Installing PHP as an Apache DSO03/15/2001 Also in PHP Admin
Basics: One useful feature provided by the tight integration of
PHP with Apache is the ability to install PHP as a dynamically
loadable Apache module. This is a systems administrator's dream
because it allows developers to upgrade PHP without having to
recompile Apache. If you have ever gone through the 1.5 million
steps required to install ApacheSSL, you can appreciate the
value in this option. For more information on what dynamically
shared objects (DSOs) are, see Apache's online documentation on
the subject. Now let's get started! To compile PHP as a
dynamically loadable module or DSO, you pass the --with-apxs
option to the configure script. If you know the location of the
Apache apxs file, you can supply that to the switch with It's
possible you'll see an error message: configure: error: Sorry, I
cannot run apxs. Either you need to install Perl or you need to
pass the absolute path of apxs by using --with-
apxs=/absolute/path/to/apxs If you get th