Custom PHP 5.3.1 with APC and XDEBUG on (Dreamhost) Shared Host

I’ve recently been setting up my new dreamhost for symfony projects deployment and the only thing the default PHP is missing is the support for APC (alternate php cache). So after looking at the dreamhost wiki I cleaned up and added some features to the one of the install scripts. Here it is for your/mine (future) commodity.

#!/bin/sh
# update 16.2.2010
# @author Marco Bernasocchi 
# - Added OPENSSL LIBMCRYPT LIBTOOL and a promt for installing XDEBUG
#   (still uses XDEBUG 2.05, which has basic PHP 5.3.1 support. 2.1.0 is on its way)
# - removed unsupported php configure switches
# - disabled --with-xsl, if you want to use it you'll probably need to install
#   libxslt (https://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/) version 1.1.0 or greater.
# - sets the ini files into the install directory instead than on cgi-bin
# - to add more domains just copy the cgi binary to the new domain
#   cp "$PHP_BIN_DIR/php-cgi" "$NEW_CGI_BIN_DIR/php.cgi" and modifiy the .htaccess
#Script for a minimal PHP 5.3.x install with APC
#
#- Prompts for the domain to build for
#- PHP configure line contains only valid PHP5 options
#- Displays colourful status messages
#- Many build messages, which aren't helpful to most people, are now suppressed
#- Procedurised, making it cleaner and easier to follow
#
#The only things you may want to change in here are marked with "@todo"s
#
#Derived form the original PHP 5.3 install script at
#https://wiki.dreamhost.com/Installing_PHP5
#
#@author Dan Bettles 
#Exit on error
set -e
clear
echo -n "Enter the domain for which you want to build PHP and press [ENTER]: "
read DOMAIN
echo -n "Enable XDEBUG (y|n): "
read ENABLEXDEBUG
#===============================================================================
#@todo Update versions, if necessary
M4="m4-1.4.13"
AUTOCONF="autoconf-2.65"
OPENSSL="openssl-0.9.8l"
CURL="curl-7.20.0"
LIBMCRYPT="libmcrypt-2.5.8"
LIBTOOL="libtool-2.2.6b"
PHP="php-5.3.1"
APC="APC-3.1.3p1"
XDEBUG="xdebug-2.0.5"
#@todo Update install paths, if necessary
WEB_ROOT="$HOME/$DOMAIN/web"
CGI_BIN_DIR="$WEB_ROOT/cgi-bin"
HTACCESS="$WEB_ROOT/.htaccess"
INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/mycompiles"
BUILD_DIR="$INSTALL_DIR/build"
DOWNLOADS_DIR="$INSTALL_DIR/downloads"
PHP_BASE_DIR="$INSTALL_DIR/$PHP"
PHP_BIN_DIR="$PHP_BASE_DIR/bin"
PHP_EXTENSIONS_DIR="$PHP_BASE_DIR/extensions"
PHP_CONFIG_DIR="$PHP_BASE_DIR/etc/php5/config"
PHP_INI="$PHP_CONFIG_DIR/php.ini"
#@todo Alter features, if necessary
PHP_FEATURES="--prefix=$PHP_BASE_DIR
 --with-config-file-path=$PHP_CONFIG_DIR
 --with-config-file-scan-dir=$PHP_CONFIG_DIR
 --bindir=$PHP_BIN_DIR
 --enable-zip
 --with-xmlrpc
 --with-freetype-dir=/usr
 --with-zlib-dir=/usr
 --with-jpeg-dir=/usr
 --with-png-dir=/usr
 --with-curl=$PHP_BASE_DIR
 --with-gd
 --enable-gd-native-ttf
 --enable-ftp
 --enable-exif
 --enable-sockets
 --enable-wddx
 --enable-sqlite-utf8
 --enable-calendar
 --enable-mbstring
 --enable-mbregex
 --enable-bcmath
 --with-mysql=/usr
 --with-mysqli
 --without-pear
 --with-gettext
 --with-pdo-mysql
 --with-openssl=$PHP_BASE_DIR
 #--with-xsl=$=$PHP_BASE_DIR
 --with-mcrypt=$PHP_BASE_DIR"
#===============================================================================
#@param string $1 Message
function echoL1 () {
    echo -e "n33[1;37;44m$133[0;0;0mn"
}
#@param string $1 Message
function echoL2 () {
    echo -e "n33[0;37;44m$133[0;0;0mn"
}
#@param string $1 URL
#@param string $2 Output directory
function downloadTo () {
    wget -c $1 --directory-prefix=$2
}
#@param string $1 TAR filename
#@param string $2 Output directory
function untarTo () {
    cd $2
    tar -xzf $1
    cd -
}
#@param string $1 Source directory
#@param string $2 Output directory
#@param string $3 configure arguments
function configureAndMake () {
    cd $1
    COMMAND="./configure --quiet --prefix=$2 $3"
    if [ $1 = "$BUILD_DIR/$OPENSSL" ];then
      #special command for OPEN SSL
      COMMAND="./config --prefix=$2 $3"
    fi
    echo "$COMMAND"
    eval $COMMAND
    make --quiet
    cd -
}
#@param string $1 Source directory
#@param string $2 Output directory
#@param string $3 configure arguments
function makeAndInstall () {
    configureAndMake $1 $2 "$3"
    cd $1
    make install --quiet
    cd -
}
#@param string $1 Directory
function mkdirClean () {
    rm -rf $1
    mkdir -p $1
}
#@param string $1 Message
function echoWarning () {
    echo -e "n33[1;37;41m$133[0;0;0mn"
}
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
export PATH="$PATH:$PHP_BIN_DIR"
echoL1 "-> DOWNLOADING..."
