Building PHP5 on SuSE 9.2 Pro

Tedi Heriyanto

April 19, 2005

Introduction

For development tools such PHP, I really like to be on the bleeding edge. When the developers release their new version, they always release it in source code version (.tar.gz or .tar.bz2). Besides, SuSE 9.2 Pro came with PHP4. So I really need to install PHP5 from source.

PHP5 Installation

And here is my notes in installing PHP5 from source (.tar.bz2) on SuSE 9.2 Pro :

• Download PHP5 from http://www.php.net

• Create a simple configure script to ease the PHP5 configuration. Here is my configure script :

  #!/bin/sh
  
  PHP=5.0.4
  
  echo "Extracting $PHP"
  echo
  tar xvjpf php-$PHP.tar.bz2
  
  cd php-$PHP
  echo "Configuring PHP..."
  echo
  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5 --with-config-file-path=/etc/php5 \
  --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs2 \
  --enable-track-vars --with-gd --with-ftp \
  --enable-memory-limit --with-mysql --with-pgsql --with-zlib \
  --enable-soap --with-sqlite
  
  echo "Build PHP...."
  echo
  make
  

• Install the PHP5 to the system :

  $ cd php-x.y.z
  $ su 
  # make install
  # strip /usr/lib/apache2/libphp5.so
  # cp php.ini-dist /etc/php5/php.ini
  

• Add the following entry to file /etc/sysconfig/apache2 :

  APACHE_MODULES="... libphp5"
  

• Create a new config file /etc/apache2/conf.d/php5.conf with the following entries :

  <IfModule mod_php5.c>
          AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
          AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
          DirectoryIndex index.php
  </IfModule>
  

• Restart your apache2 server :

  # rcapache2 restart
  Syntax OK
  Shutting down httpd2 (waiting for all children to terminate)          done
  Starting httpd2 (prefork)                                             done
  

• Create public_html directory in your home directory :

  $ pwd
  /home/tedi
  
  $ mkdir public_html
  

• Create a test PHP file named index.php and put it in your public_directory that has been created on the previous step.

  cat index.php
  <?php phpinfo(); ?>
  

• Launch your favorite browser and access to
  

  http://localhost/~your_user/index.php
  

Closing

Until next time. Have a nice PHP day. :D