How to update to php 5

To update to php5, the build script will still work. All that you need to do is swap out the version, compile normally and make a few modifications to your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file.

1) download the php-5.2.2.tar.gz from php.net into your customapache directory:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/customapache
wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/customapache/php-5.2.2.tar.gz

2) change your build script for the new version:

nano build
change: PHP_VER=4.4.4
to: PHP_VER=5.2.2

3) build php normally:

./build clean
./build php n
If you're using apache 2.x, use

./build clean
./build php_ap2 n
instead.

4) edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Remove any referce of:

LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so

and make sure they're replaced with:

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so

Remove any reference of:

AddModule mod_php4.c
and replace with:

AddModule mod_php5.c


5) find this piece of code:


DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php index.php4 index.php3 index.phtml index.cgi


replace with:


DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php index.php4 index.php5 index.php3 index.phtml index.cgi


Find this:


AddType application/x-httpd-php .inc .php .php4 .php3 .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

(it might have AddHandler instead of AddType)
replace with:


AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .inc .php .php5 .php4 .php3 .phtml
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Then restart apache.

If you get the following error while compiling php:

checking whether to enable LIBXML support... yes
checking libxml2 install dir... no
checking for xml2-config path...
configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2
installation.

*** There was an error while trying to configure php. Check the configure.php file
Then edit the configure.php file (or configure.php_ap2 if you're using apache 2), and change:

--with-xml \
to:

--disable-libxml \
--disable-dom \
--disable-xml \
--disable-simplexml \
--disable-xmlreader \
--disable-xmlwriter \
or else install the missing rpms/packages for xml. (libxml2-dev and libxml2-utils on debian). Redhats:

yum -y install libxml2-devel libxslt-devel