Compile PHP 5.5.28 from source in CentOS 6.5 to be used on Plesk 11.5. Based on http://kb.odin.com/en/118378

instructions.sh

# Download source

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://fr2.php.net/get/php-5.5.28.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror --output-document="php-5.5.28.tar.bz2"

# Untar to php-5.5.28/
tar xjvf php-5.5.28.tar.bz2

yum install libxml2-devel openssl-devel bzip2-devel curl-devel libjpeg-devel \
  libpng-devel freetype-devel gmp-devel mysql-devel ncurses-devel unixODBC-devel \
  net-snmp-devel mhash-devel libc-client-devel libicu-devel gcc postgresql-devel \
  aspell-devel libxslt-devel gcc-c++ openldap-devel

# Configure build. Added --enable-zip option to the command taken from http://kb.odin.com/en/118378 !
cd /usr/local/src/php-5.5.28
./configure '--with-libdir=lib64' '--cache-file=../config.cache' \
  '--prefix=/usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi/etc' \
  '--disable-debug' '--with-pic' '--disable-rpath' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl' \
  '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi' '--with-png-dir=/usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi' \
  '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--without-gdbm' '--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv' \
  '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi' '--with-openssl' '--with-pspell' '--with-pcre-regex' \
  '--with-zlib' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' \
  '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-wddx' '--with-kerberos' '--with-unixODBC=/usr' \
  '--enable-shmop' '--enable-calendar' '--without-sqlite3' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi' \
  '--enable-pcntl' '--with-imap' '--with-imap-ssl' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbregex' '--with-gd' \
  '--enable-bcmath' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-ldap' '--with-ldap-sasl' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-mysqli' \
  '--with-snmp' '--enable-soap' '--with-xsl' '--enable-xmlreader' '--enable-xmlwriter' '--enable-pdo' \
  '--with-pdo-mysql' '--with-pdo-pgsql' '--with-pear=/usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi/pear' '--enable-intl' \
  '--without-pdo-sqlite' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi/php.d' '--enable-cgi' \
  '--enable-zip'

# Compile
make

# Install
make install

# Setup php.ini
cp php.ini-development /usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi/etc/php.ini
#cp php.ini-production /usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi/etc/php.ini

# Restore SELinux contexts
restorecon -R /usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi


# Register the new PHP version in Plesk
/usr/local/psa/bin/php_handler --add \
  -displayname 5.5.28-custom \
  -path /usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi/bin/php-cgi \
  -phpini /usr/local/php-5.5.28-cgi/etc/php.ini \
  -type fastcgi \
  -id fastcgi-5.5.28

# List registered PHP versions
#/usr/local/psa/bin/php_handler --list

# Unregister from Plesk, if needed
#/usr/local/psa/bin/php_handler --remove -id fastcgi-5.5.28