_config mime negotiation setenvif ssl userdir reqtimeout authn_core authz_core suexec rewrite suphp fcgid dav dav_fs dav_lock logio python mod_fastcgi socache_shmcb php php5"

Any ideas?

Regards

rupertrealbear

 

Hi again, Till

I actually re-installed openSUSE 13.1 and got to the end with very few hiccups.

By running

Code:

curl -s checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'

I was able to get my public IP from inside openSUSE.

I checked that Apache was running with

Code:

systemctl status apache2.service -l

and it WAS running (with no warnings).

I then tried to connect to my ISPConfig3 with

Code:

http://[my public IP]:8080

and even

Code:

https://[my public IP]:8080

but the webpage was not available.

I am puzzled

Any ideas?

Best regards

Guy