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Getting Up and Running

For your quick install use only –with-mysql and –with-apxs2. If you get any error messages telling

you something couldn’t be found, provide the full path to the folder in which the appropriate ﬁles can be

found. For example, our conﬁgure command found the path to mysql. If it hadn’t we would have

provided the full path to mysql as part of the command to run the conﬁgure script.

Other Conﬁgure Options

There are many more command line arguments that you can use as well. For example, type in the

command

./configure --help

and you’ll see the complete range of arguments that you can use, along with their descriptions.

Performing the QUICK INSTALL (DSO)

The quick installation in the PHP INSTALL text ﬁle recommends starting with just two commands:

–with-mysql and –with-apxs. Run the conﬁgure script like this for quick installation:

./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs2

You need to use –with-apxs2 rather than –with-apxs because you’re running a later version of

Apache. The script actually came back and informed me of this when it ran, which was very helpful. If

you read through the commands that appear in your terminal as the script runs, you’ll see that it does

quite a few such checks as it gets ready for the make command.

After the conﬁgure script has run, you need to enter two more commands:

make

make install

Install makes a directory in /user/local/lib named php where it places a copy of PEAR (php Extension

Add-on Repository) and the php.ini ﬁle. The Location bar on the screen in Figure 1-8 shows that the

main panel’s contents are in the php directory.

Running Additional Conﬁgure Options

You may use some of the other options of the conﬁgure script to compile PHP5 with

enable_track_vars, with-gd, and with_pgsql. But if you’d like to use the conﬁgure options for gd

(the graphics module) and pgsql (the database) you must make sure these programs are also loaded for

everything to work properly, and you must provide the full path to the installations as required.

Running as a CGI

PHP5 is compiled as a module if you used the conﬁgure script with the –with-apache or

—with-apxs2 options. It’s compiled as a CGI executable binary ﬁle if you used the conﬁgure script

without any reference to Apache or apxs. And if you compiled PHP5 as a CGI, then when you installed

PHP5, it most likely put the actual binary in /usr/local/bin. Copy the CGI executable binary to your

cgi-bin directory using:

cp /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/php.cgi

This enables Apache users to run different PHP-enabled pages under different user-ids. However, CERT

advisory CA-96.11 recommends against placing any interpreters (such as PHP5) into cgi-bin because