【转】How to build and install PHP 5.6.9 from source on Ubuntu 14.04 VPS

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In this tutorial we will show you how to build and install PHP 5.6.9 from source on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.

We all know that PHP-5 is by default available in the Ubuntu repositories. But many times there are situations where  for some crazy reason your application is not able to run on that particular version and you must upgrade it.

There are couple of ways to do that, and time time we will show you know to do that by using the PHP source package.

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UPDATE THE SYSTEM

First thing to do is to log in to your Ubuntu VPS as ROOT via SSH. Once you are in make sure the Ubuntu 14.04 system is fully up-to-date by running the following commands in your terminal:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

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INSTALL BUILD DEPENDENCIES

Next, to avoid compilation errors about missing build dependencies install the following packages:

apt-get install libfcgi-dev libfcgi0ldbl libjpeg62-dbg libmcrypt-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libjpeg-dev \
    libfreetype6-dev libpng12-dev libxpm-dev libxml2-dev libpcre3-dev libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev \
    libjpeg-dev libpng12-dev libxpm-dev libfreetype6-dev libmysqlclient-dev libt1-dev libgd2-xpm-dev \
    libgmp-dev libsasl2-dev libmhash-dev unixodbc-dev freetds-dev libpspell-dev libsnmp-dev libtidy-dev \
    libxslt1-dev libmcrypt-dev libdb5.3-dev 

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DOWNLOAD PHP

Now let’s download the latest PHP 5.6.9 archive from some PHP mirror using the commands below:

PHP_VERSION=5.6.9
wget -O /var/tmp/php-${PHP_VERSION}.tar.bz2 \
    http://bg2.php.net/get/php-${PHP_VERSION}.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror

Once the download of the archive is done extract the PHP source in the /opt/build directory. Since this directory do not exist we will need to create it manually. Type:

mkdir -p /opt/build

and extract the newly downloaded PHP archive:

tar -xvjpf /var/tmp/php-${PHP_VERSION}.tar.bz2 -C /opt/build

and finally enter the directory:

cd /opt/build/php-${PHP_VERSION}

 

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CONFIGURE PHP SOURCES

The configure options depend on your environment. In my case, I want to run PHP as FastCGI i.e PHP-FPM with many useful extensions enabled. You can run ./configure --help to find all available configure options. My configuration looks like the one below, so if you want to use it just copy + paste on your terminal and press “ENTER“:

./configure \
    --enable-fpm \
    --with-mcrypt \
    --enable-mbstring \
    --with-openssl \
    --with-mysql \
    --with-mysql-sock \
    --with-gd \
    --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \
    --enable-gd-native-ttf  \
    --with-pdo-mysql \
    --with-libxml-dir=/usr/lib \
    --with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config \
    --with-curl \
    --enable-zip  \
    --enable-sockets \
    --with-zlib \
    --enable-exif \
    --enable-ftp \
    --with-iconv \
    --with-gettext \
    --enable-gd-native-ttf \
    --with-t1lib=/usr \
    --with-freetype-dir=/usr \
    --prefix=/opt/PHP-5.6 \
    --with-config-file-path=/opt/PHP-5.6/etc \
    --with-fpm-user=www-data \
    --with-fpm-group=www-data

this command will make PHP 5.6.9 installed within the /opt/PHP-5.6 directory.

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NOTE

if you encounter an error like

configure: error: freetype.h not found

even-though you installed libfreetype6-dev, then execute the following commands and try the ./configure again:

mkdir /usr/include/freetype2/freetype
ln -s /usr/include/freetype2/freetype.h /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h

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COMPILE PHP

Now it’s time to compile PHP. So, run make to build the sources:

make

if the “make” command is not installed you can install it with:

apt-get install make

and run “make” again.

once the compilation is completed, optionally you may want to run make test to test the set-up:

make test

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INSTALL PHP

And finally, in the test goes well, run make install to install the compiled PHP to /opt/PHP-5.6

make install

That’s it.

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VERIFY PHP VERSION

To check the PHP version, run:

/opt/PHP-5.6/bin/php -v

PHP 5.6.9 (cli) (built: Jun 11 2015 09:41:12)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies

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