Links: Homepage | Downloads
Dependencies: Apache | LibJPEG | LibPNG | LibMCrypt | FreeType
Version: 5.5.3
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language that is especially suited to web development.
Get the Code
Switch to /usr/local/src and download the source package.
cd /usr/local/src
curl --location --output php-VERSION.tar.gz http://ca.php.net/get/php-VERSION.tar.gz/from/this/mirror
Extract the archive and move into the folder.
tar -xzvf php-VERSION.tar.gz
cd php-VERSION
Compile and Install
Configure, compile and install into /usr/local/php-VERSION.
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/php-VERSION \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php-VERSION/etc \
--enable-bcmath \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-zip \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
--with-bz2 \
--with-curl \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/freetype \
--with-gd \
--with-imap-ssl \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/libjpeg \
--with-mcrypt=/usr/local/libmcrypt \
--with-mysql=mysqlnd \
--with-mysqli=mysqlnd \
--with-pear \
--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd \
--with-pgsql \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local/libpng \
--with-openssl \
--with-xmlrpc \
--with-xsl \
--with-zlib
make
make install
Create a symbolic link that points /usr/local/php to /usr/local/php-VERSION.
ln -s php-VERSION /usr/local/php
PHP Configuration
Copy a PHP configuration template to the target folder.
cp php.ini-development /usr/local/php/etc/php.ini
You can configure any of the php.ini directives by editing this file.
Apache Configuration
Edit Apache's configuration file.
nano /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
Copy and paste the following text at the end of the aforementioned file.
<IfModule mime_module>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
</IfModule>
Shell
Execute the following lines to update your Bash startup script.
echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/php/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export MANPATH=/usr/local/php/man:$MANPATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
Load the new shell configurations.
source ~/.bash_profile
Restart the Web Server
The web server must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
sudo /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl -k restart
Verify the Installation
To verify that you have correctly installed PHP, execute the following command. It should display the version number along with other information.
php --version