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Prerequisite : yum install gcc-c++ gcc make ncurses-devel openssl-devel glibc* libc-*

Packages required for php: yum install libjpeg-devel libpng-devel curl-devel libmcrypt-devel krb5-devel

Apache Server Installation from Source:
Apache installation directory is : /usr/local/apache
a) Download the apache source file from : http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
b) Download the source file in to /tmp directory.
c) I am guessing the source file is httpd-2.2.13.tar.gz
d) Cd /tmp
e) tar –xvzf httpd-2.2.13.tar.gz
f) cd httpd-2.2.13

g)

 
./configure  --prefix=/usr/local/apache --with-included-apr --with-php --with-mysql --with-susexec --disable-info --with-mpm=prefork --enable-so --enable-cgi --enable-rewrite --enable-ssl --enable-mime-magic --enable-unique-id --enable-mods-shared="proxy cache ssl all"

h) make
i) make install
j)To restart apache : /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start

MySql Server Install from source:

Ref:http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/quick-install.html

a)Download my.version.tar.gz from
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#source

b)shell> groupadd mysql
c)shell> useradd -g mysql mysql
d)shell> gunzip < mysql-VERSION.tar.gz | tar -xvf – e)shell> cd mysql-VERSION
f)

   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-ssl --with-plugins=innobase

note:: for mysql 5.1 : to add innodb support its ” –with-plugins=innobase” but for 5.0 its “./configure –with-innodb”
g)shell> make
h)shell> make install
i)shell> cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf
j)shell> cd /usr/local/mysql
k)shell> chown -R mysql .
l)shell> chgrp -R mysql .
m)shell> bin/mysql_install_db -–user=mysql
n)shell> chown -R root .
o)shell> chown -R mysql var
p)shell> bin/mysqld_safe -–user=mysql &

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER !
To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands:
./bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'

Php installation from source with GD library Support

http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php

a) Download the php source from here : http://www.php.net/downloads.php
b) Download the source file in to /tmp directory
c) Here I am gussing the php version is php-5.3.0.tar.gz
d) Tar –xvzf php-5.3.0.tar.gz
e) Cd php-5.3.0
f)

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --enable-mbstring --with-gd --with-zlib --with-jpeg-dir --with-png-dir --with-openssl --with-curl --with-mcrypt --with-imap --with-imap-ssl --with-kerberos --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

g) make
h) make install
i) setup your php.ini : cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/lib/php.ini

j) In httpd.conf file.. check for bellow lines

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so

j) Add the bellow lines in httpd.conf file to allow .php extension.
add bellow lines under directive

Add php extension

 
<FilesMatch "\.phps$">
          SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source
      </FilesMatch>
 
 <FilesMatch "\.ph(p[2-6]?|tml)$">
          SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
      </FilesMatch>

j) Stop apache /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl1 stop
k) Restart apache /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl1 start

Note :

(a) configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation. : yum install libxml2-devel

(b) configure: error: libpng.(a|so) not found.
configure: error: libjpeg.(a|so) not found.
(c) Error : configure: error: utf8_mime2text() has new signature, but U8T_CANONICAL is missing
yum install libc-client-devel*
So it will try to find accurate rpm for your kernel(32/64)

(d) If you have older httpd daemon running , please stop that daemon,Other wise when you will start apache daemon, it will through an error .You can check by bellow command to make sure you don’t have any other httpd is running in background.

ps aux | grep -v grep | grep httpd

If this returns value that means another httpd daemon is running and you can stop it by executing

service httpd stop

Last Update : 14-09-2010