Compiling PHP on Ubuntu boxes.
If you would like to compile PHP from source as opposed to relying on package maintainers, here's a list of packages, and commands you can run
STEP 1:
sudo apt-get install autoconf build-essential curl libtool \
libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev libreadline7 \
libreadline-dev libzip-dev libzip4 nginx openssl \
pkg-config zlib1g-dev
So you don't overwrite any existing PHP installs on your system, install PHP in your home directory. Create a directory for the PHP binaries to live
mkdir -p ~/bin/php7-latest/
STEP 2:
# download the latest PHP tarball, decompress it, then cd to the new directory.
STEP 3:
Configure PHP. Remove any options you don't need (like MySQL or Postgres (--with-pdo-pgsql))
./configure --prefix=$HOME/bin/php-latest \
--enable-mysqlnd \
--with-pdo-mysql \
--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd \
--with-pdo-pgsql=/usr/bin/pg_config \
--enable-bcmath \
--enable-fpm \
--with-fpm-user=www-data \
--with-fpm-group=www-data \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-phpdbg \
--enable-shmop \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-sysvmsg \
--enable-sysvsem \
--enable-sysvshm \
--enable-zip \
--with-libzip=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
--with-zlib \
--with-curl \
--with-pear \
--with-openssl \
--enable-pcntl \
--with-readline
STEP 4:
compile the binaries by typing: make
If no errors, install by typing: make install
STEP 5:
Copy the PHP.ini file to the install directory
cp php.ini-development ~/bin/php-latest/lib/
STEP 6:
cd ~/bin/php-latest/etc;
mv php-fpm.conf.default php-fpm.conf
mv php-fpm.d/www.conf.default php-fpm.d/www.conf
STEP 7:
create symbolic links for your for your binary files
cd ~/bin
ln -s php-latest/bin/php php
ln -s php-latest/bin/php-cgi php-cgi
ln -s php-latest/bin/php-config php-config
ln -s php-latest/bin/phpize phpize
ln -s php-latest/bin/phar.phar phar
ln -s php-latest/bin/pear pear
ln -s php-latest/bin/phpdbg phpdbg
ln -s php-latest/sbin/php-fpm php-fpm
STEP 8: link your local PHP to the php command. You will need to logout then log back in for php to switch to the local version instead of the installed version
# add this to .bashrc
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
STEP 9: Start PHP-FPM
sudo ~/bin/php7/sbin/php-fpm
