apache 2.2 - Amazon Linux LAMP with php 5.5

I installed PHP 5.5 on my Amazon Linux VPS via the instructions here. The CLI is working fine.

I also had apache already installed and running via the httpd package. It was running without any issue.

I see that there is no mod_php in the list of available modules. Now when I try to restart httpd I get the error:

httpd: Syntax error on line 222 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 6 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/libphp5.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/libphp5.so: symbol SSLeay_version, version OPENSSL_1.0.1 not defined in file libcrypto.so.10 with link time reference

I've looked up parts of this error, and the general advice seems to be to run

yum update openssl

However, when I run this I just get:

No packages marked for update

When I run install instead of update, I get:

Package 1:openssl-1.0.1e-4.55.amzn1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

I'm not sure what else to do at this point.

Answer

The php55 package in Amazon's repositories depends on httpd24, not httpd (which is 2.2). Using the more recent version of Apache should resolve your issues.

$ repoquery --requires php55
/bin/sh
httpd-mmn = 20120211-x86-64
httpd24
...