Installing PHP 5.3.29 from Sources on Ubuntu 14 with Apache 2 Module

Question

I successfully installed PHP 5.3.29 on Ubuntu 14 with Apache 2 separately.

I installed PHP with the following method:

sudo -i
wget http://in1.php.net         


        

Answer 1

This works for me on a scratch Ubuntu 14.04:

Manual installation

Update the systems packages

1. apt-get update

2. apt-get upgrade -y

Install the dependencies and prepare environment

3. apt-get install -y build-essential libxml2-dev apache2 apache2-dev

4. echo "export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc

5. apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-php5 --no-install-recommends

Download PHP 5.3.29

6. apt-get install -y wget && cd /tmp && wget http://php.net/distributions/php-5.3.29.tar.bz2

Unzip and configure apache's module apxs2

7. tar -xvf php-5.3.29.tar.bz2 && cd php-5.3.29 && ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2

Install it

8. make && make install

Check if works

9. service apache2 restart && php -v