Install PHP 5 on Debian/Ubuntu

These are a set of bash scripts for building and running PHP 5 (CLI and FPM) on Debian based Linux distributions:

• build.sh installs the necessary build dependencies and the latest development version of PHP with CLI and FPM server APIs (SAPI) from the latest PHP 5 branch of https://github.com/php/php-src

• install.sh sets up PHP-FPM by moving configuration files into their correct locations in /usr/local/php5 and enables the php5-fpm service and adds it to the startup sequence.

Please note that these are very simple scripts that don't implement error checking or process validation.

Usage

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/hranicka/php-5-debian.git
cd php-5-debian
./build.sh

Install

sudo ./install.sh

Update only

sudo ./update.sh

About installation

The PHP-FPM can be operated using the php5-fpm init script:

Usage: /etc/init.d/php5-fpm {start|stop|status|restart|reload|force-reload}

while the FPM socket is available at

127.0.0.1:9006

and PHP CLI:

/usr/local/php5/bin/php -v
PHP 5.6.27 (cli) (built: Jun 23 2016 20:58:06) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
	with Zend OPcache v5.6.27, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies

Configuration files

All PHP configuration files are stored under /usr/local/php5:

/usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini
/usr/local/php5/etc/php-fpm.conf
/usr/local/php5/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
/usr/local/php5/etc/conf.d/modules.ini

while the Debian init script is added to:

/etc/init.d/php5-fpm

Extensions

Note that most of the third-party PHP extensions are not yet compatible with PHP 5 and Gophp5-ext (also on GitHub) is a project to help do that. Here is a list of PHP modules that are enabled by default in this build:

$ /usr/local/php5/bin/php -m
[PHP Modules]
bcmath
bz2
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dba
dom
exif
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gd
gettext
hash
iconv
intl
json
libxml
mbstring
mcrypt
mhash
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
pdo_mysql
pdo_sqlite
Phar
posix
pspell
readline
Reflection
session
shmop
SimpleXML
soap
sockets
SPL
sqlite3
standard
sysvmsg
sysvsem
sysvshm
tokenizer
wddx
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
Zend OPcache
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]
Zend OPcache

[PECL]
APCu
SSH2

Shortcuts

sudo ln -s /usr/local/php5/bin/php /usr/bin/php5

Installing Extensions

Please note that you need to restart php5-fpm to activate the extension.

Install the Memcached Extension

cd php-5-debian/extensions
./memcached-build.sh
./memcached-install.sh

Install the Imagick Extension

cd php-5-debian/extensions
./imagick-build.sh
./imagick-install.sh

After installation

cd ..
sudo ./update.sh

Credits

• Created by Kaspars Dambis
• Contributors: Piotr Plenik
• Based on php5.sh by Tom Van Looy