Compile and installing php4

In this section we are going to download, configure, compile and install php4 as DSO, so we can use it with the apache server. We can download the last version from http://www.php.net.

• Configuration We start, as always, with the configure command from the source php directory:

  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php-4.2.3 --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
  --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache/conf/ --with-xml
  

  If we want to add support for MySQL or Postgres, or both of them we have to add the lines:

  --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/ --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql/
  

  This will prepare the php source to install php as a DSO. So when the configure command ended, we have to start the compilation:

  make
  make install
  cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/apache/conf/php.ini
  

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  This will only generate the apache module of php4 as DSO, but this process will not generate a php binary. If we want to generate a php binary we have to reconfigure the php sources, deleting any reference to apache:

  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php-4.2.3 --with-xml
  

  This will prepare the php source to install php. So when the configure command ended, we have to start the compilation:

  make
  make install
  

  By this way we will generate a php binary in the directory /usr/local/php-4.2.3/bin/

  Now we only have to add the following line to the httpd.conf of apache configuration file (only if they don't exists yet):

  LoadModule php4_module        libexec/libphp4.so
  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html
  

  With the second line (AddType line) we say that the pages with .html suffix are going to be passed through the php module.