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Pre-installation notes
The guide bellow is based on the previous guides:

• Hardening guide for Apache 2.2.15 on RedHat 5.4 (64bit edition)
• Hardening guide for MySQL 5.1.47 on RedHat 5.4 (64bit edition)

Installation and configuration phase

1. Login to the server using Root account.
2. Before compiling the PHP environment, install the following RPM from the RHEL 5.4 (64bit) DVD source folder:
   rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh glibc-headers-2.5-42.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh glibc-devel-2.5-42.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh libgomp-4.4.0-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh gcc-4.1.2-46.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh zlib-devel-1.2.3-3.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.x86_64.rpm

3. Download MySQL development RPM from:
   http://download.softagency.net/MySQL/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/
4. Download PHP 5.3.2 source files from:
   http://php.net/downloads.php
5. Copy the MySQL development RPM using PSCP (or SCP) into /tmp
6. Copy the PHP 5.3.2 source files using PSCP (or SCP) into /tmp
7. Move to /tmp
   cd /tmp
8. Install the MySQL development RPM:
   rpm -ivh MySQL-devel-community-5.1.47-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
9. Remove MySQL development RPM:
   rm -f MySQL-devel-community-5.1.47-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
10. Extract the php-5.3.2.tar.gz file:
    tar -zxvf php-5.3.2.tar.gz
11. Move to the PHP source folder:
    cd /tmp/php-5.3.2
12. Run the commands bellow to compile the PHP environment:
    ./configure --with-mysql=/var/lib/mysql --with-libdir=lib64 --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-openssl --with-zlib

    make

    make install

13. Edit using VI, the file /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
    Make sure the following string exists at the end of the LoadModule section:
    LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
    Add the following string, to the end of the AddType section:
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
    Replace the line from:
    DirectoryIndex index.htmlTo:
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
14. Copy the PHP.ini file
    cp /tmp/php-5.3.2/php.ini-development /etc/php.ini
15. Change the permissions on the php.ini file:
    chmod 640 /etc/php.ini
16. Edit using VI, the file /etc/php.ini and replace the following values:
    From:
    mysql.default_host =To:
    mysql.default_host = 127.0.0.1:3306

    From:
    allow_url_fopen = OnTo:
    allow_url_fopen = Off

    From:
    expose_php = OnTo:
    expose_php = Off

    From:
    memory_limit = 128MTo:
    memory_limit = 8M

    From:
    ;open_basedir =To:
    open_basedir = "/www"

    From:
    post_max_size = 8MTo:
    post_max_size = 2M

    From:
    upload_max_filesize = 2MTo:
    upload_max_filesize = 1M

    From:
    disable_functions =To:
    disable_functions = fpassthru,crack_check,crack_closedict,crack_getlastmessage,crack_opendict, psockopen,php_ini_scanned_files,shell_exec,chown,hell-exec,dl,ctrl_dir,phpini,tmp,safe_mode,systemroot,server_software, get_current_user,HTTP_HOST,ini_restore,popen,pclose,exec,suExec,passthru,proc_open,proc_nice,proc_terminate, proc_get_status,proc_close,pfsockopen,leak,apache_child_terminate,posix_kill,posix_mkfifo,posix_setpgid, posix_setsid,posix_setuid,escapeshellcmd,escapeshellarg,posix_ctermid,posix_getcwd,posix_getegid,posix_geteuid,posix_getgid,posix_getgrgid, posix_getgrnam,posix_getgroups,posix_getlogin,posix_getpgid,posix_getpgrp,posix_getpid, posix_getppid,posix_getpwnam,posix_getpwuid,posix_getrlimit,system,posix_getsid,posix_getuid,posix_isatty, posix_setegid,posix_seteuid,posix_setgid,posix_times,posix_ttyname,posix_uname,posix_access,posix_get_last_error,posix_mknod, posix_strerror,posix_initgroups,posix_setsidposix_setuid

    From:
    ;include_path = ".:/php/includes"To:
    include_path = "/usr/local/lib/php;/usr/local/apache2/include/php"

    From:
    display_errors = OnTo:
    display_errors = Off

    From:
    display_startup_errors = OnTo:
    display_startup_errors = Off

17. Run the commands bellow to restart the Apache service:
    /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

18. Remove the PHP source and test files:
    rm -rf /tmp/php-5.3.2
rm -f /tmp/php-5.3.2.tar.gz
rm -rf /usr/local/apache2/lib/php/test
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/php/test

19. Uninstall the following RPM:
    rpm -e libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.8
rpm -e gcc-4.1.2-46.el5
rpm -e libgomp-4.4.0-6.el5
rpm -e gmp-4.1.4-10.el5
rpm -e glibc-devel-2.5-42
rpm -e glibc-headers-2.5-42
rpm -e kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5

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