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This page describes how to use PHP (v4) with Tomcat (v4 or later). The contents were originally written and sent to the tomcat-dev list by Jean-Frederic Clere (on his vacation, no less ) and Henri Gomez.

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*0. Prerequisites:

• Download PHP (this tutorial was done with PHP 4.3.5)
• Download Tomcat (this tutorial was done with Tomcat 5.0.19)
• Define $JAVA_HOME for your JDK installation
• Define $TOMCAT_HOME for your tomcat installation
• Define $PHP_HOME for your PHP installation
  

*1. Configure PHP Installation:
./configure --with-servlet=$TOMCAT_HOME --with-java=$JAVA_HOME

A jarfile and dynamic library are produced:

• sapi/servlet/phpsrvlt.jar
• libs/libphp4.so

*2. Copy jar to your webapp's or tomcat's common class repository:
cp $PHP_HOME/sapi/servlet/phpsrvlt.jar $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib

*3. Declare PHP servlet and servlet-mapping in your or tomcat's common web.xml:
Copy from $PHP_HOME/sapi/servlet/web.xml servlet and servlet-mapping and paste
into $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web.xml.

*4. Modify your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the dynamic library produced in step 1 above:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PHP_HOME/libs
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

*5. Start tomcat:
$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh.

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