Most of the yum repos doesn’t include PHP5.6.X on current releases for the time being. So if you need PHP5.6.X, you need to compile and build it for your self.
Advise: First of all, you should consider removing php packages from your server before compiling php, but beaware your codes will be visible till you install the compiled version to your server, consider shutting down your apache server for a while.
yum erase php*
Before downloading the code, install “Development Tools” by tiping:
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
and install other related header files:
yum install httpd-devel libtool-ltdl-devel libxml2-devel openssl-devel pcre-devel curl-devel gd-devel mysql-devel libxslt-devel
Download & install libmcrypt
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mcrypt/Libmcrypt/2.5.8/libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz 10 tar zxvf libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz 11 cd libmcrypt-2.5.8 12 ./configure 13 make 14 make install
Download FreeTDS source, don’t use yum to install freetds-devel!
wget ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/current/freetds-current.tar.gz tar zxvf freetds-stable.tgz cd freetds-0.91/ #in my case ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds --enable-msdblib make make install cp include/tds.h /usr/local/freetds/include cp src/tds/.libs/libtds.a /usr/local/freetds/lib echo "/usr/local/freetds/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf echo "export FREETDSCONF=/usr/local/freetds/etc/freetds.conf" >> /etc/profile ln -s /usr/local/freetds/lib /usr/local/freetds/lib64
Download & extract php 5.6.3 release:
wget http://php.net/get/php-5.6.3.tar.gz/from/this/mirror
mv mirror php-5.6.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf php-5.6.3.tar.gz
cd php-5.6.3
./configure \
--with-apxs2 \
--with-curl=/usr/local/lib \
--with-gd \
--with-gettext \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib \
--with-kerberos \
--with-openssl \
--with-mhash \
--with-mcrypt \
--with-mysql=/usr \
--with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config \
--with-pdo-mysql=/usr \
--with-pcre-regex=/usr \
--with-pear \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local/lib \
--with-xsl \
--with-zlib \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib \
--with-iconv \
--enable-bcmath \
--enable-calendar \
--enable-exif \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--enable-soap \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-zip \
--enable-wddx \
--with-libdir=lib64 \
--with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds
Make & Install by typing:
make make install cp php.ini-production /etc/php.ini sed -i 's/;date.timezone =.*/ date.timezone = "Europe/Istanbul"/' /etc/php.ini
Don’t forget to add respective extension to httpd.conf:
echo "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php" >> /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf echo "AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps" >> /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf
and a final configuration:
sed -i 's/DirectoryIndex index.html.*/ DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
please let us know if you find any mistake