Php

[athomasxx]

I am totally confused when it comes to installing php 5 with apache 2.2. I know how to install an rpm, but php comes as a tarball. I dont know where to extract it to, and what files to edit to get it to work.

Can somebody write up a quick tutorial or point me to something better than php.net?

[piwener]

which distro are you using?
you may want to type simply yum install php

[athomasxx]

PCLinux 07.

Searching has turned up nothing, it's all about starting from scratch with no apache and no php.

[piwener]

you want to start from scratch, so you need to compile the PHP
something like extract the tar, then run:

./configure
make
make install

you can run ./configure --help to see more options.
you may see many errors on screen, please fix them top-down one by one

[athomasxx]

k so copy the tarball to where, after extracting cd to the dir it extracted to and do ./configure.. make and make install? Dont i have to edit httpd.conf

[piwener]

yeah, you right. you need to edit your httpd.conf
It's something like:

LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/lib/php/libphp5.so # edit the right path
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>

[athomasxx]

So it doesnt matter where i extract the tarball to? Just run the make on it? How do I know what the path is that it installs to?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[piwener]

If you're also compiling httpd from scratch, you may want to follow this:
PHP: Apache 2.0 on Unix systems - Manual

good luck!!!

[athomasxx]

HTTPD is already working, so is sql. i need to know how to get php to work under these circumstances.

Thanks!

[davidanand]

hey,

just a manual compilation of php with all your modules you require in php thats it compile the php restart the httpd all set

sample include modules such as
./configure \
--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
--disable-debug \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-inline-optimization \
--enable-magic-quotes \
--enable-mbstring \
..............................................