libxml.so.2 not symlinked into /usr/lib

[Jim Salter]

proxy_html.load looks for libxml.so.2 in /usr/lib, but it's not there - it's in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml.so.2.

root@webserver:/var/log/apache2# /etc/init.d/apache2 start
 * Starting web server apache2 apache2: Syntax error on line 210 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/proxy_html.load: Cannot load /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 into server: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
                                                                                        [fail]
root@webserver:/var/log/apache2# locate libxml2.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.7.8
root@webserver:/var/log/apache2# ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
root@webserver:/var/log/apache2# /etc/init.d/apache2 start
 * Starting web server apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
                                                                                          [ OK ]
root@webserver:/var/log/apache2#

[Jim Salter (jrssnet)]

note: I've seen this on every Ubuntu Precise server I've installed libapache2-mod-proxy-html, which is six-ish - this is just the first moment I've found time to file the bug. :)