Upgrading Process

Download the latest php source, currently at version 5.2.5, from php.net.

wget http://us2.php.net/distributions/php-5.2.5.tar.bz2

Unpack the PHP source.

tar -jxvf php-5.2.5.tar.bz2

Change directory to php-5.2.5/sapi

cd php-5.2.5/sapi

Download the latest PHP LSAPI source, currently at version 4.4, from litespeedtech.com

wget http://www.litespeedtech.com/packages/lsapi/php-litespeed-4.4.tgz

Unpack the PHP LSAPI source.

tar -zxvf php-litespeed-4.4.tgz

Change directory to the parent directory. You should now be in the base directory of the PHP source

cd ..

Run:

touch ac*
./buildconf --force

Configure PHP source for compile. Run ./configure --help for all options. The below options are enough to support Gallery running on a PostgreSQL database.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5 --with-litespeed \  
--with-config-file-path=../php --with-pgsql --with-exif --enable-bcmath \
--with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-gettext

Compile PHP.

make

Change directory to the fcgi-bin folder in your Litespeed webserver installation.

cd /usr/local/lsws/fcgi-bin

Move the current lsphp binary.

mv lsphp lsphp.old

Copy the new lsphp from the source PHP source tree.

cp ~/php-5.2.5/sapi/litespeed/php ./lsphp

Test the new lsphp binary. Notice (litespeed) in the output.

# ./lsphp -v
PHP 5.2.5 (litespeed) (built: Dec 31 2007 00:56:37)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies

We compiled PHP to look in ../php for its configuration file. This corresponds to the PHP folder in the base of the litespeed webserver installation. This is where you should have your php.ini file. If you need a default php.ini copy php.ini-recommended from the based of the PHP source tree.

Reference: http://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php?id=litespeed_wiki:php:lsapi