Installing PHP5 with GD lib @ Leopard

Everyone who are trying to get this done on Leopard’s base PHP5 installation, here’s what you do.

• Open Terminal App
• Write “cd /private/etc” and press return
• Use your favorite text editor to open httpd.conf
• Find this “LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so” and add a “#” (no quotes) at the front of the line to comment out Leopard’s default PHP5 library
• Write “cd /usr/local” and press return
• Write “sudo curl -O http://www2.entropy.ch/download/php5-5.2.5-6-beta.tar.gz” and press return
• Write “sudo tar -xzf php5-*-beta.tar.gz” and press return
• Write “sudo ln -sf /usr/local/php5/entropy-php.conf /etc/apache2/other/+entropy-php.conf” and press return
• (Optional) Write “rm php5-5.2.5-6-beta.tar.gz” and press return to delete the downloaded archive
• Write “sudo apachectl restart” and press return

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