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Apache/SSL/PHP shared object install

These notes will walk you through downloading, compiling and installing Apache, mod_ssl, and PHP from source on an Asparagus server.

Apache/SSL/PHP DSO install

Compiling Apache/mod_ssl/PHP from source for Asparagus server --
with PHP as dynamic shared object.

Installing PHP as a DSO means that when you want to update/reconfigure either Apache or PHP, you don't need to build both at the same time. It makes them somewhat independent of one another, a good thing in most situations. For absolute best performance, however, you might want to build PHP as a static library instead.

  1. Download Apache, mod_ssl, mm, and PHP sources:
    cd /tmp
    wget http://httpd.apache.org/dist/httpd/apache_1.3.28.tar.gz
    wget http://www.modssl.org/source/mod_ssl-2.8.15-1.3.28.tar.gz
    wget http://us4.php.net/get/php-4.3.3.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror
    md5sum
    		 source tarball
    		 
    2cdece7b4881d541e072de6a2b65db77
    		 
    apache_1.3.28.tar.gz
    		 
    0f37d6efd51128f696000d73624f5aff
    		 
    mod_ssl-2.8.15-1.3.28.tar.gz
    		 
    1171d96104e2ff2cff9e19789a4a1536
    		 
    php-4.3.3.tar.bz2

  2. Unpack source in /usr/local/src:
    cd /usr/local/src
    tar xzvf /tmp/apache_1.3.28.tar.gz
    tar xzvf /tmp/mod_ssl-2.8.15-1.3.28.tar.gz
    tar xjvf /tmp/php-4.3.3.tar.bz2
  3. Confiugre and install mod_ssl (which patches the Apache source tree):
    cd ../mod_ssl-2.8.15-1.3.28
    ./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.28
  4. Configure and install Apache:
    cd ../apache_1.3.28
    SSL_BASE=SYSTEM EAPI_MM=SYSTEM ./configure --enable-module=ssl \
      --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-module=headers \
      --enable-module=rewrite --enable-module=so \
      --enable-module=status
    make
    make certificate TYPE=custom
    make install
    cd /etc
    ln -s /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf httpd.conf
    cd /usr/local/sbin
    ln -s /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl apachectl
    ln -s /usr/local/apache/bin/ab ab
    nano -w /etc/httpd.conf
  5. Configure and install php:
    cd /usr/local/src/php-4.3.3
    ./configure \
      --with-mysql --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
      --with-gettext --with-readline --with-xml \
      --enable-track-vars --enable-exif --enable-ftp \
      --with-xmlrpc --with-imap=/usr/local/src/imap-2002d \
      --with-imap-ssl=/usr \
      --with-gd --with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib --with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib \
      --with-openssl --with-mime-magic --with-mcrypt=/usr/local
    make

    Add the following to /etc/httpd.conf:
      AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
      LoadModule php4_module        libexec/libphp4.so

    make install
    cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/lib/php.ini

By Chris Snyder on September 5, 2003 at 3:48pm

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