Anyone have any experience installing and configuring php?

I need to tweak my configuration slightly by adding support for a couple of new libraries. The library files have all been installed, and I now need to recompile php.

Taking a look at the documentation for this - http://www.php.net/...tall.apache.php - it appears that since php is already installed, all I need to do is repeat steps 10, 11, and 12 - basically just run the new configuration command followed by "make" and "make install".

The problem I'm having is that I can't figure out which directory I need to be in to do that. All of the instructions I've found are based on the assumption that I've been installing php from scratch and that I will have extracted all the files into a source directory somewhere. But I can't find any directory that will allow me to run the configure command. Does that mean I need to install the source files again and start from scratch? I'm running php as an apache module under debian linux.

Thank you very much for any ideas or suggestions.

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Hi,

If PHP is compiled as a module and not statically, then all you need to do is download php, untar it, and run something like:

./configure \
--with-apxs=/path/to/your/apache/bin/apxs \
--with-mysql \
... your other options
make
make install

Do a './configure --help' for a full list of possible options.

The 'apxs' program comes with apache and is used for building and installing apache modules.

Cheers,

Alex
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Thanks for the reply, Alex. Which directory should I be doing this in?

If it makes a difference, "whereis php" currently outputs: /etc/php /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/lib/php

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Fractured Atlas :: Liberate the Artist
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Which ever directory the "configure" script is in....

That location will be wherever you untar'd php originally.

Thanks. So I take it it all ends up in the right place regardless of where I get started with the untarring?

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Fractured Atlas :: Liberate the Artist
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Yes, "make install" will put everything in the right place, unless you used any special switches when compiling first time which installed into non-standard directories.

Cool - thanks for your help.

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Fractured Atlas :: Liberate the Artist
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