apxs missing in Apache 2.0

[czamora]

Hi,

My hosted server has Apache 2.0.40 installed, but it does not appear to have apxs. Is that possible? And, how can I fix that?

Thanks a lot for any help.

[gesf]

Your platform has to support the DSO (Dynamic Shared Object) feature and your Apache httpd binary has to be built with the mod_so module.
The apxs tool automatically complains if this is not the case.

This can be checked by manually running: $ httpd -l

[czamora]

My platform is Red Hat 9, which I think supports apxs, because the php that is installed there indicates that it was configured --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs' (though there is no apxs file in /usr/sbin)

And $httpd -l gives:
Compiled in modules:
core.c
prefork.c
http_core.c
mod_so.c

So it seems all requisites are met.

I don't understand what you say about the apxs tool complaining... how can it if it does not exist?

[bking01]

I had the same problem. The only file I could find was apxs.html. Finally I noticed that apxs.html was installed from httpd-manual, not httpd. So I tried installing httpd-devel, and apxs showed up! (even in /usr/sbin where is was supposed to be!) Redhat doesn't install httpd-devel by default, and the precompiled packages don't need it, so we didn't run in to this until we tried to compile a new version.

you can get the devel rpm that matches your apache install from:
http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/9/updates/i386/

-Ben

[zet]

Same problem here. Thank you for your reply, bking01.
I think that's it. I give it a try.
Strange anyway...
My Apache 2.0 was compiled by default by fedora 5 with "--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs" and there was no /usr/sbin/apxs