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

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# Installing PHP 7.4.33 as CGI/FastCGI on a Pair Networks VPS
# 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" with your actual server username

# Make src directory in home
mkdir ~/src

# Download, configure, and compile OpenSSL
cd ~/src
wget https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/download/OpenSSL_1_1_1t/openssl-1.1.1t.tar.gz
tar zxf openssl-1.1.1t.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.1.1t
./Configure --prefix=$HOME/bin -fPIC -shared linux-x86_64
make -j 8
make install
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/home/USERNAME/bin/lib/pkgconfig

# Download, configure, and compile PHP
cd ~/src
wget https://www.php.net/distributions/php-7.4.33.tar.gz
tar zxf php-7.4.33.tar.gz
cd php-7.4.33

# Make a directory to store our php ini file
mkdir -p ~/phpini/php74

'./configure' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/home/USERNAME/phpini/php74' '--enable-debug=no' '--enable-fpm' '--with-openssl' '--with-openssl-dir=/usr/home/USERNAME/bin/include/openssl' '--with-zlib' '--enable-bcmath' '--with-bz2' '--enable-calendar' '--with-curl' '--enable-dba' '--with-gdbm' '--with-db4' '--enable-exif' '--enable-gd' '--with-jpeg' '--with-freetype' '--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-mhash' '--with-mysqli=mysqlnd' '--with-iodbc' '--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd' '--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr' '--with-pdo-pgsql' '--with-pspell' '--with-xsl' '--with-zip' '--with-imap' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-kerberos' '--with-ldap' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-soap' '--with-pgsql' '--enable-sockets' '--with-tidy' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-sodium' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-pcntl' '--with-webp' '--with-pear' '--enable-opcache'

# Build PHP
make

# Use the latest Pair Networks PHP 7.4 php.ini
cp /usr/local/etc/php74/php.ini ~/phpini/php74/php.ini

# Note: To enabled opcache you need to add the line:
# zend_extension=opcache.so

# Alternatively, you can use the php.ini that you downloaded
# cp php.ini-production ~/phpini/php74/php.ini

# Remove debug symbols from the binary
strip sapi/cgi/php-cgi

# Copy PHP to the domain specific mapped cgi-bin directory
cp sapi/cgi/php-cgi ~/public_html/cgi-bin/php74.cgi

strip sapi/cli/php
cp sapi/cli/php ~/bin/

# Copy PHP to the domain specific mapped cgi-bin directory
cat << EOF > ~/public_html/cgi-bin/php74_wrapper.sh
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/home/USERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/php74.cgi
EOF
chmod 705 ~/public_html/cgi-bin/php74_wrapper.sh

# Remove built files
make clean

# Add this to your .htaccess file:
# Action application/x-httpd-php /cgi-bin/php74_wrapper.sh

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