It appears that many people or sys admin want to run php 5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Unfortunately Redhat does not provide this package (RPM file) for RHEL. You can download source code and install php 5 from official php site. This requires compiler collection on your system. Download source code and just follow instructions presented in INSTALL or REDME file.
Another option is search and installs PHP 5 packages. You can download x86_64 PHP 5 package here. Use wget command to download these packages and rpm command to install new packages. But first remove old php4 package using rpm -e command.
Alert: This post is outdated. Please use the latest version of RHEL/CentOS v6.x+ for PHP 5.x. The author no longer support php 5 rpm on RHEL 4.x.
However these rpm packages 64 bit so if you are running 32 bit os rebuild RPM file.
Step # 1: Download src rpm
# cd /tmp
# wget http://www.cyberciti.biz/files/lighttpd/rhel4-php5-fastcgi/php-5.1.4-1.esp1.src.rpm
# rpm -ivh php-5.1.4-1.esp1.src.rpm
Step #2: Rebuild RPM for 32 bit RHEL version
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# rpmbuild -bb php.spec
It will take some time to compile and rebuild RPM files.
Step #3: Install new php5 RPM file
Remove old php4 rpm. Go to /usr/src/redhat/RPMS directory and install PHP5 RPM files.
Please note that PHP 5 is not official supported by Red Hat on RHEL 4.0. You are using these packages on your own risk 😉
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Hii, i wanna ask
im using RHEL 4 and had installed PHP5 using this tutorial
but when i’m using command php -v
there are error looking like this
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/lib64/php/modules/domxml.so’ – /usr/lib64/php/modules/domxml.so: cannot open shared object file : No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
can give me advise
This article is so outdated it should be removed from the web. ALL the links are broken.
At last a program that gets me access to sky abroad!
HI,
Where will I get these dependency files?
up2date bzip2-devel aspell-devel …. etc-all
Thanks in advace
hi,
sorry, where did you find that php5 is not supported in RHEL4.0???
could you pass me the link?
I need to convince my team of developers that is not suitable migration
thanks in advance and sorry about my English
I need to upgrade my php 5.1.6 to 5.2.9 please help
Hmm, seems this method still expects me to remove php4.
Can’t I keep both php4 & php5 on the box ? without having to compile php5 from source.
Hi Chirag,
I did a rpm -e for each packages.
Then I ran an rpm -e –nodeps for packages that depend on one another (eg for php-pear and php).
Just out of curiosity Is there a better way to do this?
S
rpm -Uvh php-5.1.4-1.esp1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
php = 4.3.9-3.22.12 is needed by (installed) php-devel-4.3.9-3.22.12.i386
php = 4.3.9-3.22.12 is needed by (installed) php-imap-4.3.9-3.22.12.i386
php <= 4.4.0 is needed by (installed) php-sqlite2-1.0.2-200608291859.i386
php = 4.3.9-3.22.12 is needed by (installed) php-pear-4.3.9-3.22.12.i386
php = 4.3.9-3.22.12 is needed by (installed) php-mysql-4.3.9-3.22.12.i386
php = 4.3.9-3.22.12 is needed by (installed) php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.22.12.i386
php = 4.3.9-3.22.12 is needed by (installed) php-gd-4.3.9-3.22.12.i386
php = 4.3.9-3.22.12 is needed by (installed) php-domxml-4.3.9-3.22.12.i386
How do I remove the old php 4? I think that’s the problem for me.
All the steps went okie but php test is fail 🙁
Some of the bugs:
Bug #27908 (default handler not being called) [ext/xml/tests/bug27908.phpt]
Bug #26614 (CDATA sections skipped on line count) [ext/xml/tests/bug26614_libxml.phpt]
Is it usual ?
Hi all
I managed to install the packages from the FTP site on a RHEL4 64 bit system, without rebuilding the RPMS.
Works well thanks.
The people doing our web development have now advised that they require mssql support to work I have installed freetds on the server.
How do I get PHP support for MSSQL working.
Is there another module?
You might want to try using the PHP RPM’s created by Oracle at http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/
I not the greatest at this yet, but I was following the instruction to install PHP and ran across these errors. What I am missing?
httpd-devel >= 2.0.46-1 is needed by php-5.1.4-1.esp1
libjpeg-devel is needed by php-5.1.4-1.esp1
libpng-devel is needed by php-5.1.4-1.esp1
pcre-devel >= 4.5 is needed by php-5.1.4-1.esp1
file >= 4.0 is needed by php-5.1.4-1.esp1
libc-client-devel is needed by php-5.1.4-1.esp1
mysql-devel >= 4.1.0 is needed by php-5.1.4-1.esp1
unixODBC-devel is needed by php-5.1.4-1.esp1
libxslt-devel >= 1.0.18-1 is needed by php-5.1.4-1.esp1
freetype-devel is needed by php-5.1.4-1.esp1
When installing php-5.1.4-1.esp1.src.rpm got below errors
Configuring SAPI modules
checking for AOLserver support… no
checking for Apache 1.x module support via DSO through APXS… no
checking for Apache 1.x module support… no
checking for mod_charset compatibility option… no
checking for Apache 2.0 filter-module support via DSO through APXS… no
checking for Apache 2.0 handler-module support via DSO through APXS…
Sorry, I cannot run apxs. Possible reasons follow:
1. Perl is not installed
2. apxs was not found. Try to pass the path using –with-apxs2=/path/to/apxs
3. Apache was not built using –enable-so (the apxs usage page is displayed)
The output of /usr/sbin/apxs follows:
Can’t exec “/usr/bin/apr-config”: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/apxs line 48.
Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /usr/sbin/apxs line 53.
-O2 -g -pipe -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=pentium4
apxs:Error: /usr/bin/apr-config not found!.
configure: error: Aborting
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.71083 (%build)
RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.71083 (%build)