zeus php 5.2.3 upgrade

Compiling php5 for zeus/fastcgi on Solaris 9.

php needed to be upgraded on a webserver to support several scripts that used the new msyqli database interface.

Sun Studio 12 was installed in /export2 because there wasn’t enought space at /opt, the default install location.

The following environmental variables were used:

The following was used to configure php 5.2.3:

php5 fastcgi startup script /etc/init.d/php5.fcgi:

php5 fastcgi

Previously, compiling php4 with fastcgi resulted in the /usr/local/php/bin/php binary being fastcgi compatible. This isn’t the case with php5. With php5 the /usr/local/php5fcgi/bin/php binary isn’t compatible with fastcgi. The compatible binary is /usr/local/php5fcgi/php-cgi.

php5 Pear libraries

Check what pear libraries were installed for php4:

Install the same libraries for php5:

Modify /etc/php5/php.ini

php’s ini file needed to be modifed:

MySQL 5

In order to fully exploit the power of php5, mysql5 should also be upgraded. I used blastwave.

Make a copy of the mysql data directory:

Copy the blastwave default mysql 5 conf file:

Edit the file:

Comment out the section about replication master:

After testing that everything works normally, the data-mysql5 directory was renamed to data and the previous data directory was archived.

MySQL startup scripts

Nick Johnson’s older startup script was modified:

• fastcgi
• php
• solaris
• Zeus