MacOS X Server Update 10.5.7 is not PHP Neutral
Mac OS X Server 10.5.7 Update breaks PHP custom installations.
Apple installs PHP v5.2.8 over your custom PHP installation, and you can know this if you dig from the main article referenced above to the security content of the update.
Here's what I did to alleviate the pain associated with the upgrade:
Before I upgraded, I backed up my configuration information (which I can use to reconfigure PHP if necessary) and current PHP installation so I can downgrade in a hurry if I can't rebuild the new PHP quickly:
I then did the update.
If I were very concerned that PHP weren't working correctly and quickly, I'd have swapped the newly-installed Apple PHP with the old one and set it to running while I rebuilt PHP. I didn't need to do that, though, so I just proceeded with rebuilding and reinstalling 5.2.9, because Apple is already 0.0.1 behind the power curve (and because I was too lazy to go looking for the 5.2.8 tarball).
Once the update was done, I looked at what Apple used to configure php...
...and noticed that it wasn't all that unusual. I then backed up the Apple stuff...
...and grabbed the 5.2.9 PHP tarball from PHP.net, php-ized GD, configured it, made it, and installed it. (Your configure command might look different, of course.)
I then restarted Apache2 with Server Manager and PHP5 was happy again.
Apple installs PHP v5.2.8 over your custom PHP installation, and you can know this if you dig from the main article referenced above to the security content of the update.
Here's what I did to alleviate the pain associated with the upgrade:
Before I upgraded, I backed up my configuration information (which I can use to reconfigure PHP if necessary) and current PHP installation so I can downgrade in a hurry if I can't rebuild the new PHP quickly:
php -i > ~/php-config-2009.04.13
sudo cp /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so.old
sudo cp /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php.old
I then did the update.
If I were very concerned that PHP weren't working correctly and quickly, I'd have swapped the newly-installed Apple PHP with the old one and set it to running while I rebuilt PHP. I didn't need to do that, though, so I just proceeded with rebuilding and reinstalling 5.2.9, because Apple is already 0.0.1 behind the power curve (and because I was too lazy to go looking for the 5.2.8 tarball).
Once the update was done, I looked at what Apple used to configure php...
php -i
...and noticed that it wasn't all that unusual. I then backed up the Apple stuff...
sudo cp /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so.apple
sudo cp /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php.old
...and grabbed the 5.2.9 PHP tarball from PHP.net, php-ized GD, configured it, made it, and installed it. (Your configure command might look different, of course.)
tar xjfp php-5.2.9.tar.bz2
cd php-5.2.9/ext/gd
phpize
cd ../..
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 CFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -no-cpp-precomp" CCFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" LDFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -bind_at_load" ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --disable-dependency-tracking --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-ldap=/usr --with-kerberos=/usr --enable-cli --with-zlib-dir=/usr --enable-trans-sid --with-xml --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --enable-dbx --enable-sockets --with-iodbc=/usr --with-curl=/usr --with-config-file-path=/etc --sysconfdir=/private/etc --with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config --with-mysql=/usr --with-openssl --with-xmlrpc --with-xsl=/usr --without-pear --with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-gd --with-ttf --with-iconv=/usr/local/lib --enable-gd-imgstrttf --enable-gd-native-ttf
(That's all on one line, and note that I'm compiling a universal binary here for four architectures--why, I don't remember, exactly, but you probably won't need anything before "./configure" unless you're compiling for multiple architectures.)
make
make test
sudo make install
I then restarted Apache2 with Server Manager and PHP5 was happy again.
Thanks, as always, for the good info!
Hey! Thanks for letting me know somebody read it and got something from it. I hope it is of some use to you and others.
If nothing else, I've discovered that this 'blog plus Google makes for an awfully convenient way for me to troubleshoot my own problems. When I Google an error or something, sometimes I get my own 'blog in the results... meaning I already solved that one and just couldn't remember that I did.