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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="description" content="Installing PHP4 on Fedora"> <meta name="keywords" content="php,php4,php5,fc6,fc5,fc4,src,recompile,downgrade,apache,http,linux,fedora,httpd"> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) 2008 Mauriat Miranda"> <meta name="author" content="Mauriat Miranda"> <title>PHP4 on Fedora</title> <style type="text/css">@import "resource.css";</style>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-310280-1"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-310280-1'); </script> </head> <body> <h1>PHP4 on Fedora</h1> <h4>Mauriat Miranda (<a href="https://www.mjmwired.net/contact/">https://www.mjmwired.net/contact/</a>)</h4> <h4>Other <a href="https://www.mjmwired.net/resources/">Guides/Resources</a></h4> <h4>Published: 7 April 2006 (<i>updated: 23 June 2008</i>)</h4> <div class="archive"> <p><b>NOTE:</b> The content of this page may be outdated. Links may not be valid and the steps detailed may no longer work. This page is saved for archival purposes only.</p> </div> <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5258443501063629" data-ad-slot="5426699573" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <h3>Installing PHP4 on Fedora</h3> <p>This guide shows how to install PHP4 on Fedora Core 6 (FC6) using a repackaged source RPM. Some PHP applications are not compatible with PHP5, hence the need for this guide.</p> <p><b>Installing PHP4 on Fedora Core 5</b>: These same steps will work on Fedora Core 5 (FC5).</p> <p><b>Installing PHP4 on Fedora Core 4</b>: These same steps will work on Fedora Core 4 (FC4) with some very minor differences.</p> <p><b>NOTE:</b> These builds have not been tested on PPC architecture. These RPMS apply to i386 and x86_64 architecture.</p> <p><b>NOTE:</b> These instructions were meant for Fedora Core 6 (FC6) and older. There are listed below <tt>SRC.RPM</tt> for Fedora 7, Fedora 8 and Fedora 9. Please take note of minor differences between versions.</p> <span style="color:#f00;font-weight:bold;"><u>NOTE:</u> These files are provided for testing purposes only. They are NOT validated for security and hence should NOT be used on a production server.</span> <hr> <h3>Removing PHP5</h3> <p>All previously installed <b>PHP5 RPM's must FIRST be removed</b> either through <tt>yum</tt> or manually. <b>Note</b> that neither method will remember which parts of PHP were previously installed.</p> <p>Through <tt>yum</tt> (preferred method):</p> <pre>[root@charon ~]# yum remove php php-common</pre> <p><b>Note</b>: FC5 and FC4 users will not have the <tt>php-common</tt> package.</p> <p>Manually make sure to get <b>every</b> RPM:</p> <pre>[root@charon ~]# rpm -qa | grep php</pre> <p>If there are any components remaining remove them manually using: <tt>rpm -e</tt>.</p> <hr> <h3>Modified SRC Package</h3> <p>The <tt>php4.src.rpm</tt> that is provided here is the same source as is provided in Fedora Core 3 Legacy (<a href="http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/3/updates/SRPMS/" target="_blank">http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/3/updates/SRPMS/</a>). However there are some minor modifications made in order for it to compile in GCC4.x (used by FC4, FC5 and FC6). The only differences are listed below:</p> <ul> <li>Patch to compile: <tt>php-4.3.6-xelement.patch</tt></li> <li>PHPT test removed for FC4: <tt>ext/dba/tests/dba_db4.phpt</tt></li> <li>PHPT test removed for FC5: <tt>ext/pspell/tests/01pspell_basic.phpt</tt></li> </ul> <p>Presently this should be compatible in features and functionalities across most Fedora releases.</p> <pre>[Right-Click] and Save Based on: version 4.3.11-2.8.4.legacy <a href="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.src.rpm">php-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.src.rpm</a> 25-Oct-2006 21:52 4.9MB Based on: version 4.3.11-2.8 <a href="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.src.rpm">php-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.src.rpm</a> 13-Mar-2006 19:40 4.9MB</pre> <p><b>Do not link to these files, they are not in their permanent location!</b></p> <p><b>Updates:</b><br> <em>Fedora 7</em> - <tt><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php-4.3.11-2.8.5.mjm.fc7.src.rpm">php-4.3.11-2.8.5.mjm.fc7.src.rpm</a></tt><br> <em>Fedora 8</em> - <tt><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php-4.3.11-2.8.6.mjm.fc8.src.rpm">php-4.3.11-2.8.6.mjm.fc8.src.rpm</a></tt><br> <em>Fedora 9</em> - <tt><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php-4.3.11-2.8.6.mjm.fc9.src.rpm">php-4.3.11-2.8.6.mjm.fc9.src.rpm</a></tt></p> <hr> <h3>Compile</h3> <p>To compile the <tt>SRC.RPM</tt> have all the dependancies regardless if they will be used or not. If any dependancies are missed it will complain in the next step.</p> <pre>[root@charon ~]# yum install apr-devel apr-util-devel libc-client \ postgresql beecrypt-devel elfutils-devel mysql-devel postgresql-devel \ httpd-devel net-snmp-devel libc-client-devel aspell-devel unixODBC-devel \ w3c-libwww-devel</pre> <p>Compile the RPM. (PHP5 <i>must be removed before this step</i>):</p> <pre>[root@charon ~]# rpmbuild --rebuild php-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.src.rpm</pre> <p><b>NOTE:</b> If most likely will have errors similar to the following:</p> <pre>001+ PHP Warning: mime_magic: type regex BEGIN[[:space:]]*[{] application/x-awk invalid in Unknown on line 0</pre> <p>This will happen for users with the <tt>file</tt> RPM newer than version 4.16. (Thanks to <a href="https://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2006/04/07/php4-on-fedora-core-5/#comment-461">Alex Dupay</a>).