Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:32:42 +0000 From: Gary Hayers <gary@hayers.org> To: Gareth Bailey <gjbailey@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PHP installation woes Message-ID: <421AEE2A.1010800@hayers.org> In-Reply-To: <48a5f32a050222002754c8da87@mail.gmail.com> References: <48a5f32a050222002754c8da87@mail.gmail.com>
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Gareth Bailey wrote: > Hi there, > > Could someone please give the low down on installing and configuring > php on freebsd? I am running the 4.10 release as our development > server with apache 1.3, php 4 and mysql 4. > > Up until now, the only way i have got php to work is to extract the > php tarball, configure (with the switches below), make and make > install from source. > > ./configure '--with-apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs' '--enable-versioning' > '--with-gd' '--with-mysql' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/bin' > '--with-zlib' '--with-mysql=/usr/local' '--prefix=/usr/local' > '--with-mime-magic=/usr/share/misc/magic.mime' '--enable-sockets' > '--enable-memory-limit' '--disable-all' > > The problem with this method is that it doesn't seem to install module > libaries, and i'm just not convinced that i am going about it > correctly. > > I also at some stage tried installing from ports (/usr/ports/lang/php4) with: > > # make 'insert switches from above here' build > # make 'insert switches from above here' install > > None of the switches were acknowledged, as phpinfo() showed no support > for the switches i required. > > I would really appreciate it if someone could recommend a way to > install php with control over modules that are supported. # cd /usr/ports/lang/php4 && make rmconfig # make # make install This is the way I did it with no problems encountered. HTH Regards, Gary Hayers
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