Custom PHP install

[Johan Mares]

It is easy to install a webserver with SL, but more and more we are 
having trouble because the versions that come with either SL4.4 (PHP 
4.3.9) or SL5.0 (PHP5.1.6) are not recent enough to use current versions 
of third party software (for example Mapserver needs PHP 4.4.6 or 
5.2.1).  I've installed LAMP manually, but that was at home, not for a 
production environment. I would like to keep on using SL, the apache and 
mysql that comes with it are ok too, but what is the best means to 
install a more recent version of PHP (5.2.1 or maybe even the 5.2.3) and 
how do you update/maintain it ? With PHP I am not only referring to the 
PHP module, but also to the PHP-SOAP,
PHP-PEAR, PHP-mbstring, PHP-mcrypt, ...

Johan
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