PHP installation woes

[Gareth Bailey]

Hi there,

Could someone please give the low down on installing and configuring
php on freebsd? I am running the 4.10 release as our development
server with apache 1.3, php 4 and mysql 4.

Up until now, the only way i have got php to work is to extract the
php tarball, configure (with the switches below), make and make
install from source.

./configure '--with-apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs' '--enable-versioning'
'--with-gd' '--with-mysql' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/bin'
'--with-zlib' '--with-mysql=/usr/local' '--prefix=/usr/local'
'--with-mime-magic=/usr/share/misc/magic.mime' '--enable-sockets'
'--enable-memory-limit' '--disable-all'

The problem with this method is that it doesn't seem to install module
libaries, and i'm just not convinced that i am going about it
correctly.

I also at some stage tried installing from ports (/usr/ports/lang/php4) with:

# make 'insert switches from above here' build
# make 'insert switches from above here' install

None of the switches were acknowledged, as phpinfo() showed no support
for the switches i required.

I would really appreciate it if someone could recommend a way to
install php with control over modules that are supported.

Thanking you in adv,

Gareth

[Gary Hayers]

Gareth Bailey wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Could someone please give the low down on installing and configuring
> php on freebsd? I am running the 4.10 release as our development
> server with apache 1.3, php 4 and mysql 4.
>
> Up until now, the only way i have got php to work is to extract the
> php tarball, configure (with the switches below), make and make
> install from source.
>
> ./configure '--with-apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs' '--enable-versioning'
> '--with-gd' '--with-mysql' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/bin'
> '--with-zlib' '--with-mysql=/usr/local' '--prefix=/usr/local'
> '--with-mime-magic=/usr/share/misc/magic.mime' '--enable-sockets'
> '--enable-memory-limit' '--disable-all'
>
> The problem with this method is that it doesn't seem to install module
> libaries, and i'm just not convinced that i am going about it
> correctly.
>
> I also at some stage tried installing from ports (/usr/ports/lang/php4) with:
>
> # make 'insert switches from above here' build
> # make 'insert switches from above here' install
>
> None of the switches were acknowledged, as phpinfo() showed no support
> for the switches i required.
>
> I would really appreciate it if someone could recommend a way to
> install php with control over modules that are supported.

# cd /usr/ports/lang/php4 && make rmconfig
# make
# make install

This is the way I did it with no problems encountered.

HTH

Regards,

Gary Hayers