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Installing PHP by Tarball

Here we go!

1. Snag the latest tar from php.net.
2. Run configure, I used

   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php-4.3.2 --with-mysql=/usr --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl-0.9.7b --enable-magic-quotes --enable-sockets --with-curl

3. Run 'make' and 'make install'
4. Run

   libtool --finish /root/src/php-4.3.3/libs

   (Why didn't I run libtool before?)
5. Add

   AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

   to /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf, and while you are at it, make 'index.php' the default index

   DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var

   (look for 'DirectoryIndex' using your editor)

Wait... I just found these instructions... maybe I should have found them earlier!