How To Use PHP 4.4.9 (FastCGI) With Apache & ISPConfig 3 (Debian Wheezy)
Since ISPConfig 3.0.5, it is possible to use multiple PHP versions on one server and select the optimal PHP version for a website. If you have some very old websites on your server, they might not work with PHP5, but only with PHP4. This tutorial shows how to build PHP 4.4.9 as a FastCGI version for use with Apache2 on a Debian Wheezy server. This PHP version can be used together with the default PHP (installed through apt) in ISPConfig.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
PHP-FPM is not available for PHP4, therefore I just describe how to build a FastCGI version of PHP4. FastCGI is available only for Apache servers, therefore you cannot use it with nginx..
2 Building PHP 4.4.9 (FastCGI)
Install the prerequisites for building from source code:
apt-get install build-essential
PHP 4.4.9 will not compile with modern OpenSSL versions, therefore we need to install an older OpenSSL version (0.9.8x) first:
cd /tmp
wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8x.tar.gz
tar xvfz openssl-0.9.8x.tar.gz
cd openssl-0.9.8x
./config --prefix=/usr/local/openssl-0.9.8
make
make install
Download and extract PHP 4.4.9:
mkdir /opt/phpfcgi-4.4.9
mkdir /usr/local/src/php4-build
cd /usr/local/src/php4-build
wget http://de.php.net/get/php-4.4.9.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror -O php-4.4.9.tar.bz2
tar jxf php-4.4.9.tar.bz2
cd php-4.4.9/
Create some necessary symlinks:
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng.so /usr/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so.18 /usr/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so /usr/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so
mkdir /usr/kerberos
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/kerberos/lib
Next we must disable the functions mysql_drop_db and mysql_create_db because otherwise you will get these errors when you try to build PHP 4.4.9:
error: undefined reference to 'mysql_drop_db'
error: undefined reference to 'mysql_create_db'
Open /usr/local/src/php4-build/php-4.4.9/ext/mysql/php_mysql.c...
vi /usr/local/src/php4-build/php-4.4.9/ext/mysql/php_mysql.c
... and go to line 1131. From there on, comment out both functions:
[...]
/*PHP_FUNCTION(mysql_create_db)
{
zval **db, **mysql_link;
int id;
php_mysql_conn *mysql;
switch(ZEND_NUM_ARGS()) {
case 1:
if (zend_get_parameters_ex(1, &db)==FAILURE) {
RETURN_FALSE;
}
id = php_mysql_get_default_link(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAM_PASSTHRU);
CHECK_LINK(id);
break;
case 2:
if (zend_get_parameters_ex(2, &db, &mysql_link)==FAILURE) {
RETURN_FALSE;
}
id = -1;
break;
default:
WRONG_PARAM_COUNT;
break;
}
php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_NOTICE, "This function is deprecated, please use mysql_query() to issue a SQL CREATE DATABASE statement instead.");
ZEND_FETCH_RESOURCE2(mysql, php_mysql_conn *, mysql_link, id, "MySQL-Link", le_link, le_plink);
PHPMY_UNBUFFERED_QUERY_CHECK();
convert_to_string_ex(db);
if (mysql_create_db(&mysql->conn, Z_STRVAL_PP(db))==0) {
RETURN_TRUE;
} else {
RETURN_FALSE;
}
}*/
/* }}} */
/* {{{ proto bool mysql_drop_db(string database_name [, int link_identifier])
Drops (delete) a MySQL database */
/*PHP_FUNCTION(mysql_drop_db)
{
zval **db, **mysql_link;
int id;
php_mysql_conn *mysql;
switch(ZEND_NUM_ARGS()) {
case 1:
if (zend_get_parameters_ex(1, &db)==FAILURE) {
RETURN_FALSE;
}
id = php_mysql_get_default_link(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAM_PASSTHRU);
CHECK_LINK(id);
break;
case 2:
if (zend_get_parameters_ex(2, &db, &mysql_link)==FAILURE) {
RETURN_FALSE;
}
id = -1;
break;
default:
WRONG_PARAM_COUNT;
break;
}
