I know this have been written about a billion times, now it’s 1 billion + 1.  This is more for a ref for me…

Grab latest apache/php.

1).  Compile apache

./configure –prefix=/usr/local/apache2 –enable-so –with-ssl –with-zlib

make; make install

Start apache and then stop apache.  Make sure its’ all golden..

2) php time

‘./configure’ ‘–prefix=/usr/local/php5’ ‘–with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs’ ‘–with-mysql’ ‘–with-pear’ ‘–with-openssl’ ‘–with-xml’ ‘–enable-bcmath’ ‘–enable-calendar’ ‘–with-curl’ ‘–enable-ftp’ ‘–with-gd’ ‘–enable-sockets’ ‘–enable-track-vars’ ‘–enable-versioning’ ‘–with-zlib’ ‘–enable-magic-quotes’ ‘–with-freetype’ ‘–enable-mbstring’ ‘–with-db4=/usr’ ‘–with-ldap=/usr’ ‘–with-libxml-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-snmp=/usr’ ‘–enable-soap’ ‘–enable-zip’ ‘–with-imap-ssl=/usr’ ‘–with-imap’ ‘–with-kerberos''--with-gettext=shared‘

Adding gettext, it’s needed for phpldapadmin.

Linux users that compile PHP --with-gettext=shared should include
extension=gettext.so

in your /etc/php.ini

Was interesting with imap and kerberos, as the linkers were getting confused between the 32bit and x64 libs which was causing issues with the libc-client.a lib.  Ended up installing the libc-client.a x64 version then just symlinking to the /usr/lib

ln -s /usr/lib64/libc-client.a /usr/lib/

After that it may error out one more time on the ./configure, just install pam-devel with that it will also install a bunch of more *devel stuff, do it.  Configure should finally finish..

make; make test

(takes a while…make test not necessary)

make install

 

3).. If you forget something in PHP and need to re-compile.   You re-run ;   make clean; re-run ./configure with all w/ options; make; make install.    Then just restart apache that should enable whatever you just compile in.

4).  cp php.ini-development  /usr/local/lib/php.ini

5).  vi httpd.conf  add

6). restart apache. that’s it. test via phpinfo.php

phpinfo.php
<?php
phpinfo();
?>