Installing PHP 7.4.33 as CGI on *new* Pair Networks architecture

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# Installing PHP 5.3.27 as CGI/FastCGI on the *new* Pair Networks shared
# server architecture
# By Jay Williams <http://myd3.com/>
# Based off of the Pair Users wiki page "Installing PHP5 as cgi" <http://www.pairusers.com/?How%20to%20install%20PHP5>

# Note: Replace "USERNAME" qith your actual server username

# If you're having issues with "make" being quit due to memory usage,
# you can set a lower max on the gcc memory usage, which will slow things
# down but allow you to still compile. Note: If you set or change CFLAGS,
# you will need to re-run the "configure" command(s) for them to take effect.

# setenv CFLAGS "--param ggc-min-expand=0 --param ggc-min-heapsize=4096 -fno-inline"

# Make src directory in home
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src

# Download, configure, and compile libxml2
wget http://xmlsoft.org/sources/libxml2-2.9.1.tar.gz
tar zxf libxml2-2.9.1.tar.gz
cd libxml2-2.9.1

# Make our local usr directory for libxml2
mkdir -p ~/usr/local

# Note: "--without-python" is needed to prevent permission issues when installing
./configure --prefix=/usr/home/USERNAME/usr/local/ --without-python

make install
make clean

# Download, configure, and compile PHP
cd ~/src
wget http://www.php.net/distributions/php-5.3.27.tar.gz
tar zxf php-5.3.27.tar.gz
cd php-5.3.27

# Make a directory to store our php ini file
mkdir -p ~/phpini/php53

'./configure' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/home/USERNAME/phpini/php53' '--enable-debug=no' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect=yes' '--with-mysql=mysqlnd' '--with-mysqli=mysqlnd' '--disable-fileinfo' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr/home/USERNAME/usr/local/' '--enable-soap' '--with-openssl' '--with-curl' '--enable-mbstring'

make

# Use the latest Pair Networks PHP 5.3 php.ini
cp /usr/local/etc/php53/php.ini ~/phpini/php53/php.ini

# Alternatively, you can use the php.ini that you downloaded
# cp php.ini-production ~/phpini/php53/php.ini

# Copy PHP to the cgi-bin directory
cp sapi/cgi/php-cgi ~/public_html/cgi-bin/php53.cgi
strip ~/public_html/cgi-bin/php53.cgi

make clean

# Add this to your .htaccess file:
# Action application/x-httpd-php5cgi /cgi-bin/php53.cgi
# AddType application/x-httpd-php5cgi .php .php5

Of potential note, if you do run into memory limitations and you're using bash/sh (which I think is default?), instead of some csh derivative, then setenv doesn't exist for you,

so you'll want to use, for example:

CFLAGS="--param ggc-min-expand=0 --param ggc-min-heapsize=4096 -fno-inline" bash

however even then I was unable to get even the xml built correctly without reaper reaping me. I've opened a ticket to pair and ... we'll see.

I had no problem with memory limits or being reaped but then I'm on one of Pair's "High Volume" (HV-1) servers.

My application requires PHP 5.2.17, and to enable MySQL support I had to change this:

'--with-mysql=mysqlnd' '--with-mysqli=mysqlnd'

to this:

'--with-mysql' '--with-mysqli'

I merged your configuration options with those that were previously enabled on the PHP build on my server, resulting in the following:

'./configure' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/home/USERNAME/phpini/php52' '--enable-debug=no' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect=yes' '--with-mysql' '--with-mysqli' '--disable-fileinfo' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr/home/USERNAME/usr/local/' '--enable-soap' '--with-openssl' '--with-curl' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--with-zlib' '--enable-bcmath' '--with-bz2' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-dba' '--with-gdbm' '--with-ndbm' '--with-db4' '--enable-exif' '--with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir' '--with-freetype-dir' '--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mhash' '--with-iodbc' '--with-pdo-mysql' '--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr/local' '--with-pspell' '--with-xsl' 

I just updated the script to install PHP 5.3.27 and the latest version of libxml2, as a server configuration change on Pair's side caused my previous binary to no longer work.

The script has been updated for PHP 7.4.30, on Pair's VPS service. If you want to see the old PHP 5.3 version, view the previous commit:

https://gist.github.com/jaywilliams/979039/d764b58fc842e1b0593749b1005fcef5c8ed2c1d