Recompile PHP

[fr600]

Hello,

I recently installed Apache, PHP and MySQL from Suse Linux 9.3 Professional CD but I found PHP was compiled with '--disable-session'

When I try to login to a page I get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: session_start() in /srv/www/htdocs/login.php on line 35

Now I think I have to recompile PHP with '--enable-session' but I have no idea how to do that. Can anyone help me with this please?

[RustamB]

Once I had to compile PHP with oci8 and freetds support, which is not available as an extension on SuSE cd's and I had to compile it from sources. So I gave up an idea of installing php and apache from SuSE CD's. I would recommend download sources from www.php.net and www.apache.org and configure them the way you want.
Apache:

./configure --with-prefix=/www
make
make install

PHP:

./configure --with-apxs2=/www/bin/apxs --enable-session
make
make install

in httpd.conf add 2 lines to load php module and add php mime type

LoadModule php5_module        modules/libphp5.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml

[fr600]

Actually I tried that before installing from CD but installing MySQL is extra pain for me. But now I'll give it another try. Thanks for your reply.