https://www.slackwiki.com/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Trashbird1240 2026-05-02T08:19:06Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.40.0 https://www.slackwiki.com/index.php?title=Recompile_php_with_mcrypt&diff=254 2009-10-05T16:55:09Z

<p>Trashbird1240: removed note about editing slackbuild</p> <hr /> <div>[[Category:Tutorials]]<br /> PhpMyAdmin (available at [http://www.SlackBuilds.org/ SlackBuilds.org]) works well when you compile PHP with the mcrypt extension. After installing PhpMyAdmin, you may see a warning that it cannot find the mcrypt extension. Unfortunately the official Slackware package does not include this extension. Recompiling PHP is necessary, as is enabling the mcrypt.so extension in /etc/httpd/php.ini. The first step is a little tricky, since compiling PHP requires a little trick: you must compile alpine during the PHP build. It is fairly simple once you have things in place, but this tripped me up when I first tried to recompile PHP.<br /> <br /> == Install mcrypt and libmcrypt ==<br /> <br /> mcrypt is available from [http://www.SlackBuilds.org SlackBuilds.org]. First build and install mcrypt and libmcrypt before compiling PHP.<br /> <br /> == Recompile PHP ==<br /> <br /> Go to a Slackware mirror and download Pat's Slackbuild directory for php from the source/n directory. I used <br /> <br /> &lt;code&gt;# wget --mirror &lt;mirror&gt;/n/php&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> to download the whole directory. You will also need to download the alpine/ directory into the parent of the newly-created php/. In other words, you should have a parent directory with both php and alpine. For example, mine is ~/SlackBuilds/n, where I have two subdirectories: one for alpine/ and one for php/. An alternative to wget is to use a file manager capable of ftp with drag and drop, such as Nautilus.<br /> <br /> '''<br /> Be sure to chmod +x both the alpine and php SlackBuilds before attempting to build.''' If you don't, things may go for quite a while depending on the speed of the machine you're building on before you get an error (and you ''will'' get an error).<br /> <br /> The official PHP SlackBuild includes a configure flag for mcrypt, so there is no need to edit the SlackBuild. You may want to specify a BUILD variable on the command line, so the package does not appear to be official (it is ''not'' official):<br /> <br /> &lt;code&gt;# BUILD=3_&lt;your initials&gt; sudo ./php.SlackBuild&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> === Upgrade PHP ===<br /> Install the new package with upgradepkg. Keep in mind that you will need to repeat this process whenever there is a security alert for php. In that case, download the new source, update the VERSION variable, recompile and upgrade. For this reason, I've kept ~/SlackBuilds/n the way it is with alpine and php subdirectories.<br /> <br /> == Configure PHP ==<br /> <br /> Configuring PHP to use mcrypt is easy: add the line<br /> <br /> &lt;code&gt;extension=mcrypt.so&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> to /etc/httpd/php.ini and then restart apache. Now when you log in to PhpMyAdmin, you should no longer see the warning about mcrypt.</div>

Trashbird1240 https://www.slackwiki.com/index.php?title=User:Trashbird1240&diff=210 2009-06-08T13:37:15Z

<p>Trashbird1240: user page</p> <hr /> <div>Hello Fellow Slackers,<br /> <br /> I am a biology Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Being a Unix-nut, Slackware was the logical choice for me. See my homepage [http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj here] .</div>

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