Installing PHP 5.3 on CentOS 5.3

Firstly, you'll need to download the php-5.3 source from http://us.php.net.
Next make sure the following dependencies are installed. You can use 'yum install [package]' in order to install these:

curl-devel
freetype-devel
httpd
httpd-devel
libc-client
libc-client-devel
libjpeg-devel
libmcrypt-devel
libpng-devel
libtool-ltdl-devel
libxml2-devel
mysql-devel

Once the dependencies are installed unzip the php source with bzip2 using:

bzip2 -d php-5.3.0.tar.bz2

Next untar the files using:

tar -xvf php-5.3.0.tar

Finally change into the php-5.3 directory with:

cd php-5.3.0

Now you have to configure the installation. You may need to customize some of the settings below, but the PHP build is pretty helpful about telling you what might have gone wrong. Use the following:

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-zlib --with-freetype-dir=/usr --enable-gd-native=ttf --with-ttf --with-curl --with-aspell --enable-mbstring --with-mcrypt=/usr/local --with-mhash=/usr/local --with-libxml-dir=/usr --enable-soap --enable-zip --with-imap --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl

Finally you need to make the installation using:

make
make install

Once PHP is built you have to create the PHP configuration file and adjust the Apache configuration files. First copy the sample php.ini configuration file using:

cp php.ini-production /usr/local/lib/php.ini

You'll probably want to link this file to its default location so you don't lose it:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/php.ini /etc/php.ini

Next, edit the httpd.conf file to include 'index.php' as one of the default indexes using:

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

And alter the line:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var

And make sure the following appears (you may need to add the second line):

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

Now that everything is configured you should be able to restart Apache using:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

Once this is done edit a page called phpinfo.php in the web root using:

vi /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

And include the following lines:

Now browse to the URL of the server to check the PHP configuration (for example http://localhost/phpinfo.php).


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