Compiling PHP on Centos

The precompiled PHP binary does not include MySQL support so it must be recompiled from source.

Download the PHP package and untar it

Download the httpd headers
yum install httpd-devel

Configure
./configure –with-mysql=/usr/bin/ –with-libdir=lib64
–with-apxs2 –with-pic –without-aolserver

make
make test
make install
edit http.conf

LoadModule php5_module        /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/libphp5.so

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Alias /php/ "/var/www/html/php/htdocs/"
<Directory "/var/www/html/php/htdocs/">
   Options Indexes FollowSymlinks
   AllowOverride All
   <LimitExcept POST GET>
      Order deny,allow
      Deny from all
   </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-php/ "/var/www/html/php/"
<Directory "/var/www/html/php/">
SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1/lib32
   Options +ExecCGI
   AllowOverride None
   <LimitExcept POST GET>
      Order deny,allow
      Deny from all
   </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

Restart the httpd daemon