Manually install PHP on Linux and Unix OS

PHP can be installed on UNIX or Linux variants. It requires the following conditions:

Steps to install Apache and PHP 8 on a Linux or Unix machine:

Step 1: unzip and export the downloaded apache tar file

Step 2: Configure Apache Server as follows

cd apache_2.4.x -/configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-so make make install

Step 3: unzip and export the downloaded php tar file

Step 4: If using MySQL database, configure php to work with MySQL as follows

-/configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs  --with-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql make install

Step 5: The php.ini file must be installed and edited according to the configuration

cd php.ini /usr/local/lib/php.ini

Step 6: Edit httpd.conf to tell Apache where to serve and the extension of php files

Step 7: User can add at least one PHP extension directive, followed by a second handler to parse all HTML files into PHP

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

Step 8: restart Server when user changes HTTP or php.ini configuration, server needs to be restarted to load new configuration

Step 9: Create and a php file to test the environment

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