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<chapter id="faq.installation">
<title>PHP installation</title>
<titleabbrev>How to install PHP on your machine</titleabbrev>
<para>
This section holds common questions about the way to install
PHP. PHP is available for almost any OS (except may be for
MacOS before OSX), and almost any web server.
</para>
<para>
To install PHP, follow the instructions in the
<ulink url="&faqurl.file.installation;">INSTALLATION</ulink>
file located in the distribution. Windows 95 and NT users should also read the
<ulink url="&faqurl.file.readmewin;">README.WIN32</ulink>
file. There are also some helpful hints for Windows users
<ulink url="&faqurl.php.manual.config.nt;">here</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
If you are trying to install PHP for use with Netscape's web server on
Unix see: <ulink url="faqurl.install">&faqurl.install;</ulink>
</para>
<qandaset>
<qandaentry id="faq.installation.php3ini">
<question>
<para>
Where should my php3.ini file be located?
</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>
By default on UNIX it should be in <filename>/usr/local/lib</filename>.
Most people will want to change this at compile-time with the
<link
linkend="install.configure.with-config-file-path">--with-config-file-path</link>
flag. You would, for example, set it to something like:
<programlisting>
--with-config-file-path=/etc
</programlisting>
And then you would copy <filename>php3.ini-dist</filename> from
the distribution to <filename>/etc/php3.ini</filename> and
edit it to make any local changes you want.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry id="faq.installation.processing">
<question>
<para>
I installed PHP using RPMS, but Apache isn't processing the
PHP pages! What's going on here?
</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>
Assuming you installed both Apache and PHP from RPM packages,
you need to uncomment or add some or all of the following lines
in your http.conf file:
<programlisting>
# Extra Modules
AddModule mod_php.c
AddModule mod_php3.c
AddModule mod_perl.c
# Extra Modules
LoadModule php_module modules/mod_php.so
LoadModule php3_module modules/libphp3.so /* for PHP 3 */
LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so /* for PHP 4 */
LoadModule perl_module modules/libperl.so
</programlisting>
And add:
<programlisting>
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 /* for PHP 3 */
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php /* for PHP 4 */
</programlisting>
... to the global properties, or to the properties of the
VirtualDomain you want to have PHP support added to.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry id="faq.installation.compile">
<question>
<para>
I installed PHP using RPMS, but it doesn't compile with the database
support I need! What's going on here?
</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>
Due to the way PHP is currently built, it is not easy to build a
complete flexible PHP RPM. This issue will be addressed in PHP 4.
For PHP, we currently suggest you use the mechanism described in the
INSTALL.REDHAT file in the PHP distribution. If you insist on using
an RPM version of PHP, read on...
</para>
<para>
Currently the RPM packagers are setting up the RPMS to install
without database support to simplify installations <emphasis>and</emphasis>
because RPMS use /usr/ instead of the standard /usr/local/ directory for
files. You need to tell the RPM spec file which databases to support
and the location of the top-level of your database server.
</para>
<para>
This example will explain the process of adding support for the
popular MySQL database server, using the mod installation for Apache.
</para>
<para>
Of course all of this information can be adjusted for any database
server that PHP supports. We will assume you installed MySQL and Apache
completely with RPMS for this example as well.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
First remove mod_php3 :
<programlisting>
rpm -e mod_php3
</programlisting>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Then get the source rpm and INSTALL it, NOT --rebuild
<programlisting>
rpm -Uvh mod_php3-3.0.5-2.src.rpm
</programlisting>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Then edit the <filename>/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/mod_php3.spec</filename>
file
</para>
<para>
In the %build section add the database support you want, and the path.
</para>
<para>
For MySQL you would add
<programlisting>
--with-mysql=/usr \
</programlisting>
The %build section will look something like this:
<programlisting>
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/lib \
--enable-debug=no \
--enable-safe-mode \
--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin \
--with-mysql=/usr \
--with-system-regex
</programlisting>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Once this modification is made then build the binary rpm as follows:
<programlisting>
rpm -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/mod_php3.spec
</programlisting>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Then install the rpm
<programlisting>
rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/mod_php3-3.0.5-2.i386.rpm
</programlisting>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
Make sure you restart Apache, and you now have PHP with MySQL support
using RPM's. Note that it is probably much easier to just build
from the distribution tarball of PHP and follow the instructions in
<filename>INSTALL.REDHAT</filename> found in that distribution.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry id="faq.installation.libraries">
<question>
<para>
How do I get these libraries to work?
</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
</qandaset>
</chapter>
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