Instructions on how to compile PHP 7.2.2 from source on Ubuntu 17.10 machines. This will also include instructions on how to configure the machine for Nginx.
These instructions are ideal for those who want to run PHP in production. This version of PHP lacks intrusive packages like Suhosin. Also, you don't have install any packages like php-json, php-mysql, or php-common/php-cli.
Instead, you have 1 PHP binary, and a PHP FPM binary.
The PHP binaries will be installed in a bin directory off of the ~/ directory.
mkdir -p ~/bin/
This will allow you to use type php anywhere and the version of PHP we're compiling
will be first on the list - and the first one to be run
Open the file ~/.bashrc and add the following to the end of it
cat >> ~/.bashrc
Now, paste the following into your terminal
# add local bin directory
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
Install the following packages. These are needed for PHP to communicate with MySQL, Postgres, composer, and Nginx.
sudo apt-get install autoconf build-essential curl libtool \
libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev nginx openssl \
pkg-config zlib1g-dev libargon2-0-dev argon2 \
libsodium-dev
If you do not plan on installing MySQL, then skip this step
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
If you don't plan on installing PostgreSQL then skip this step.
# I like to add a postgres user (but, this is optional)
sudo adduser postgres
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.6 postgresql-client-9.6 postgresql-contrib-9.6 libpq-dev
For some reason, Debian based distros don't report the correct location of openSSL headers. IF you do not install the package pkg-config PHP looks in the wrong location for the headers. This symlink fixes that.
sudo ln -s /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/curl /usr/include/curl
As of the time of this, PHP 7.2.2 was the latest PHP available.
NOTE: this installs PHP in the user's local bin directory, not globally!
# create the Download directory
mkdir -p ~/Downloads/
# change to the Downloads directory and fetch the PHP 7.2 tarball
cd ~/Downloads;
wget http://us3.php.net/get/php-7.2.2.tar.xz/from/this/mirror -O php-7.2.2.tar.xz
tar -xf php-7.2.2.tar.xz
cd php-7.2.2
IF YOU INSTALL MYSQL, ADD THIS TO THE FOLLOWING LINES FROM THIS SCRIPT
--enable-mysqlnd \
--with-pdo-mysql \
--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd \
IF YOU INSTALL POSTGRES, ADD THIS THE FOLLOWING LINES FROM THIS SCRIPT
--with-pdo-pgsql=/usr/bin/pg_config \
OPTIONAL BUILD OPTIONS & INSTALLS
Install the ZIP libraries
sudo apt-get install libzip-dev libzip4
And, add this to the build PHP build script below
--enable-zip \
--with-libzip=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
sudo apt-get install libreadline7 libreadline-dev
And, add the following to the PHP build script below
--with-readline \
Paste the following command into the terminal, hit enter
cat > build_php.sh
Then paste this
#!/bin/sh
INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/bin/php7
mkdir -p $INSTALL_DIR
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
--enable-bcmath \
--enable-fpm \
--with-fpm-user=www-data \
--with-fpm-group=www-data \
--disable-cgi \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-shmop \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-sysvmsg \
--enable-sysvsem \
--enable-sysvshm \
--with-zlib \
--with-curl \
--with-pear \
--with-openssl \
--enable-pcntl \
--with-password-argon2 \
--with-sodium
# press ctrl+c to exit out of cat
Remember, PHP will be installed in the home directory.
sh build_php.sh
make
make install
Copy the php-7.2.2/php.ini-development file from the source directory to the ~/bin/php7/lib/ directory, and rename the file to php.ini
cp php.ini-development ~/bin/php7/lib/php.ini
cd ~/bin/php7/lib;
You'll need to change a few settings
Change your timezone
[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = America/Chicago
The MySQL socket PDO connects to (if MySQL is running locally)
; Default socket name for local MySQL connects. If empty, uses the built-in
; MySQL defaults.
; http://php.net/pdo_mysql.default-socket
pdo_mysql.default_socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
PHP-FPM fix (You will most likely have to add this to the file)
[php-fpm]
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0:
You need to create a php-fpm.conf file to use Nginx.
cd ~/bin/php7/etc/; mv php-fpm.conf.default php-fpm.conf
cd ~/bin/php7/etc/php-fpm.d/; mv www.conf.default www.conf
In your favorite editor, open the www.conf file, and change the user and group from nobody to www-data (the user for nginx). THIS SHOULD BE DONE FOR YOU JUST DOUBLE CHECK TO MAKE SURE IT'S SET
...
user = www-data
group = www-data
...
IF YOU WANT TO USE SOCKETS INSTEAD OF TCP PORT 9000
change listen from
listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
to
listen = /var/run/php-fpm.sock
also, uncomment out the listen.ower, listen.group, & listen.mode variables
listen.owner = www-data
listen.group = www-data
listen.mode = 0660
ADD PHP TO YOUR PATH
Assuming you'll be logged into your server not as root, create symbolic links to the PHP binaries in ~/bin
cd ~/bin
ln -s php7/bin/php php
ln -s php7/bin/php-config php-config
ln -s php7/bin/phpize phpize
ln -s php7/bin/phar.phar phar
ln -s php7/bin/pear pear
ln -s php7/bin/phpdbg phpdbg
ln -s php7/sbin/php-fpm php-fpm
You'll have to start php-fpm manually to get it working with NginX
sudo $HOME/bin/php7/sbin/php-fpm
To run the PHP-FPM process whenever the server reboots run the following command
sudo crontab -eu root
Then add the following line to the crontab
@reboot /home/me/bin/php-fpm
Laravel 5.5 If you're using Laravel 5.5 this is how you start the built in PHP server
php artisan serve --host=your.ip.of.vm --port=8000
PHP CLI SERVER If you want to use the built in PHP web-server
php -S ip.of.your.machine:port_number
Nginx If you're using nginx
cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
Open default and change the root directory to where your code is
root /path/to/your_PHP_project;
Add index.php to the index list
index index.php;
Remove the location section and make the following changes in the FastCGI section
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
# If you want to use a TCP port, un-comment this
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
# ...OR
# If you want to use Unix sockets, un-comment this
# fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
}
So, your conf file should look like this:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
# path to code (index.php should be in this directory)
root /path/to/PHPCODE;
index index.php;
server_name phpdevbox;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
# use this if you want to use TCP:
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
# use this if you want to use sockets
# fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
# deny access to .htaccess files
deny all;
}
}
Nginx should now be serving your files
You'll need to edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and change the line sendfile on; to sendfile off;
What will happen is changes to static files (CSS and Javascript) files won't be updated. Turning off sendfile will cause Nginx to serve the file via a different method and the new file's changes will be displayed immediately.
If you are developing on VirtualBox and want to use this setup for development, heres how to set up the virtual machine.
Again, this will be for an Ubuntu server. We will mount a directory on your harddrive and sync it to a directory on the virtual machine.
Insert the guest additions CD image, then run this on the Linux VM
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
sudo /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
sudo adduser PUT_YOUR_USERNAME_HERE vboxsf
sudo adduser www-data vboxsf
Power off the virtual machine, add a shared directory, then reboot your VM
The shared directory will be located at /media/sf_SHARED_DIRECTORY_NAME