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Installing/Configuring LiteSped w/ PHP

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1.0 INSTALLING LITESPEED/PHP

1.1 Installing LiteSpeed with CHRoot

1. /usr/sbin/useradd -g HTTPD -s /bin/false LSWS
2. mkdir -p /chroot/lsws
3. cd /usr/src
4. wget http://www.litespeedtech.com/packages/3.0/lsws-3.3.24-ent-i386-linux.tar.gz
5. tar -zxvf lsws-3.3.24-ent-i386-linux.tar.gz
6. cd lsws-3.3.24
7. (DOWNLOAD AND WGET A NEW trial.key)
8. ./install.sh
   • Do you agree with above license? Yes
   • Destination [/opt/lsws]: /chroot/lsws
   • Chroot Path /chroot
   • User name [admin]: admin
   • Password: 123456 (change with your own admin password)
   • Retype password: 123456
   • User [nobody]: LSWS (use a non-system user that doesn’t have a shell access and home directory)
   • Group [nobody]: HTTPD (group the webserver will be running as)
   • HTTP port [8088]: 80
   • Admin HTTP port [7080]: 7080
     Don’t forget, both these ports should be enabled in the firewall
   • Setup up PHP [Y/n]: Y
   • Suffix for PHP script(comma separated list) [php]: php
   • Would you like to change PHP opcode cache setting [y/N]? N
   • Would you like to install AWStats Add-on module [y/N]? N
   • Would you like to import Apache configuration [y/N]? N
   • Would you like to have LiteSpeed Web Server started automatically when the machine restarts [Y/n]? Y
   • Would you like to start it right now [Y/n]? Y

1.2 Installing PHP for LiteSpeed

1. wget http://us2.php.net/get/php-5.2.9.tar.gz/from/us.php.net/mirror
2. tar -zxvf php-5.2.9.tar.gz
   MAIL PATCH
   • cd /usr/src
   • wget http://choon.net/opensource/php/php-5.2.9-mail-header.patch
   • cd php-5.2.9
   • patch -p1 < ../php-5.2.9-mail-header.patch

   SUHOSIN PATCH

   • cd /usr/src
   • wget http://download.suhosin.org/suhosin-patch-5.2.9-0.9.7.patch.gz
   • wget http://download.suhosin.org/suhosin-0.9.27.tgz
   • gunzip suhosin-patch-5.2.9-0.9.7.patch.gz
   • cd php-5.2.9
   • patch -p 1 -i ../suhosin-patch-5.2.9-0.9.7.patch
   • phpize
   • ./configure
   • make
   • make install
3. cd /usr/src/php-5.2.9/sapi
4. wget http://www.litespeedtech.com/packages/lsapi/php-litespeed-4.9.tgz
5. tar -zxvf php-litespeed-4.9.tgz
6. cd ..
7. touch ac*
8. ./buildconf –force
   – IF ERROR ON ./buildconf:
   ————————–
   install autoconf-2.13
   ————————–
   wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.13.tar.gz
   tar zfvx autoconf-2.13.tar.gz
   cd autoconf-2.13
   ./configure
   make
   make install
   cd ..
   ./buildconf –force

Depending on your install, you will need to install packages/sources. This list cover most of the common ones needed just so you don’t get error on install.

The most important to make sure you include is –with-litespeed

Compile and Install…

Now that we have PHP done, lets get the new binary moved over:

• cd /opt/lsws/fcgi-bin
• mv lsphp lsphp.old
• cp /usr/src/php-5.2.9/sapi/litespeed/php ./lsphp
• (RESTART LSWS)

2.0 CONFIGURING SERVICES

2.1 Configuring LiteSpeed with CHRoot
Because we are running in a CHRoot Environment now, we need to copy over the needed binaries for PHP.

2.2 Configuring PHP for LSWS CHRoot

Find the following and set the socket location…

2.3 Configuring MySQL for LSWS CHRoot

Find and edit MySQL so that it sets the sock in the CHRoot:

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