---
title: "Tale of the missing libphp5.so"
date: "2010-06-28"
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  - "/55"
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  - "/blog/taleofthemissinglibphp5so"
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---

A recent Debian package update appeared to remove PHP from Apache's configured modules. As a result when apache restarted I was presented with:

```
Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libphp5.so
```

A quick search using locate was my first port-of-call resulting in ziltch.\
So a rather simple command plus restart solved the issue:

```
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
apache2ctl restart
```