I thought I upgraded to PHP 5.3.8 but...
 

I'm running Debian (Lenny) with PHP 5.3.3-0 which was installed via apt. I wanted to upgrade to 5.3.8 for security so I downloaded the latest version and manually ran the usual:

configure
make
make test
make install

After doing that, my info.php* script still says that I'm running 5.3.3-0. Anybody know what I'm missing here?

Hi,

Since you used a plain ./configure (without a --prefix option), php is installed under the default /usr/local. So if you want to run the new binary you should use:
You may add /usr/local/bin in your $PATH before /usr/bin, so you can always use the new php instead of the one installed by your distro

Regards

You probably want to run PHP as an apache module? So you need a share object file libphp5.so that is ready to go with your apache.


1. install apxs2 (apache extension management)
sudo apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev

2. reconfigure your php
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2

then make + install + restart the server.

Yes, thats right, but I think he forgot to call his local installation of PHP from apache2.conf. He must substitute the old call for the new one.

Thanks guys. The apache2 mods available folder has php5.load which already contains:

LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so

I guess I will have to follow j-ray's instructions. However, I'm surprised that the current installation works as a module since apxs2 is apparently not installed yet.

I don't see any reference in my apache configuration files to a php binary, only the socket.

EDIT

In any case, I did as j-ray suggested. The only hiccup was a debian and ubuntu specific problem with apxs2 where it insists that there be existing LoadModule statements in httpd.conf . I was able to work around it by forcing make to ignore the error.

Thanks again!

Here it is -> LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so

Humans, me included, have often problems not seeing the woods for the trees ;-)