PHP5 GD2 + other modifications to be competitive...

Question

I've been reading a number of Topics here about this issue but there seems to be no definitive 'Apple' resolution.
We really need to be able to install PHP5 (and other Modules, such as GD2) to be competitive and up-to-date with the industry. We are 'Mac' after all! It meant to be easy ... "I'm a mac, they're PC's" after all.
Can anyone please shed some light on upgrading OS X Server 10.4.8 to have PHP5 and the GD2 library WITHOUT breaking Server Admin, WebMail, MySQL... as this eems to be the result experienced on the other Threads.

Answer 1

James,
1/ GD2 running with PHP 4 if possible, just mod
current OS X server PHP?
This is simple and straightforward and according to the ktools site should be enough. Nothing will break and you get the extra functionality.
2/ GD2 running with PHP 5, replace current OS X
server PHP.
3/ GD2 running with PHP 5 and MySQL 5, replace the
lot.
2 & 3 are about the same as far as getting them to work. Not too difficult, but a few things will need tweaking and Server Admin has to be used carefully.
I tried Marc Liyanage's Entropy packages and screwed
up there too.
His packages are great, but obviously cannot cater to all possible situations.
Personally I prefer building from scratch.
If I could have some step-by-step help in upgrading
OS X Server 10.4.8 to have PHP5, GD2 and MySQL 5 with
PHPMyAdmin linking and working still I would be
jumping for joy. So much so I (and I'm sure 000's of
others) would be happy to pay for it! (maybe as a.pdf
tutorial).
Can sure be done. However this means kissing Server Admin goodbye as far as web services are concerned. It's not that SA doesn't work, but it ocassionally hoses config files and in a scenario like this it means trouble for the unexperienced.
I am contemplating writing a few tutorials on this, but it will take some time (which I currently lack
So for starters let's get phase 1 done, so that you can use ktools.
A few assumptions:
-You do have a backup
-You do have a backup
-You are running 10.4.x
-You have not manually updated anything related to PHP or Apache so far
-XCode 2.4 or higher and the X11 SDK are installed on your server
-You do have a backup.
-You have a PPC processor
So let's get going:
1. Make sure you are logged in as root.
2. Make sure you using the bash shell (look at the title of the terminal window). If not issue "bash".
3. Edit /etc/profile and look for the following 2 lines:
PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin"
export PATH
If they are there fine, if not add/adjust them
4. Install GD2 and required libraries by issuing the following commands one after the other making sure you do not miss any dots or slashes:
(Instructions partly based on http://www.paginar.net/matias/articles/gdxhowto.html)
gcc_select 3.3 (unless you have Intel hardware. In that case ignore this command)
mkdir -p /SourceCache
cd /SourceCache
curl -O http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
curl -O http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.12.tar.gz
curl -O ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
curl -O http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz
curl -O http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-2.0.33.tar.gz
tar xzpf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
tar xzpf libpng-1.2.12.tar.gz
tar xzpf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
tar xzpf freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz
tar xzpf gd-2.0.33.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.3
./configure --shared && make && sudo make install
cd ../libpng-1.2.12
cp scripts/makefile.darwin Makefile
Now edit the file "Makefile" and make sure the paths are as follows. Be careful about what is commented ad what isn't:
ZLIBLIB=/usr/local/lib
ZLIBINC=/usr/local/include
#ZLIBLIB=../zlib
#ZLIBINC=../zlib
Continue by issuing:
make && sudo make install
cd ../jpeg-6b
rm libtool
ln -s `which glibtool` ./libtool
export MACOSXDEPLOYMENTTARGET=10.4
./configure --enable-shared && make && sudo make install
cd ../freetype-2.1.10
./configure && make && sudo make install
ln -s /usr/X11R6/include/fontconfig /usr/local/include
(may cause an error. ignore)
cd ../gd-2.0.33
./configure
make && sudo make install
cd /SourceCache
rm zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
rm libpng-1.2.12.tar.gz
rm jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
rm freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz
rm gd-2.0.33.tar.gz
rm -r zlib-1.2.3
rm -r libpng-1.2.12
rm -r jpegsrc.v6b
rm -r freetype-2.1.10
rm -r gd-2.0.33
5. Install PHP 4.4.4 by issuing the following commands one after the other making sure you do not miss any dots or slashes:
cd /SourceCache
curl -O http://us3.php.net/distributions/php-4.4.4.tar.gz
tar xzpf php-4.4.4.tar.gz
cd php-4.4.4
sh
CFLAGS=-DBIND8COMPAT
export CFLAGS
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-apxs --with-ldap=/usr --with-kerberos=/usr --enable-cli --with-zlib-dir=/usr --enable-trans-sid --with-xml --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-mbstring --enable-dbx --enable-sockets --with-iodbc=/usr --with-curl=/usr --with-gd --with-config-file-path=/etc
(The above is one long line starting with ./configure)
make && make install
sudo apachectl graceful restart
exit
With a little luck you should now be all set and have an "Apple compliant" version of PHP with GD support.
php -v should tell you the version
php -i will give you more info.
HTH,
Alex