Install PHP 5.3.0 on CentOS 5 as CGI along side PHP 5.2.9
Well, turns out I’d rather play with just PHP 5.3 RC4 for now. Here is my guide to installing it onto my CentOS 5 64-bit VPS from 1&1.
Update: PHP 5.3.0 has been released and there are some changes.
It went pretty smoothly. Here is the guide, minus the hours of trial and error, of course:
First, install anything you may need to compile with.
yum install gcc gcc-c++.x86_64
yum install \
libicu-devel.x86_64 \
libxml2-devel.x86_64 \
mysql-devel.x86_64 \
libpng-devel.x86_64 \
libjpeg-devel.x86_64 \
curl-devel.x86_64 \
bzip2-devel.x86_64 \
gettext-devel.x86_64 \
gmp-devel.x86_64 \
pcre-devel.x86_64 \
freetype-devel.x86_64 \
gd-devel.x86_64 \
aspell-devel.x86_64
NOTE: You can copy that entire block and paste it, the backslash (\) will carry the command over to the next line automatically.
Next, make the folders for the configs and binaries.
mkdir /usr/local/php53 /etc/php53 /etc/php53.d
Begin, by downloading and extracting the latest snapshot. Don’t use the file name I have below, get it fresh from snaps.php.net.
cd ~
wget http://us2.php.net/get/php-5.3.0.tar.bz2/from/us.php.net/mirror
tar xjf php-5.3.0.tar.bz2
cd php-5.3.0.tar.bz2
# gz: tar xzf php-5.3.0.tar.gz
# bz2: tar xfj php-5.3.0.tar.bz2
# zip: tar xfZ php-5.3.0.zip
Now, set up all of your configuration options. You may want to adjust these. To see what they mean, type: ./configure --help
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/php53 \
--with-libdir=lib64 \
--with-config-file-path=/etc/php53 \
--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php53.d \
--with-bz2 \
--with-curl \
--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr \
--with-png-dir=/usr \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--without-gdbm \
--with-gettext \
--with-gmp \
--with-iconv \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
--with-openssl \
--with-png-dir=/usr \
--with-pspell \
--with-libexpat-dir=/usr \
--with-pcre-regex=/usr \
--with-zlib \
--with-layout=GNU \
--enable-exif \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-magic-quotes \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-sysvsem \
--enable-sysvshm \
--enable-sysvmsg \
--enable-wddx \
--with-kerberos \
--enable-ucd-snmp-hack \
--enable-shmop \
--enable-calendar \
--with-mysql=mysqlnd \
--with-mysqli=mysqlnd \
--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd \
--with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock \
--with-libxml-dir=/usr \
--without-mysql \
--with-gd=/usr
Finally, compile and install!
gmake
gmake install
Lastly, you’ll likely want to use it in Apache… Here is how I set up my domain to use PHP 5.3:
<VirtualHost 74.208.46.111:80>
ServerName php53.mainelan.com:80
ServerAlias www.php53.mainelan.com
UseCanonicalName On
ServerAdmin "webmaster@mainelan.net"
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/php53.mainelan.com/httpdocs
# PHP 5.3
ScriptAlias /php53-cgi /usr/local/php53/bin/php-cgi
Action application/x-http-php53 /php53-cgi
AddHandler application/x-http-php53 .php
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Thanks very much Josh. Appreciate your time on the posts.
nice job Josh. so, actually our company currently also has same server as you do in 1and1 VPS. But I got problem for install the newest version of apache server and Openssl. Because I was trying to update with Yum, but it doesn’t give me the newest version online. Have you trying to install that before?
thank you
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