Problem installing PHP 4 on RedHat 9.0

Hawkee

I'm having a real hard time upgrading PHP on RedHat 9.0 to include mySQL support. When I try to install PHP 4.3.1, it won't compile in 'so' mode without giving me numerous errors. Does anybody have experience with this that might be able to provide me with a little insight into my problem? Thanks!

Hawkee

matt_4013

This should probably be in the install forum, but it's all good.

What configure string are you using?

Hawkee

Sorry about that, didn't know the board existed. Anyway, I used apxs for my install string and could not get that to work properly at all. I had problems with the php mysql library files because they didn't link up properly with errno.h which I manually added to a few .c files to get around that. I ran into a few other problems after that as well.

Anyway, I decided to install as a module instead by compiling libphp4.a and recompiling Apache. This worked and I was finally able to get PHP 4.3.1 running.

I had to do this completely separate from the RedHat 9 Apache installation because I could not find a way to install over it or upgrade PHP easily.

So now that I've got things running finally, I just need to know how to tell PHP to look for mysql.sock in /var/lib/mysql. I created a symbolic link in /tmp as a temporary fix, but this feels wrong. Any ideas? Thanks!

Hawkee

tsinka

Hi,

a way to install php over the existing one:

Create a phpinfo page to be shown with your existing apache installation. On top of the page you can see the configure parameters that were used to compile that php module.

Recompile php with exactly the same parameters but you might need to install all packages php depends on prior to compiling the new version.

After make search the so in the php source tree and replace the old one (make a backup).

That should work. What errors do you get ? The errno.h problem is a known issue and hasn't been fixed yet 🙁