Installation and Configuration

• General Installation Considerations
• Installation on Unix systems
  • Installing from packages on Debian GNU/Linux and related distributions
  • Installing from packages on GNU/Linux distributions that use DNF
  • Installing from packages or ports on OpenBSD
  • Installing from source on Unix and macOS systems
  • CGI and command line setups
  • Apache 2.x on Unix systems
  • Nginx 1.4.x on Unix systems
  • Lighttpd 1.4 on Unix systems
  • LiteSpeed Web Server/OpenLiteSpeed Web Server on Unix systems
  • Solaris specific installation tips
• Installation on macOS
  • Installation on macOS using third-party packages
  • Compiling PHP on macOS
  • Using the bundled PHP prior to macOS Monterey
• Installation on Windows systems
  • Recommended configuration on Windows systems
  • Manual installation of pre-built binaries
  • Installation for Apache 2.x on Windows systems
  • Installation with IIS for Windows
  • Third-party tools for installing PHP
  • Building from source
  • Running PHP on the command line on Windows systems
• Installation on Cloud Computing platforms
  • Azure App Services
  • Amazon EC2
  • DigitalOcean
• FastCGI Process Manager (FPM)
  • Installation
  • Configuration
• Installation of PECL extensions
  • Introduction to PECL Installations
  • Downloading PECL extensions
  • Installing a PHP extension on Windows
  • Compiling shared PECL extensions with the pecl command
  • Compiling shared PECL extensions with phpize
  • php-config
  • Compiling PECL extensions statically into PHP
• Introduction to Composer
• Runtime Configuration
  • The configuration file
  • .user.ini files
  • Where a configuration setting may be set
  • How to change configuration settings