Danny Bembibre (dbembibre) Crawlability Inc.

Proceed at yourn risk, if you brake your server this won't be my problem .

I hate await when a new version of php is released that a packager built it. I prefer has the liberty of compile at any moment.

This procedure is tested in a Plesk 8.1 and in Plesk 8.2

Review the rpms installed:

Code:

[daniel@srv01 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep php
php-5.2.3-1.el4.art
php-common-5.2.3-1.el4.art
php-mysql-5.2.3-1.el4.art
php-gd-5.2.3-1.el4.art
php-xml-5.2.3-1.el4.art

Delete all php extension packages except the main packages, because the panel use it for allow give php support when new domain is configured.

Code:

rpm -e --nodeps php-mysql-5.2.3-1.el4.art php-gd-5.2.3-1.el4.art php-xml-5.2.3-1.el4.art

Download php

Code:

[daniel@srv01 ~]$ tar xzf php-5.2.4.tar.bz2
[daniel@srv01 ~]$ cd  php-5.2.4

Code:

./configure --host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu \
  --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc \
  --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var \ 
  --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --cache-file=../config.cache \
  --with-config-file-path=/etc --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d --enable-force-cgi-redirect --disable-debug \ 
   --disable-rpath --enable-inline-optimization --with-bz2 --with-db4=/usr --with-curl \
  --with-exec-dir=/usr/bin --with-freetype-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-gd --enable-gd-native-ttf \
  --without-gdbm --with-gettext --with-ncurses --with-gmp --with-iconv --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-openssl \ 
   --with-pspell --with-regex=system   \
    --with-xmlrpc=shared --with-zlib --with-layout=GNU \
  --enable-bcmath --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-magic-quotes --enable-sockets --enable-sysvsem \
  --enable-sysvshm --enable-wddx --with-pear=/usr/share/pear \ 
  --with-ldap=shared --with-mhash=shared --with-mcrypt=shared   \
  --enable-bcmath --enable-shmop --enable-calendar  \
  --enable-mbstring=shared --enable-mbregex \
  --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --without-sqlite --without-pgsql \ 
  --with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config   \
  --with-kerberos --with-imap --with-imap-ssl=/usr/include/openssl \
  --enable-inline-optimization --disable-debug --disable-ipv6

Note: I use the new mysqli extension instead of old mysql extension, if you use mysqli need change in vBulletin config file:

Code:

//      ****** DATABASE TYPE ******
//      This is the type of the database server on which your vBulletin database will be located.
//      Valid options are mysql and mysqli.  Try to use mysqli if you are using PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1+
 
$config['Database']['dbtype'] = 'mysqli';

If the configure show a error read the error and install the related devel package.

Code:

make && make install

Make install add to the end of httpd.conf the following line "LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so" delete it

Update the following files as follows
/etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf

Code:

 
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
 
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php
 
DirectoryIndex index.php
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

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