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

I do this:

# wget wget http://in1.php.net/distributions/php-5.3.29.tar.bz2
# tar -xvf php-5.3.29.tar.bz2
# cd php-5.3.29
# ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs
# make
# sudo make install
# sudo cp php.ini-development /usr/local/lib/php.ini.

Then change php.ini. Change the option,

short_open_tag = Off

to

short_open_tag = On

Check and modify the httpd.conf module php5:

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so

Add in httpd.conf:

    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php

Restart apache2, default install in: /usr/local/apache2

# sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

Check phpinfo is now read in your Apache installation like:

http://localhost