Installing PHP in Apache

Can be downloaded of http://www.php.net/downloads.php being the version necessary to the date of this manual for comaptibility with GOsa, the 4.3.XX, since versions 5.0.XX are not supported yet. We will download and decompress in/usr/src.

In order to be able to compile the necessary modules, we need the developer libraries of servers section 5, in addition to same that openLDAP2.2.1 and the Apache3.3.1, we will need some library more:

libbz2: We can download it of http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/ as module of compression BZ2.
e2fsprogs: For access to the file system, can be downloaded of http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net
expat: Download from http://expat.sourceforge.net/, A XML parser.
zziplib: Download from http://zziplib.sourceforge.net/, to access to ZIP archives.
zlib: Download from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ for GZIP compression.
file: Download from http://www.darwinsys.com/freeware/file.html to get control of archives.
sed: Download from http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/sed.html, one of the most powerful tools for text handling.
libcurl: Powerful tool to handle remote archives, download from http://curl.haxx.se/.
gettext: GNU Tool for support of several languages, download from http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html.
libgd: For the manipulation and creation of images, download from: http://www.boutell.com/gd.
libjpeg: Manipulation of JPEG images, download from http://www.ijg.org/.
libpng: Manipulation of PNG images, donwload from http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html.
mcal: Library for access to remote Calendars, download from http://mcal.chek.com/.
libmysql: Support of most famous database, is essential for php, download from http://www.mysql.com/

A recommended configuration will be like this:

Apache2

-prefix=/usr -with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2
-with-config-file-path=/etc/php4/apache2

Options of compilation

-enable-memory-limit	# Compiled with memory limit
-disable-debug	# To compile without debug symbols
-disable-static	# Without static libraries
-with-pic	# To use PIC and nonPIC objects
-with-layout=GNU
-enable-sysvsem	# sysvmsg Support
-enable-sysvshm	# sysvshm Support
-enable-sysvmsg	# System V shared memory support
-disable-rpath	# Disable to be able to pass routes to extra librerias to the binary
-without-mm	# To disable memoty sessions support

Session

-enable-track-vars
-enable-trans-sid

Support

-enable-sockets	# sockets support
-with-mime-magic=/usr/share/misc/file/magic.mime
-with-exec-dir=/usr/lib/php4/libexec

pear

-with-pear=/usr/share/php

# Where we are going to install PEAR

functions

-enable-ctype	# Control of characters functions support
-with-iconv	iconv functions support
-with-bz2	BZ2 Compression support
-with-regex=php	Type of library of regular expressions
-enable-calendar	Calendar conversion functions
-enable-bcmath	Mathematics of arbitrary precision support
-with-db4	DBA: Berkeley DB version 4 support
-enable-exif	exif functions support, for JPG and TIFF metadata reading
-enable-ftp	FTP functions support
-with-gettext	Localization support
-enable-mbstring
-with-pcre-regex=/usr
-enable-shmop	shared memory functions
-disable-xml -with-expat-dir=/usr	use expat xml instead of which comes with php
-with-xmlrpc
-with-zlib
-with-zlib-dir=/usr
-with-imap=shared,/usr	imap generic support
-with-kerberos=/usr	Imap with Kerberos authentication
-with-imap-ssl	Imap with SSL secure access
-with-openssl=/usr
-with-zip=/usr
-enable-dbx	Layer of abstraction with databases

external modules

-with-curl=shared,/usr	remote Handling of archives
-with-dom=shared,/usr -with-dom-xslt=shared,/usr -with-dom-exslt=shared,/usr	With xmlrpc already integrated
-with-gd=shared,/usr -enable-gd-native-ttf	Images handling support
-with-jpeg-dir=shared,/usr	GD Support for JPEG
-with-png-dir=shared,/usr	GD Support for png
-with-ldap=shared,/usr	Support for ldap
-with-mcal=shared,/usr	Support of calendars
-with-mhash=shared,/usr	Module for several key generation algorithms
-with-mysql=shared,/usr	Support of Mysql database

Then do:
#make && make install

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