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Note Submitter: aruntheking at hotmail dot com ---- Installing PHP 4.2.3 on Red Hat Linux7.2 with Java Support-Arunoday ------------------------------- PHP as CGI module ------------------ 1. Download PHP from www.php.net 2. Copy the file in the folder you want to have it installed like /usr/local 3. Unpack the file using the following commands gunzip php-4.2.3.tar.gz tar xvf php-4.2.3.ta This will create a directory php-4.2.3. 4. cd into the above mentioned directory and type ./configure --with-java=<java directory> You can add more options with configure. For a full list of options type ./configure --help | more 5. If configure doesn't through any error then type make 6. To test make you can type make test 7. To complete the installation type make install In all probability the actual binary that this will create by the name php will be in the /usr/local/bin directory. This file should then be copied to your cgi-bin directory[the webservers cgi-bin] in my system i issued the following command cd /usr/local/bin/php /var/www/cgi-bin/php.cgi 8. Modify the php.ini with the following lines [java] java.class.path=/usr/local/lib/php/php_java.jar java.library.path=/usr/local/lib/php /extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429 java.home=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0_02 java.library=java.so extensions_dir=/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429 extension=java.so in all probability the php.ini file will be in the php4.2.3/pear/tests directory - u will need to copy it to the /usr/local/lib directory and add the above lines You will also need to cd into the directory specified in java.library.path above and type the following ln -s java.so libphp_java.so This will make a symbolic link to java.so file through libphp_java.so. A call to any of your PHP file will have to be like the following: http://<yourhostname>/cgi-bin/php.cgi?<yourfilename>.php PHP as Dynamic Shared Object ---------------------------- Retrieve PHP binary as mentioned above. The configiration process will be different and will be as follows: ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-java=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0_02 --with postgresql postgresql is optional - u can leave it out if you donot want to use it. apxs is required as it gives the directive to configure php as a dynamic shared object with Apache. Advantage, it runs in the same memory space as Apache and hence accessing of data is faster. Apart from this there is no need to call the php interpreter (php.cgi) with every call to a PHP file. Add the following lines in the php.ini file - it should be in /usr/local/lib [Java] java.class.path=/usr/local/lib/php/php_java.jar :/usr/share/pgsql/jdbc7.1-1.2.jar:/var/www/html java.home=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0_02 java.library=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0_02/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so extension_dir=/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429 extension=java.so You will also need to cd into the directory specified in java.library.path above and type the following ln -s java.so libphp_java.so This will make a symbolic link to java.so file through libphp_java.so. Note: the jdbc7.1-1.2.jar file mentioned in java.class.path is the JDBC part for Postgresql.