How to install/compile Apache with PHP via source installation

How to install/compile Apache with PHP via source installation?

If you like to install PHP with Apache via source installation, kindly follow the steps below.

This PHP installation is compiles with major modules like GD, MCrypt, xml,etc

1.wget http://bg.php.net/distributions/php-5.3.1.tar.bz2

2.cd php-5.3.1.tar.bz2

3.bunzip2  php-5.3.1.tar.bz2

4.tar -xvf php-5.3.1.tar

or simply do tar jxf php-5.3.1.tar.bz2

5.cd php-5.3.1

6. ./configure –with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs –with-mysql    –prefix=/usr/local/apache2/php

{This is to compile Apache with PHP alone}

./configure –with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs –prefix=/usr/local/apache2/php –with-gd[=DIR] –with-freetype-dir[=DIR]

–enable-zip

–with-xsl[=DIR]

–enable-ftp

–enable-mbstring

–with-mcrypt[=DIR]

(To know more ./configure –help)

7.make (if u do it again install do a “make clean”)

8.make test

9.make install

10.If file /usr/local/apache/modules/libphp5.so does not exist or is an older version, type this (change this to libphp4.so for PHP 4):

    cp -p .libs/libphp5.so /usr/local/apache/modules

11.In httpd.conf

# Use for PHP 5.x:

#Add at the end of the file

#LoadModule php5_module        modules/libphp5.so

AddHandler php5-script php 

AddType application/x-httpd-php-source phps

# Add index.php to your DirectoryIndex line:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

AddType text/html       php

12.cd /usr/local/apache2/htdocs

13.vim index.php

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14./usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl restart

15.lynx www.hemanth.com

16.You should see the phpinfo page