PHP and Solaris 8 /iPlanet

Hi Dale, Here is a document I put together when I built some of these servers about 6 months ago. I had the same problems you describe, but was able to get around them and have since repeated it on quite a few other machines. ============================================================================ Instructions for installing PHP with Solaris 8 and iPlanet Enterprise Server 4.1. Depending upon your requirements, install the following packages: flex gcc gzip perl bison make m4(included in Solaris 8) I also installed these packages: autoconf automake mysql gdbm gtar xpm zlib gd libpng jpeg freetype GNUm4 X11R64 After these are installed, perform the following: 1)1. gunzip php-version.tar.gz 2)2. tar xvf php-version.tar 3)3. cd ../php-version /usr/netscape/server4/ is where the iPlanet server is installed by default. If you change this, use your own path 4)./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-nsapi=/usr/netscape/server4 --enable-calendar --enable-ftp --enable-track-vars --enable-libgcc (Please read the install information for specific options included with PHP, for example, to enable on the fly graphics creation, add "--with-gd --with-zlib --with-libpng --with-jpeg" to the line above.) 5)make 6)su (become root) 7)make install (depending on your path, this may require you to use something like: /usr/ccs/bin/make install) In order to make my installations work properly, I had to create the following symbolic link in the server root directory: ln -s /usr/netscape/server4/plugins/include /usr/netscape/server4/include I also added /usr/local/lib to the LIBPATH statement in the server start script contained in the directory /usr/netscape/server4/https-server.domain as below: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${SERVER_ROOT}/bin/${PRODUCT_NAME}/lib:/usr/local/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH};export LD_LIBRARY_PATH Next make the changes to the obj.conf file as listed in the nsapi-readme.txt file then stop and restart your iPlanet server. You can create a page to test php by making a new file that contains: <? phpinfo() ?> This is all that is needed to show all php installation options as well as lots of other useful information about php. -- Good Luck! Gary Schut