mod_lua.so not loading in the new version of HTTPD server httpd-rhel-2.4.63-20250218195700.tar.bz2 on RHEL8

Products

• VMware Tanzu Spring Runtime

Issue/Introduction

When using HTTPD server httpd-rhel-2.4.63, the web server failed to mod_lua on RHEL8 with the following error:

httpsd.worker: Syntax error on line 45 of /usr/local/apache/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 30 of /usr/local/apache/httpd/conf/include/proxy.conf: Cannot load modules/mod_lua.so into server: liblua-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Environment

 RHEL 8.10httpd-rhel-2.4.63

 

Cause

The problem is related to missing liblua 5.3 support for httpd-rhel-2.4.63 that is build using the old liblua 5.1.

 

Resolution

Download and use the new httpd-rhel-2.4.63 build that support liblua 5.3 on RHEL 8.

https://packages.broadcom.com/artifactory/spring-enterprise/com/vmware/tanzu/httpd/httpd-rhel/2.4.63-20250305172752/httpd-rhel-2.4.63-20250305172752.tar.bz2