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• Extract the source code to PHP in a work directory
• Patch if needed (that is, patch if building PHP to run with Tomcat version 5 or later)
• Run configure, then make in the top directory of the PHP sources:

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  ./configure --with-servlet=$TOMCAT_HOME --with-java=$JAVA_HOME make

• A jar file and dynamic library are produced from the make: sapi/servlet/phpsrvlt.jar and libs/libphp4.so.
  
• Copy the jar file to your web application's class repository, or, alternately, to Tomcat's common class repository (as is shown here):

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  cp $PHP_HOME/sapi/servlet/phpsrvlt.jar $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib

  
  
• Declare PHP servlet and servlet-mapping in the web applications web.xml file, or in Tomcat's shared web.xml file:
  • Copy from $PHP_HOME/sapi/servlet/web.xml the servlet and servlet-mapping and paste into the file $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web.xml.
    
• Modify your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the dynamic library produced in the first step above:

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  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PHP_HOME/libs export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

  
  

Fedora Core 1 Issues with Tomcat 5.5.9, PHP 4.3.11 and jdk1.5.0_03

This may have just been an issue with the particular system I was building, but I was unable to set $JAVA_HOME, $PHP_HOME, $TOMCAT_HOME, or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH at the command line. The workaround was to edit /etc/profile and add the variables there (i.e., and the line

 JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_03

and add JAVA_HOME to the export variables).

• If make returns an error where javac is not a recognized command, you'll need to patch the Makefile produced by ./configure. Look for "&& javac" and replace it with the full path to javac (i.e., "

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  && /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_03/bin/javac

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• If make returns an error regarding "enum" while trying to build phpsrvlt.jar, you'll need to edit $PHP_HOME/sapi/servlet/servlet.java and replace enum with xenum.
  

Start Tomcat

 $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh.

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