This guide will take you through the installation of Apache 2, MySQL 5 and PHP 5 under Sun Solaris Operating System or Solaris Express OS.
This article shows the technical user how to build their own up-to-date copy of PHP5 and integrate it with MySQL5 from Blastwave and the version of Apache2 included with the Solaris OS. However, for those who do not wish to compile any software, and prefer an optimized and high-performing Sun build of these packages, please check out Sun’s “Ready to Run” Cool Stack packages at http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack/index.html and/or http://sunfreeware.com/coolstack.html.
For this exercise, the installation will use the following software:
- Apache as delivered with the Solaris installation
- MySQL 5, from Blastwave.org, using
pkg-getto install it - The latest PHP 5 from php.net, downloaded and compiled
It will be built in 32-bit mode, using a mostly GNU tool chain.