Jonny.ro

The following are the steps I took to get php5+gd+mysql support (in parallel with the default install of php) working with my Plesk hosted sites on FC2. Hopeful it might help someone else.

mkdir /usr/local/php5libpng
cd /usr/local/php5libpng

yum install zlib-devel

wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc…-config.tar.gz
gunzip libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
tar -xvf libpng-1.2.8-config.tar

(remove extra dir’s created by the unzipping)

./configure ‘–prefix=/usr/local/php5libpng’ ‘–exec-prefix=/usr/local/php5libpng’
make
make install

yum install mysql-devel
yum install libjpeg-devel

mkdir /usr/local/php5
cd /usr/local/php5

yum install libxml2-devel

yum install curl-devel

wget http://uk2.php.net/get/php-5.1.2.tar…php.net/mirror
gunzip php-5.1.2.tar.gz
tar -xvf php-5.1.2.tar

(remove extra dir’s created by the unzipping)

./configure ‘–host=i386-redhat-linux’ ‘–build=i386-redhat-linux’ ‘–target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu’ ‘–prefix=/usr/local/php5′ ‘–exec-prefix=/usr/local/php5′ ‘–program-suffix=5′ ‘–enable-force-cgi-redirect’ ‘–enable-discard-path’ ‘–enable-exif’ ‘–enable-ftp’ ‘–with-curl’ ‘–with-bz2′ ‘–enable-memory-limit’ ‘–enable-inline-optimization’ ‘–with-openssl’ ‘–with-png’ ‘–with-regex=system’ ‘–with-xml’ ‘–with-zlib’ ‘–enable-sockets’ ‘–enable-mbstring=shared’ ‘–enable-mbstr-enc-trans’ ‘–with-zlib’ ‘–with-png-dir=/usr/local/php5libpng’ ‘–with-gd’ ‘–with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/php5libjpeg’ ‘–enable-gd-native-ttf’ ‘–with-mysql’

make
make install

Create the file /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/conf/vhost.conf with the following in it for each site:

ScriptAlias /php5-cgi-custom /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
Action application/x-httpd-php5-custom “/php5-cgi-custom/php5″

Run: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –reconfigure-vhost –vhost-name=example.com

Create a .htaccess file with the following in the directories that need to be run by php5:

AddType application/x-httpd-php5-custom .php

Also don’t forget about short_open_tag ( <? vs <?php ). You may also need to add this to your  .htaccess file:

php_flag short_open_tag On

For each of the sites go to the base httpdocs directory (after ssh’ing in as the site user, not root): /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/ and run cp /usr/local/php5/bin/php5 ./php5

Then chmod “php5” to 755 (php5 needs to be copied and run locally, since otherwise you get issues with suexec. If you have problems run cat /var/log/httpd/suexec_log and check any errors.

PHP5 should now work.