Appendix A. SETTING UP PHP 5
All recent major Linux distributions (SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, and Debian among them) come with support for PHP 5. If your distribution doesn't support version 5, the easiest solution is to locate and install an updated Red Hat Package Manager (RPM). Otherwise, you will need to download the PHP source code and configure and install PHP yourself. (If you want to install PHP as a static module, you will also have to download the source code for Apache.) Instructions for compiling PHP are readily available at http://php.net, but taking this route requires familiarity with working from the command line in Linux.
PHP 5 also runs under Windows using Internet Information Server (IIS) or Apache Web Server. Although Windows ...
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