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Compile PHP 7.3.13 on CentOS 7 with OCI8 and MongoDB extension.

#php #mongodb #linux #webdev

First Install Development Tools on CentOS 7.

yum group install "Development Tools"
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Download the latest stable PHP version 7.3.13 source code from its website.

cd /usr/src/
wget https://www.php.net/distributions/php-7.3.13.tar.gz
tar xvf php-7.3.13.tar.gz
cd php-7.3.13
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“configure” is a script designed to aid a program to be run on a wide number of different computers. This will automatically use your system variables to configure and ready the source for your VPS. When it is done it will generate a file called Makefile with all the info in it so define your required parameters while configuring it.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php7313 --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php7313/etc --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/php7313/etc/conf.d --includedir=/usr/include/php7313 --with-libdir=lib64 --disable-debug --with-pic --disable-rpath --without-pear --with-bz2 --with-freetype-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-xpm-dir=/usr  --without-gdbm --with-gettext --with-gmp --with-iconv --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-openssl=yes --with-pcre-regex --with-zlib --with-layout=GNU --enable-fpm --with-fpm-user=nginx --with-fpm-group=nginx --enable-exif --enable-sockets --enable-shmop --enable-calendar --with-libxml-dir=/usr --enable-xml --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --with-gd=shared --enable-bcmath --with-xmlrpc=shared --enable-wddx=shared --with-xsl=shared,/usr --with-curl=/usr --with-tidy=shared,/usr --with-icu-dir=/usr --enable-json --enable-dom --enable-fileinfo --enable-posix --enable-intl --enable-zip --enable-pdo --enable-xmlreader --enable-xmlwriter --enable-soap --with-pear --with-ldap=/usr --with-mysqli -with-pdo-mysql --with-pdo-sqlite --with-gd
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You may face multiple errors during compilation. Resolve the Dependencies first.

configure: error: libxml2 not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.

yum install -y  libxml2-devel
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configure: error: Cannot find OpenSSL’s 

yum install openssl-devel
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configure: error: Please reinstall the BZip2 distribution

yum install -y  bzip2-devel
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checking for cURL 7.15.5 or greater… configure: error: cURL version 7.15.5 or later is required to compile php with cURL support.

yum install -y  curl-devel
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configure: error: jpeglib.h not found.

yum install -y  libjpeg-devel
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configure: error: png.h not found.

yum install -y libpng-devel
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configure: error: xpm.h not found.

yum install libXpm-devel
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configure: error: freetype-config not found.

yum install -y freetype-devel
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configure: error: Unable to locate gmp.h

yum install gmp-devel
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configure: error: Unable to detect ICU prefix or /usr/bin/icu-config failed. Please verify ICU install prefix and make sure icu-config works.

yum install libicu-devel
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configure: error: Cannot find ldap.h

yum install openldap openldap-devel
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configure: error: Cannot find libtidy

yum install libtidy-devel
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configure: error: xslt-config not found. Please reinstall the libxslt >= 1.1.0 distribution

yum install -y libxslt-devel
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configure: error: Please reinstall the libzip distribution

cd /usr/src/
    (Download, compile and install )
wget https://nih.at/libzip/libzip-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libzip-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd libzip-1.2.0
./configure
make
make install

cd /usr/src/php-7.3.13
Continue Configuration process again.
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configure: error: off_t undefined; check your library configuration

# Add below line in /etc/ld.so.conf file.
vim  /etc/ld.so.conf
    /usr/local/lib64
    /usr/local/lib
    /usr/lib
    /usr/lib64

(Now update the configuration )

# ldconfig -v
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/usr/local/include/zip.h:59:21: fatal error: zipconf.h: No such file or directory

cp /usr/local/lib/libzip/include/zipconf.h /usr/local/include/zipconf.h
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Finally, Build part has been completed.

Build complete.
Don't forget to run 'make test'.
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You are now ready to compile the source. To compile it run the below command. This will compile the source output a lot of rubbish to your console. Just go ahead and let it finish. It will take time if you won’t mention “-j” option. Increase the number according to your VPS CPU core available. This will reduce the compiling time.

make -j4
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When it is done, you should be ready to install it. Make will now follow the instructions in the Makefile to install the compiled package.

make install
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( PHP Installation part has been completed. )

Now Configure PHP and PHP-FPM file.

