Update to: Building PHP 5

this post is an update to: Building Apache 2 and Php 5 from source

after building apache and php following the steps described in the link above, i noticed that when trying to access a mysql database from a php script that the mysqli was not available. the problem was that i did not configure php correctly. i have fixed that with the steps below.

i have included the php build section for context. the only changes are in the parameters to the configure script.


configure and build PHP. configure with Apache 2 and MySQL support.

since apache was built from source, the steps below will match the path for apxs.

cd ../php-NN
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs 

            --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql 

            --with-mysqli=mysqlnd
make

make test

make install