libmysqlclient

**garv** · 10-05-2004

Well I got MySQL installed and it is working well but when i try to fire up Apache I get error messages. I searched the forums here and also on google.com but nothing that seems to be a solution to my problem showed up.

The error that I got was this:

Code:

Syntax error on line 238 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf&#58;
Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache/libphp5.so into server&#58; libmysqlclient.so.12&#58; cannot open shared object file&#58; No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/apachectl start&#58; httpd could not be started

Now I know I have the libmysqlclient.so.12 file along with libmysqlclient.so so I'm not really sure where the problem is or where it originates. Does anyone have any suggestions?

**kkubasik** · 10-06-2004

did you try pointing it to the .so12 as the .so? also a reinstall might help.

**garv** · 10-06-2004

sorry for being such a noob but how would i point it to the .so12 as the .so?

**wassy121** · 10-19-2004

I don't think you have MySQL installed correctly then. Try to do the following:

udatedb
locate libmysqlclient | grep so

Then see if it happened to install it into a non-standard directory like /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.so.12 or something. If that is the case, and there is no /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.*, you can just put /usr/local/mysql/lib into the linker path with:

echo "/usr/local/mysql/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
ldconfig

You will need to do the above two as the root user.

Best,

Samuel

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