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Compiling and Installing the Software

After you've successfully downloaded all the sources, the next step is to configure, compile, and install the different packages. The next sections show you how.

Step 1Unpacking the Sources

Unpack all the sources to a temporary area on your system (I'll be using /tmp/sources/).

$ cd /tmp/sources/ 
$ tar -xzvf libxml2-2.4.9.tar.gz 
$ tar -xzvf expat-1.95.2.tar.gz 
$ tar -xzvf Sablot-0.71.tar.gz 
$ tar -xzvf zlib-1.1.3.tar.gz 
$ tar -xzvf apache_1.3.20.tar.gz 
$ tar -xzvf php-4.1.1.tar.gz 

You should end up with a directory structure that looks something like this:

$ ls -l /tmp/sources/ 
drwxrwxrwx    5 root     root         4096 Feb  4 15:51 Sablot-0.71 
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root         4096 Feb  4 16:22 apache_1.3.20 
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Feb  4 15:26 expat-1.95.2 
drwxrwxrwx   11 root     root         4096 Feb  4 15:13 libxml2-2.4.9 
drwxrwxr-x   16 root     root         4096 Feb  4 16:13 php-4.1.1 
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Feb  4 15:15 zlib-1.1.3 

Step 2Adding the External Libraries

Next, configure, build, and install the external libraries required by PHP. Here's how:

Configure, build, and install expat.

$ cd expat-1.95.2 
$ ./configure 
$ make 
$ make install 

Unless you specified a different directory, the expat library should get installed to /usr/local/lib/. ( You can specify a different directory by adding the --prefix to the configure script.)

Run the library linker ldconfig to tell the system about the newly installed library.

$ /sbin/ldconfig 

Configure, build, and install zlib.

$ cd ../zlib-1.1.3 
$ ./configure 
$ make 
$ make install 

Unless you specified a different directory, the zlib library should get installed to /usr/local/lib/. (You can specify a different directory by adding the --prefix to the configure script.)

Run the library linker ldconfig to tell the system about the newly installed library.

$ /sbin/ldconfig 

Configure, build, and install libxml.

$ cd ../libxml2-2.4.9 
$ ./configure 
$ make 
$ make install 

Unless you specified a different directory, the libxml library should get installed to /usr/local/lib/. (You can specify a different directory by adding the --prefix to the configure script.)

Run the library linker ldconfig to tell the system about the newly installed library.

$ /sbin/ldconfig 

Configure, build, and install Sablotron.

$ cd ../Sablot-0.71 
$ ./configure 
$ make 
$ make install 

Unless you specified a different directory, the Sablotron library should get installed to /usr/local/lib. (You can specify a different directory by adding the --prefix to the configure script.)

Run the library linker ldconfig to tell the system about the newly installed library.

$ /sbin/ldconfig 

Step 3Adding PHP

After all the external libraries have been built and installed, it's time to configure, build, and install PHP. Here's how (do one of the following):

If you want to compile PHP as a module into the Apache web server, you need to first configure it appropriately. To do this, first change into the Apache directory and run Apache's configuration script.

$ cd ../apache_1.3.20 
$ ./configure 

This is a necessary precondition to compiling PHP as an Apache module because it tells PHP where to find Apache's header files.

Now, move back to the PHP directory, and configure PHP with support for all required XML extensions.

$ cd ../php-4.1.1 
$ ./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.20 --enable-track-vars--with-mysql --with-dom 
--enable-sockets --enable-wddx --with-xmlrpc--enable-xslt --with-xslt-sablot 
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib/ 
$ make 
$ make install 

You should now have a PHP module suitable for use with the Apache web server. This module should have been copied automatically into the Apache source tree.

If you want to compile a standalone PHP binary, you don't need to bring Apache into the picture at all. Simply change into your PHP directory and run the configure script with the following options:

$ cd ../php-4.1.1 
$ ./configure --enable-track-vars --with-mysql --with-dom --enable-sockets--enable-wddx 
--with-xmlrpc --enable-xslt --with-xslt-sablot--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib/ 
$ make 
$ make install 

You should now have a PHP binary installed to /usr/local/bin/, which can be used to execute any PHP script from the command line. Skip the following steps and proceed directly to the section titled "Testing the Software" to verify that your PHP build has support for all the required extensions.

Step 4Adding Apache

If you decided to compile PHP as an Apache module, the next step is to compile and install Apache. Move back into the Apache directory, configure Apache to use the PHP module created in the first choice of "Step 3Adding PHP," and build and install it.

$ cd ../apache_1.3.20 
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache--activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a 
$ make 
$ make install 

Step 5Configuring Apache to Work with PHP

After Apache has been installed, open up Apache's configuration file, httpd.conf, in your favorite text editor, and add the following lines to it so that Apache knows how to handle files with the .php extension:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php 
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps 
DirectoryIndex index.php indexl 

Step 6Starting Apache

Start the Apache web server via the included apachectl script.

$ /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start 

A Note for Windows Users

The preceding sections document the process of recompiling PHP with XML support on Linux and other UNIX variants. If you're using Windows, most of what you've just read is irrelevant to you. This is because Windows users get a pre-built PHP binary, which already includes support for most common extensions, and they need only to activate these extensions via the Windows php.ini configuration file.

The extensions that need to be activated in the php.ini configuration file (look in the section titled "Dynamic Extensions") are the following:

php_domxml.dll

php_xslt.dll

php_sockets.dll

You can activate these extensions by removing the semicolon (;) at the beginning of the corresponding line in php.ini. Remember to restart the web server for your changes to take effect.

Note that the Windows versions of PHP 4.1.1 and 4.2.0 include built-in support for WDDX, but no support for the XML-RPC extension.

For detailed instructions on getting PHP and Apache to talk nicely to each other on the Windows platform, refer to the installation instructions that ship with the Windows version of PHP, or visit the web page at http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.php.