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10.5.4 Unix: I installed PHP 3 using RPMS, but it doesn't compile with the database support I need! What's going on here?

Due to the way PHP 3 built, it is not easy to build a complete flexible PHP RPM. This issue is addressed in PHP 4. For PHP 3, we currently suggest you use the mechanism described in the INSTALL.REDHAT file in the PHP distribution. If you insist on using an RPM version of PHP 3, read on...

The RPM packagers are setting up the RPMS to install without database support to simplify installations and because RPMS use /usr/ instead of the standard /usr/local/ directory for files. You need to tell the RPM spec file which databases to support and the location of the top-level of your database server.

This example will explain the process of adding support for the popular MySQL database server, using the mod installation for Apache.

Of course all of this information can be adjusted for any database server that PHP supports. We will assume you installed MySQL and Apache completely with RPMS for this example as well.

First remove mod_php3 :
```
rpm -e mod_php3
```
Then get the source rpm and INSTALL it, NOT --rebuild
```
rpm -Uvh mod_php3-3.0.5-2.src.rpm
```

Then edit the /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/mod_php3.spec file

In the %build section add the database support you want, and the path.

For MySQL you would add


--with-mysql=/usr \

The %build section will look something like this:


./configure --prefix=/usr \
    --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs \
    --with-config-file-path=/usr/lib \
    --enable-debug=no \
    --enable-safe-mode \
    --with-exec-dir=/usr/bin \
    --with-mysql=/usr \
    --with-system-regex

Once this modification is made then build the binary rpm as follows:
```
rpm -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/mod_php3.spec
```

Then install the rpm


rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/mod_php3-3.0.5-2.i386.rpm

Make sure you restart Apache, and you now have PHP 3 with MySQL support using RPM's. Note that it is probably much easier to just build from the distribution tarball of PHP 3 and follow the instructions in INSTALL.REDHAT found in that distribution.

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