</p> <pre>[mirandam@charon ~]$ rpm -q file file-4.17-8</pre> <p>To fix this, open <tt>/usr/share/file/magic.mime</tt> in a text editor (gedit, kate, nano, etc) and comment out line 273:</p> <pre><b>/usr/share/file/magic.mime</b> Line 273: From: 0 regex BEGIN[[:space:]]*[{] application/x-awk To: #0 regex BEGIN[[:space:]]*[{] application/x-awk</pre> <p>Recompile the SRC.RPM. All the RPM's will be located in: <tt>/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/</tt></p> <hr> <h3>Pre-Compiled Binaries</h3> <p><b><u>NOTE:</u></b> Precompiled binaries WILL NOT be gauranteed to be up to date (below). The RPM's for FC5 are already out of date.</p> <p>The following precompiled binaries RPM's for Fedora Core currently providing . <b>Do not link to these files, they are not in their permanent location!</b></p> <p>Fedora Core 6 - <b>FC6</b> - <b>i386</b>, compiled with <b>GCC 4.1</b></p> <pre> <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm..></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:02 1.4M <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-debuginfo-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-debuginfo-4.3.11..></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:04 5.1M <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-devel-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-devel-4.3.11-2.8..></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:04 404k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-domxml-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-domxml-4.3.11-2...></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:04 52k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-gd-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-gd-4.3.11-2.8.4...></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:04 105k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-imap-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-imap-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:04 51k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-ldap-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-ldap-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:04 34k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-mbstring-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-mbstring-4.3.11-..></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:05 908k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-mysql-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-mysql-4.3.11-2.8..></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:05 36k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-ncurses-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-ncurses-4.3.11-2..></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:05 40k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-odbc-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-odbc-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:05 42k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-pear-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-pear-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:05 349k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-pgsql-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-pgsql-4.3.11-2.8..></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:05 51k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-snmp-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-snmp-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:05 27k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc6_i386/php-xmlrpc-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm">php-xmlrpc-4.3.11-2...></A> 25-Oct-2006 22:05 55k </pre> <p>Fedora Core 5 - <b>FC5</b> - <b>i386</b>, compiled with <b>GCC 4.1</b></p> <pre> <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm..></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 1.4M <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-debuginfo-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-debuginfo-4.3.11..></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 5.1M <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-devel-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-devel-4.3.11-2.8..></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 403k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-domxml-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-domxml-4.3.11-2...></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 51k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-gd-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-gd-4.3.11-2.8.1...></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 103k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-imap-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-imap-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 50k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-ldap-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-ldap-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 33k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-mbstring-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-mbstring-4.3.11-..></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 907k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-mysql-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-mysql-4.3.11-2.8..></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 35k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-ncurses-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-ncurses-4.3.11-2..></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 40k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-odbc-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-odbc-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 41k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-pear-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-pear-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 349k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-pgsql-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-pgsql-4.3.11-2.8..