[Mapserver-users] Shared library error with PHP MapScript

[Daryl Herzmann]

Howdy,

I will take a stab...

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Doug wrote:

> Fedora Core 2, Apache 2, PHP 4.3.8, PHP-MapScript 4.2.1.
>
> When we dl("php_mapscript.so") in a test php file, we get:
>
> PHP Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library 
> '/usr/lib/php4/php_mapscript.so' - libpq.so.3: cannot open shared object 
> file: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/test.php on line 2
>
> in Apache's error log. But when we run the same file from the command-line 
> (php test.php), there is no error and the MapScript section of phpinfo() is 
> displayed fine.
>
> Also, ldd/usr/lib/php4/php_ mapscript.so seems to show no problems with any 
> of its .so files, including libpq.so.3.

Where is libpq.so.3 located on the system?  Is it /usr/local/pgsql/lib/ ?

Can the user that apache is running as have permissions to see this file?

Just for kicks, run the locate command see if there are any other libs 
hanging out on the system

locate libpq.so.3
locate php_mapscript.so

HTH,
   daryl

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