Ubuntu & PHP5 installation/configuration

[poobear]

Hi all,

 

I am trying to setup a web page that requires various PHP extension installed. I have used this before on Windows IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5.

 

It requires GD, IMAP (just to mention a few. I know in Windows you need to specify the folder that the extensions are installed within the php.ini file.

 

I have found a folder

 

 

/usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs

 

 

But that appears to be a red herring. Can anyone point me in the correct direction and also if I need to specify the folder location at all on Ubuntu.

 

Al

[trq]

PHP will be configured to load extensions properly out of the box on Debian based systems, you do however have to install extensions as seperate packages.

 

See....

 

apt-cache search php

 

To see what extensions are available, then install them using....

 

sudo apt-get install php5-gd php5-imap

 

Don't forget to update your apt cache firstly.

 

sudo apt-get update

[JREAM]

I can't remember but you can install GD this way:

sudo apt-get install php5-gd

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

 

But i installed PHP with:

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

 

and GD and a ton of mods were included.

 

The php INI file is I believe here:

/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini