How To php5 as cgi

This is php5 as cgi installation guide.

Tested on FreeBSD 6.0

1. Download php5 archive from www.php.net

2. Untar it into any directory .

3. cd php_dir

4. ./configure \
--enable-force-cgi-redirect \
--prefix=/usr/local/php5 \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php5 \
...
(add here additional options like :
--with-zlib \
--with-iconv=/sw/ \
--without-bundle-libxml \
--with-dom=/sw/ \
--with-libxml-dir=/sw/ \
--with-xsl=/sw/ \
--disable-pear \
--with-gd \
--with-freetype-dir=/sw/lib/freetype2/ \
--with-jpeg-dir=/sw/ \
--with-png-dir=/sw/ \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/ \
--enable-debug \)

2. make install clean

Your php5 now is installed in /usr/local/php5 directory

3. Edit your domain httpd.conf (not /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf)

# ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/admin/domains/www.yourdomain.com/public_html/cgi-bin/

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/php5/bin/

Options +ExecCGI

AddType php5-script .php5
AddHandler php5-script .php5

Action php5-script /cgi-bin/php
RemoveType .php

Save and restart apache. Now all files with .php5 extension are associated with php5

If you get Internal Server Error try following

chown -R admin:admin /usr/local/php5

Thats it.

Make sure that some_file.php5 has exec rights and begins with #!/usr/local/php5/bin/php