></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 51k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-snmp-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-snmp-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 27k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_i386/php-xmlrpc-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.i386.rpm">php-xmlrpc-4.3.11-2...></A> 03-Apr-2006 22:05 54k </pre> <p>Fedora Core 5 - <b>FC5</b> - <b>x86_64</b>, compiled with <b>GCC 4.1</b></p> <pre> <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm..></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:28 1.5M <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-debuginfo-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-debuginfo-4.3.11..></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:31 5.4M <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-devel-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-devel-4.3.11-2.8..></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:31 402k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-domxml-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-domxml-4.3.11-2...></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:31 54k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-gd-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-gd-4.3.11-2.8.1...></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:32 104k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-imap-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-imap-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:32 50k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-ldap-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-ldap-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:32 34k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-mbstring-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-mbstring-4.3.11-..></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:32 910k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-mysql-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-mysql-4.3.11-2.8..></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:32 36k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-ncurses-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-ncurses-4.3.11-2..></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:32 41k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-odbc-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-odbc-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:32 42k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-pear-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-pear-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:32 348k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-pgsql-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-pgsql-4.3.11-2.8..></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:33 51k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-snmp-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-snmp-4.3.11-2.8...></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:33 27k <A HREF="http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mirandam/resources/php4_fc5_x86_64/php-xmlrpc-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.x86_64.rpm">php-xmlrpc-4.3.11-2...></A> 08-Jul-2006 14:33 53k </pre>  <hr> <h3>Installation</h3> <p>Manually install all the RPM's that the system requires. For <i>example on <tt>i386</tt></i>:</p> <pre>[root@charon i386]# rpm -ivh php-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm \ php-domxml-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm \ php-gd-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm \ php-mysql-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm \ php-pear-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm \ php-xmlrpc-4.3.11-2.8.4.mjm.i386.rpm</pre> <p><b>NOTE:</b> The <tt>php</tt> and <tt>php-pear</tt> RPM's <b>MUST be installed at the SAME</b>. Most other RPM's can be installed separately.</p> <p><b>If RPM's were compiled</b>, then ALL dependancies will be met. It is recommended to remove any unnecessary RPM's (ex: <tt>postgres</tt>).</p> <p><b>If RPM's were downloaded</b>, then it is required to manually determine dependancies.</p> <p><i>Other Possible Idea</i>: Using <tt>yum localinstall filename.rpm</tt>, it is possible for <tt>yum</tt> to grab dependancies automatically. However on testing, this has <i>not been very reliable!</i></p> <hr> <h3>Updates</h3> <p>Updating through <tt>yum</tt> will update PHP4 to PHP5. The following changes are required to prevent <tt>yum</tt> from doing so:</p> <pre>EDIT: /etc/yum.conf ADD at the end of the file: exclude=php* </pre> <p>Presently, to maintain compatibility no updates on this page will be provided outside of any officially updated release by Redhat/Fedora or in the event of a security advisory. It is not recommended to rely on this page or any information provided here for production servers.</p> <hr> <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5258443501063629" data-ad-slot="6814328088" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <h3>More Information</h3> <p>Most other ideas are available on the guide: <a href="https://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-php4-fc4.html">PHP4 on Fedora Core 4</a> <p>Special Thanks to Jim Walters (jimw[at]<a href="http://www.bugopolis.com" target="_blank">bugopolis.com</a>) who provided the initial help on this guide.</p> <hr> <div id="helpout"> <p>Comments, suggestions, questions or any feedback welcome for this page or any of my <a href="https://www.mjmwired.net/resources/">Resources</a>. 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