First copy **php.ini **file from its source folder. It also might be on the PHP installed folder.

cp /opt/src/php-7.3.13/etc/php.ini-development /usr/local/php7313/etc/php.ini
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Create SymLink:

ln -s /usr/local/php7313/bin/php /usr/local/bin/php73
ln -s /usr/local/php7313/bin/pecl /usr/local/bin/pecl73
ln -s /usr/local/php7313/bin/php-config /usr/local/bin/php-config73
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PHP-FPM Config Files:

cd /usr/local/php7313/etc/php-fpm.d/
mv www.conf.default www.conf
mv /usr/local/php7313/etc/php-fpm.conf.default /usr/local/php7313/etc/php-fpm.conf
vim /usr/local/php7313/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
[www]
listen = /usr/local/php7313/var/run/php7313-fpm.sock
listen.mode = 0666
user = nginx
group = nginx
listen.owner = nginx
listen.group = nginx
pm = dynamic
pm.max_children = 128
pm.start_servers = 20
pm.min_spare_servers = 5
pm.max_spare_servers = 35
pm.max_requests = 10000
rlimit_files = 1024
slowlog = log/$pool.log.slow

cat /usr/local/7313/etc/php-fpm.conf | grep -v ";"
[global]
include=/usr/local/php7313/etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf
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PHP-FPM Systemd Service setup:

copy php-fpm service file from the source folder.

cp /usr/src/php-7.3.16/sapi/fpm/php-fpm.service  /usr/lib/systemd/system/php73-fpm.service
vim /usr/lib/systemd/system/php73-fpm.service
[Unit]
Description=The PHP FastCGI Process Manager
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
PIDFile=/usr/local/php7313/var/run/php7313-fpm.pid
ExecStart=/usr/local/php7313/sbin/php-fpm --nodaemonize --fpm-config /usr/local/php7313/etc/php-fpm.conf
ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR2 $MAINPID
PrivateTmp=true
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

systemctl daemon-reload
 ln -s /usr/local/php7313/sbin/php-fpm /usr/sbin/php73-fpm
 systemctl start php73-fpm
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Now Install MongoDB Package:

PECL is a repository for PHP Extensions, providing a directory of all known extensions and hosting facilities for downloading and development of PHP extensions.

pecl73 install mongodb
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Now add “extension=mongodb.so” line on php.ini file.

vim /usr/local/php7313/etc/php.ini
    extension=mongodb.so
php73 -m | grep mongodb
mongodb
systemctl restart php73-fpm
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Install OCI8 Package:

Visit below website and download two packages “instantclient-basic” and “instantclient-devl” according to your system architecture.

https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/instant-client/linux-x86-64-downloads.html

cd /usr/src
wget  https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/195000/oracle-instantclient19.5-basic-19.5.0.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
wget https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/195000/oracle-instantclient19.5-devel-19.5.0.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall oracle-instantclient19.5-basic-19.5.0.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall  oracle-instantclient19.5-devel-19.5.0.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm

pecl73 install oci8
( Type below mentioned path during installation. )
instant,/usr/lib/oracle/19.5/client64/lib
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Now again add extension on php.ini file.
vim /usr/local/php7313/etc/php.ini
    extension=oci8.so

systemctl restart php73-fpm
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Now Install Nginx and Configure:

yum install nginx
vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/abc.com.np.conf

server {
    listen         80 default_server;
    listen         [::]:80 default_server;
    server_name    bdn.com.np www.abc.com.np;
    root           /var/www/abc.com.np;
    index          index.html;

location ~* \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/usr/local/php7313/var/run/php7313-fpm.sock;
    include         fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
  }
}

mkdir -p /var/www/abc.com.np
vim /var/www/abc.com.np/index.php
    <?php
    phpinfo();
    ?>

nginx -t
systemctl restart nginx
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Now check for the PHP Version and the installed Extension. They should be listed there.

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