PHP Install in different directory

holepro

I need a newer level of PHP and cURL than are available for me on my hosted Linux (debian) server, and they do not have plans to upgrade any time soon to the level I need.

I want to install my own version of PHP and cURL into directories I can create and update.

I'm trying to locate documentation where I can change the target of all the needed directories for the install process. It may be obvious, but, I have yet to find it under any of the install or --help information.

Any assistance or direction is greatly appreciated

Peggy

holepro

After additional research, my PHP level is 5.2.13, which is at the needed level.

However, the cURL level I need is a minimum of 7.18.0.

Is there a way to install my own copy of cURL (I have downloaded it, and installed it in my directories), but it appears I need to bind it with the PHP code to make it active,

What is the best way to accomplish this? any way without installing my own PHP, to target directories I select.

Again, thanks for any ideas.

peggy

bradgrafelman

Is this shared hosting you're talking about? If so, do you even have access to this server so that you could compile a new cURL module in the first place?

EDIT: Can you explain what led you to believe you need to upgrade either PHP or cURL in the first place?

holepro

The server I'm hosting my site on

is at PHP5 7.2.13 and cURL 7.15.5

I need to connect to Amazon's WebServices to automate my order processing to my warehouses.

The Pre-reqs for Amazon's Webservices with PHP are

PHP 5.2.8 or later (which I have on my server)
cURL 7.18.0 or later (which I do not have on my server)

I have successfully installed cURL with ssh2 support into a directory under the space I have access to ../htdocs/curl and have confirmed the needed includes exist needed in the following.

To use PHP's cURL support you must also compile PHP --with-curl[=DIR] where DIR is the location of the directory containing the lib and include directory there should be a folder named curl which should contain the easy.h and curl.h files. There should be a file named libcurl.a located in the lib directory. Beginning with PHP 4.3.0 you can configure PHP to use cURL for URL streams --with-curlwrappers.

So is it possible to 'bind' an existing php code with cURL support into a 'user specified target directory', and what is the needed ./configure command to do so.

Again, any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Peggy