PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0

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Rockforduk

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Hi Everyone,
I for love no money can find out why this is still happening it is filling up error logs like nothing

[03-Dec-2021 13:40:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:41:01 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:41:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:42:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:42:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:43:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:43:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:44:01 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:44:01 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:45:01 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:45:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:46:01 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:46:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:47:01 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:47:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:48:01 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
[03-Dec-2021 13:48:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Module 'redis' already loaded in Unknown on line 0

grep redis -R /opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:; Enable redis extension module
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:; extension = redis.so
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:; phpredis can be used to store PHP sessions.
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;session.save_handler = redis
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.algorithm = ''
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.auth = ''
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.autorehash = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.connecttimeout = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.consistent = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.distributor = ''
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.functions = ''
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.hosts = ''
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.index = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.lazyconnect = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.names = ''
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.pconnect = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.previous = ''
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.readtimeout = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.arrays.retryinterval = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.clusters.auth = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.clusters.cache_slots = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.clusters.persistent = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.clusters.read_timeout = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.clusters.seeds = ''
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.clusters.timeout = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.pconnect.pooling_enabled = 1
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.pconnect.connection_limit = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.pconnect.echo_check_liveness = 1
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.pconnect.pool_pattern => ''
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.session.lock_expire = 0
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.session.lock_retries = 10
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.session.lock_wait_time = 2000
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:;redis.session.locking_enabled = 0

Not sure what i am missing to resolve this? Any recommendations would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Rockforduk
 

quietFinn

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I've seen those errors several times and usually it's caused by a line in some user's php.ini file, but Apache error log doesn't tell the user.
There is no referer in any of those error lines?
 
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Damian

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I am also seeing the same error repeated in the apache error_log.

Current cPanel (stable), CloudLinux CentOS7, EA-PHP74. No references to redis in ini files in the account. And it's not unique to this single account, it's occurring across all users.

Any suggestions on where to look?
 
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andrew.n

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@Damian: do you see this under "php -v" via SSH as root? If yes you can do "php --ini" then based on the ini file path do:

grep -r redis /etc/path

to show if reference to redis is shown up there multiple times. Please paste here the outputs.
 

Damian

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Thanks @andrew.n I didn't see it appear with php -v but after some digging around in /opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/ I found two reference to redis.so

./etc/php.d/redis.ini:1:extension=redis.so
./etc/php.d/50-redis.ini:2:extension = redis.so

So I commented it out of 50-redis.ini and restarted apache.

I haven't seen the error since and redis appears to be working fine on the site that it was installed for. Now I need look into how to have each user (cPanel) have their own instance of redis to avoid collisions and potential security issues.
 
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andrew.n

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Good job. There are some Redis plugins out there which you can also try like the one from Unixy or this one:


though all seems to be quiet outdated :(
 

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stay away from this site (unixy.net), i bought two weeks ago, no links, no software, no answers, i opened dispute on paypal