php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_NOTICE, "This function is deprecated, please use mysql_query() to issue a SQL DROP DATABASE statement instead.");
ZEND_FETCH_RESOURCE2(mysql, php_mysql_conn *, mysql_link, id, "MySQL-Link", le_link, le_plink);
convert_to_string_ex(db);
if (mysql_drop_db(&mysql->conn, Z_STRVAL_PP(db))==0) {
RETURN_TRUE;
} else {
RETURN_FALSE;
}
}*/
/* }}} */
[...] |
Install the prerequisites for building PHP5 (in our case this also covers the prerequisites for building PHP4):
apt-get build-dep php5
Configure and build PHP 4.4.9 as follows (you can adjust the ./configure command to your needs, take a look at
./configure --help
to see all available options; if you use a different ./configure command, it is possible that additional libraries are required, or the build process will fail):
./configure \
--prefix=/opt/phpfcgi-4.4.9 \
--with-pdo-pgsql \
--with-zlib-dir \
--with-freetype-dir \
--enable-mbstring \
--with-libxml-dir=/usr \
--enable-soap \
--enable-calendar \
--with-curl \
--with-mcrypt \
--with-zlib \
--with-gd \
--with-pgsql \
--disable-rpath \
--enable-inline-optimization \
--with-bz2 \
--with-zlib \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-sysvsem \
--enable-sysvshm \
--enable-pcntl \
--enable-mbregex \
--with-mhash \
--enable-zip \
--with-pcre-regex \
--with-mysql=/usr \
--with-mysql-sock=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
--with-png-dir=/usr \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl-0.9.8 \
--with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/openssl-0.9.8 \
--with-libdir=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
--enable-ftp \
--with-imap \
--with-imap-ssl \
--with-kerberos \
--with-gettext \
--with-expat-dir=/usr \
--enable-fastcgi
The last switch (--enable-fastcgi) makes sure this PHP version will work with FastCGI.
make
make install
Copy php.ini to the correct location:
cp /usr/local/src/php4-build/php-4.4.9/php.ini-recommended /opt/phpfcgi-4.4.9/lib/php.ini
That's it - we will now add the APC module to our PHP 4.4.9 installation:
cd /tmp
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.0.19.tgz
tar xvfz APC-3.0.19.tgz
cd APC-3.0.19
/opt/phpfcgi-4.4.9/bin/phpize
./configure --enable-apc --enable-apc-mmap --with-php-config=/opt/phpfcgi-4.4.9/bin/php-config
make
make install
Afterwards, open /opt/phpfcgi-4.4.9/lib/php.ini...
vi /opt/phpfcgi-4.4.9/lib/php.ini
... and set extension_dir = "/opt/phpfcgi-4.4.9/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429" and add the line extension=apc.so at the end of the file (you can also configure some additional APC settings):
[...] extension_dir = "/opt/phpfcgi-4.4.9/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429" [...] extension=apc.so apc.enabled=1 apc.shm_segments=1 apc.shm_size=512 apc.ttl=0 apc.user_ttl=600 apc.gc_ttl=600 apc.enable_cli=1 apc.mmap_file_mask=/tmp/apc.XXXXXX ;apc.mmap_file_mask=/dev/zero ;apc.shm_segments = 5 |
In ISPConfig 3.0.5, you can configure the new PHP version under System > Additional PHP Versions. On the Name tab, you just fill in a name for the PHP version (e.g. PHP 4.4.9) - this PHP version will be listed under this name in the website settings in ISPConfig:
Go to the FastCGI Settings tab (the PHP-FPM Settings tab can be left empty) and fill out the fields as follows:
If everything is working as expected, you can now choose PHP 4.4.9 for a website in ISPConfig. You can check the PHP version of a website by creating a PHP file with the phpinfo(); function in it and calling that file in your browser:
3 Links
- PHP: http://www.php.net/
- ISPConfig: http://www.ispconfig.org/
- Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/
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