php4.0 installation without root permiss

Anon

I am trying to run php on apache as a regular user on solaris. I installed apache 1.3.20 with foll. 3 commands:
configure --with-PREFIX=/home/wwwuser/apache_1.3.20 --enable-module=so --enable-module=trackuser

make
make install

Then I start installing php 4.0.6:
configure --with-apache=/home/wwwuser/apache_1.3.20

make
make install (HERE'S THE PROBLEM)

make install tries to create dirs in /usr/local/lib and ofcourse, I donot have permissions to do that. Is there any way I can install php so that php scripts in my home directory can execute??? My SA won't install the php module even though I ave been asking him for more than a year. I have tried several different hackings but evey time make install will fail for php4.0.6. I will really really appreciate your help. If you have any questions from me, please post them here. Thanks. Happy 4th of July !

Anon

Hi, here's part of error mesg at the end of make install:

modules/php4/Makefile.tmpl; cp ./sapi/apache/apMakefile.libdir
/home/wwwuser/apache_1.3.20/src/modules/php4/Makefile.libdir
mkdir: Failed to make directory "/usr/local/lib/php"; Permission denied
mkdir: Failed to make directory "/usr/local/lib/php/extensions"; No such
file or directory
mkdir: Failed to make directory
"/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20001222"; No such file or
directory
Making install in pear
mkdir: Failed to make directory "/usr/local/lib/php"; Permission denied
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| The installation process is incomplete. The following resources were |
| not installed: |
| |
| Self-contained Extension Support |
| PEAR: PHP Extension and Add-on Repository |
| |
| To install these components, become the
| # make install-su |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Error code 5
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target install-data-local' Current working directory /home/wwwuser/php-4.0.6/pear *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for targetinstall-recursive'
Current working directory /home/wwwuser/php-4.0.6/pear
Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-recursive'

Anon

What you need is the --prefix switch for configure for both apache and php.

Note that apache will also have to bind to a port above 1023 as ports 0 to 1023 are reserved for root use only. I.e. your webserver will be something like:

http://host.domain.com:8080 or something like that.

--prefix=/home/wwwuser/php or something should work. Then you'll have to have the libpath in your environment for apache to find libphp.so (I think it's called libpath, I just edit /etc/ld.so.conf on my linux boxen cause I "own" them.