Introduction
PHP is another one of those iconic milestones in the history of the internet. Started by Rasmus Lerdorf back in the mid-90's (similar to Apache), it was originally used to manage his personal home page. This set of Perl scripts, made up what was called PHP Tools and was the foundation of PHP3. Over the past couple of years, there have been some significant changes to PHP to really help it mature. It has been transformed into a solid and globally accepted language which can serve many purposes. PHP is not just used to serve dynamic web pages, but is also used in desktop application development using GTK and/or PHAR, system administration using the CLI aspect, and is used to interface with hundreds of systems. With a growing fan-base, will go strong for decades into the future.Updated: Feb 12, 2012For this article, we will be using version 5.3.10.
Step 1 - Dependencies
PHP's major dependencies rely on what modules you would like to have supported. The basic config included below, will require the following modules to be installed:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev imagemagick \
libpcre3-dev libssl-dev autoconf libmemcached-dev libmemcache-dev \
libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl3 libzip-dev libexif-dev \
libpcre++-dev libmcrypt-dev libmhash-dev libmimelib1-dev \
libcurl4-openssl-dev libpspell-dev toilet libldap2-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libjpeg8-dev bzip2 libbz2-dev libpng12-dev \
libc-client2007e-dev courier-authlib courier-authlib-dev courier-imap \
openssl courier-imap-ssl cmake libtidy-dev bison libsnmp-dev libtool \
libssh2-1-dev libkrb5-dev
Step 2 - Source Code
Let's get the source!
wget http://www.php.net/get/php-5.3.10.tar.gz/from/us2.php.net/mirror
mv mirror php-5.3.10.tar.gz
tar xvzf php-5.3.10.tar.gz
Step 3 - Configure/Make/Install
cd php-5.3.10 ./configure \
'--prefix=/usr/local/php-5.3' \
'--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php-5.3/etc' \
'--with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/php-5.3/etc' \
'--disable-static' \
'--disable-debug' \
'--disable-rpath' \
'--enable-cli' \
'--enable-bcmath' \
'--enable-calendar' \
'--enable-ctype' \
'--enable-exif' \
'--enable-ftp' \
'--enable-gd-native-ttf' \
'--enable-mbstring' \
'--enable-sockets' \
'--enable-wddx' \
'--enable-pdo' \
'--enable-soap' \
'--enable-pcntl' \
'--enable-zip' \
'--enable-sysvsem' \
'--enable-sysvshm' \
'--enable-sysvmsg' \
'--with-mcrypt' \
'--with-mhash' \
'--with-mime-magic' \
'--with-pcre-regex=/usr' \
'--with-pspell=/usr' \
'--with-xmlrpc' \
'--with-zlib=/usr' \
'--with-pear' \
'--with-layout=GNU' \
'--with-ldap' \
'--with-zip=/usr' \
'--with-bz2=/usr' \
'--with-snmp' \
'--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql-5.5' \
'--with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql-5.5' \
'--with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql-5.5/bin/mysql_config' \
'--with-phar' \
'--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache-2.2/bin/apxs' \
'--with-tidy' \
'--with-openssl=/usr' \
'--with-curl' \
'--with-zlib-dir=/usr' \
'--with-xsl' \
'--with-pic' \
'--with-ttf' \
'--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' \
'--with-png-dir=/usr' \
'--with-freetype-dir=/usr' \
'--with-gettext' \
'--with-iconv' \
'--with-imap' \
'--with-kerberos=/usr' \
'--with-imap-ssl=/usr'
make
sudo make install
Step 4 - Postmortem
Once PHP is placed in it's final resting place, /usr/local/php-5.3, we can go ahead and link the config and add the binaries to the system path:
sudo cp php.ini-production /usr/local/php-5.3/etc/php.ini
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/php-5.3/bin
The installer has already added the PHP5 module in Apache's config, resulting in all we need to do is add the TypeHandler. Open /usr/local/apache-2.2/conf/httpd.conf. Add the following to the IfModule mime_module section:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
To restart the server, run:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Step 5 - Verify It's Running
Run netstat to check to make sure your system is listening on port 80/www:
netstat -a | grep www
The output should look similar to the following:
netstat -a | grep www tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN
This confirms Apache is running. To check PHP, run:
php -v
If you see this, then you are done!
PHP 5.3.10 (cli) (built: Dec 7 2011 07:22:59) Copyright (c) 1997-2011 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies
Gotcha's
configure: error: Kerberos libraries not found.
I ran into the above error on an Ubuntu 11.04 x86_64 box, and had to change the order of the configuration options. Kerberos had to be specified AFTER ALL imap extensions. Stick around to see configuration and performance tweaks to get the most out of your server.
Enjoy.
