If you have PHP4 working on your server, and have heard that PHP5 may screw up things. Here's how to have both running alongside. PHP: #!/bin/sh # PHP5 CGI Installer for cPanel/WHM Servers VERSION=5.0.4 cd /usr/src wget -O php.tbz2 "http://us4.php.net/get/php-${VERSION}.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror" tar -xjvf php.tbz2 rm -f php.tbz2 wget http://choon.net/opensource/php/php-${VERSION}-mail-header.patch cd php-${VERSION} patch -p1 < /usr/src/php-${VERSION}-mail-header.patch rm /usr/src/php-${VERSION}-mail-header.patch PHP=/usr/local/bin/php CFG=`$PHP -i | grep configure | sed "s/'//g" | sed "s/\.\/configure \(.*\)--with-apxs.*apxs \(.*\)/\1 \2/"` CFGLINE="${CFG##* => } —prefix=/usr/local/php5 —exec-prefix=/usr/local/php5 —program-suffix=5 —enable-force-cgi-redirect —enable-discard-path" ./configure $CFGLINE make make install cp -f php.ini-recommended /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini cp /usr/local/php5/bin/php5 /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 chown root:wheel /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 echo "Action application/x-httpd-php5 "/cgi-sys/php5"" > /usr/local/apache/conf/php5.conf echo "AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5" >> /usr/local/apache/conf/php5.conf TEST=`grep php5.conf /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf` if [ "$TEST" = "" ] then echo "Include /usr/local/apache/conf/php5.conf" >> /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf echo "Your all set to restart your apache now. " fi You'll need to run this code with root permissions of course, save the code as a file e.g., "php5install.sh", CHMOD this file to 644 so it's executable, and then run it at the command line. If you don't know any of these things, you shouldn't be executing this code at all. Anyway, this should set up PHP5 without interfering without your current setup. The file extension *.php5 will be associated with PHP5. When the script is done, simply restart Apache. On Linux type setups, it's as simple as "service httpd restart". Checkout the new stuff in PHP5 here.
