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Hey guys,

Recently I wanted to give php 5.3.1 a go but without interferring with my current setup, so I choosed to run it as fcgi.
In order to do that I wanted to compile php from source, enabling the modules I needed (gd with jpg support), bmath, pdo, pdo_mysql (for magento) and so on

here we go:
1. go to php site and download your version
2. upload to your server and unarchive it somewhere
3. go using putty or something similar to where are the files extracted, enter the source directory
4. I used this command, change it per your needs:
./configure –enable-bcmath –enable-calendar –enable-fastcgi –disable-cli –enable-ftp –enable-gd-native-ttf –enable-libxml –enable-magic-quotes –enable-mbstring –enable-soap –enable-sockets –prefix=/usr/local/php-5.2.13-fcgi –with-curl=/opt/curlssl/ –with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib –with-jpeg –with-png-dir=/usr/lib –with-libdir=lib64 –with-gd –with-mm –with-mcrypt=/opt/libmcrypt/ –with-mysql=/usr –with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock –with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config –with-openssl=/usr –with-openssl-dir=/usr –with-zlib –with-zlib-dir=/usr –enable-pdo –with-pdo-sqlite –with-sqlite –with-pdo-mysql=/usr –with-pdo-sqlite –enable-zend-multibyte –with-freetype-dir=/usr –with-gettext –with-ttf –enable-force-cgi-redirect –enable-sysvsem –enable-sysvshm
5. make
6. make install

make sure you rename and copy the development php.ini to the lib/php.ini