The Soothingly Seamless Setup of Apache, SSL, MySQL, and PHP - PHP Installation (*NIX) (
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Now it's time to
install the PHP (Hypertext Prerocessor) language.
You are still
supposedly root, if not su back to root.
PHP requires that you have
Apache pre-configured so that it knows where where everything is. You will come
back to this later in the section when you setup the Apache server. Change back
to the directory where you have the sources.
# cd /tmp/download# gunzip -c apache_1.3.12.tar.gz | tar xf -# cd apache_1.3.12# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache# cd ..
Ok, now you can start with PHP. Extract the source files and change
to the new directory.
# gunzip -c php-4.0.0.tar.gz | tar xf -# cd php-4.0.0
Configure will always be your friend if you are compiling code :-)
So, again there are many options with the configure command. Use "configure
--help" to determine what you want to add. We just want MySQL and of course
Apache.
#
./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-xml
\
--with-apache=../apache_1.3.12 \
--enable-track-vars
Make and install the binaries.
#
make#
make install
Copy the ini file to the lib directory.
# cp php.ini-dist
/usr/local/lib/php.ini
You can edit the PHP file to set PHP options. You could for example
increase the "max_execution_time" in PHP by inserting the following line in your
php.ini file.
max_execution_time = 60;
