Compile PHP from source

1) Download the tar ball from http://php.net

2) Untar the tar ball -> tar -xvzf <php-5.2.6.tar>

3) cd php-5.2.6

4)./configure –with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs –with-mysql –with-zlib /there extensions are given to compile PHP with mysql ans zlib support.

5) make

6) makeinstall

After installation restart apache

7)/usr/loca/apache/bin/apachectl restart

To view phpinfo page

create a file in httpd docementroot normally by default is /usr/local/apche/htdocs

vi php.php

<?

phpinfo();

?>

to access phpinfo page go to browser http://localhost/php.php