Note:

 If Apache's apxs tool is not installed yet, the tool has to be installed 

before compiling PHP. In SuSE Linux, this package is called

 apache devel

.

6. Compiling PHP

After configuring the source files, the compile process is started using the 

make 

command. We piped the output to a log file in order to check for failure 

afterwards:

bash$ make > make.out

7. Installing PHP

Once PHP has compiled successfully, it can be installed as the root user:

bash$ su root

Password>

bash$ make install

8. Configuring Apache

As Apache already was configured for the PHP used in our case, only some 

changes have to be made. As part of the installation process PHP 

automatically modifies Apache's configuration file /etc/httpd/httpd.conf by 

inserting two lines. It has to be checked if the installer placed this two lines in 

the right section, and if the provided path to the modules matches the path 

definition of the other modules in this section (see Example 4 3).

Example 4 3   Correct section for the libphp4.so and mod_php4.c

# Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support

# Example:

# LoadModule foo_module libexec/mod_foo.so

loadModule ...

.

.

loadModule php4_module        /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so

.

.

#  Reconstruction of the complete module list from all available modules

#  (static and shared ones) to achieve correct module execution order.

#  [WHENEVER YOU CHANGE THE LOADMODULE SECTION ABOVE UPDATE THIS, TOO]

ClearModuleList

.

.

AddModule mod_php4.c

9. Checking for php.ini.

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