mkdirClean $BUILD_DIR
echoL2 "--> Downloading $M4..."
downloadTo "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/$M4.tar.gz" $DOWNLOADS_DIR
untarTo "$DOWNLOADS_DIR/$M4.tar.gz" $BUILD_DIR
echoL2 "--> Downloading $AUTOCONF..."
downloadTo "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/$AUTOCONF.tar.gz" $DOWNLOADS_DIR
untarTo "$DOWNLOADS_DIR/$AUTOCONF.tar.gz" $BUILD_DIR
echoL2 "--> Downloading $OPENSSL..."
downloadTo "https://www.openssl.org/source/$OPENSSL.tar.gz" $DOWNLOADS_DIR
untarTo "$DOWNLOADS_DIR/$OPENSSL.tar.gz" $BUILD_DIR
echoL2 "--> Downloading $CURL..."
downloadTo "https://curl.haxx.se/download/$CURL.tar.gz" $DOWNLOADS_DIR
untarTo "$DOWNLOADS_DIR/$CURL.tar.gz" $BUILD_DIR
echoL2 "--> Downloading $LIBMCRYPT..."
downloadTo "https://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mcrypt/$LIBMCRYPT.tar.gz" $DOWNLOADS_DIR
untarTo "$DOWNLOADS_DIR/$LIBMCRYPT.tar.gz" $BUILD_DIR
echoL2 "--> Downloading $LIBTOOL..."
downloadTo "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/$LIBTOOL.tar.gz" $DOWNLOADS_DIR
untarTo "$DOWNLOADS_DIR/$LIBTOOL.tar.gz" $BUILD_DIR
echoL2 "--> Downloading $PHP..."
downloadTo "https://www.php.net/get/$PHP.tar.gz/from/this/mirror" $DOWNLOADS_DIR
untarTo "$DOWNLOADS_DIR/$PHP.tar.gz" $BUILD_DIR
echoL2 "--> Downloading $APC..."
downloadTo "https://pecl.php.net/get/$APC.tgz" $DOWNLOADS_DIR
untarTo "$DOWNLOADS_DIR/$APC.tgz" $BUILD_DIR
if [ $ENABLEXDEBUG = "y" ]; then
  echoL2 "--> Downloading $XDEBUG..."
  downloadTo "https://xdebug.org/files/$XDEBUG.tgz" $DOWNLOADS_DIR
  untarTo "$DOWNLOADS_DIR/$XDEBUG.tgz" $BUILD_DIR
fi
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
echoL1 "-> BUILDING..."
mkdir -p $PHP_BASE_DIR
echoL2 "--> Building $M4..."
makeAndInstall "$BUILD_DIR/$M4" $PHP_BASE_DIR
echoL2 "--> Building $AUTOCONF..."
makeAndInstall "$BUILD_DIR/$AUTOCONF" $PHP_BASE_DIR
echoL2 "--> Building $OPENSSL..."
makeAndInstall "$BUILD_DIR/$OPENSSL" $PHP_BASE_DIR
echoL2 "--> Building $CURL..."
makeAndInstall "$BUILD_DIR/$CURL" $PHP_BASE_DIR "--enable-ipv6 --enable-cookies
 --enable-crypto-auth --with-ssl"
echoL2 "--> Building $LIBMCRYPT..."
makeAndInstall "$BUILD_DIR/$LIBMCRYPT" $PHP_BASE_DIR "--disable-posix-threads"
echoL2 "--> Building $LIBTOOL..."
makeAndInstall "$BUILD_DIR/$LIBTOOL" $PHP_BASE_DIR
echoL2 "--> Building $PHP..."
#Fixes compile error
export EXTRA_LIBS="-lresolv"
makeAndInstall "$BUILD_DIR/$PHP" $PHP_BASE_DIR "$PHP_FEATURES"
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
echoL1 "-> INSTALLING PHP..."
mkdir -p -m 0755 $CGI_BIN_DIR
mkdir -p -m 0755 $PHP_CONFIG_DIR
cp "$PHP_BIN_DIR/php-cgi" "$CGI_BIN_DIR/php.cgi"
cp "$BUILD_DIR/$PHP/php.ini-production" $PHP_INI
mkdir -p $PHP_EXTENSIONS_DIR
echoL2 "--> Building $APC..."
APC_SOURCE_DIR="$BUILD_DIR/$APC"
cd $APC_SOURCE_DIR
$PHP_BIN_DIR/phpize
configureAndMake $APC_SOURCE_DIR $PHP_BASE_DIR "--enable-apc --enable-apc-mmap
 --with-php-config=$PHP_BIN_DIR/php-config"
cp modules/apc.so $PHP_EXTENSIONS_DIR
echo "extension=$PHP_EXTENSIONS_DIR/apc.so" > $PHP_CONFIG_DIR/apc.ini
cd -
if [ $ENABLEXDEBUG = "y" ]; then
  echoL2 "--> Building $XDEBUG..."
  XDEBUG_SOURCE_DIR="$BUILD_DIR/$XDEBUG"
  cd $XDEBUG_SOURCE_DIR
  $PHP_BIN_DIR/phpize
  configureAndMake $XDEBUG_SOURCE_DIR $PHP_BASE_DIR "--enable-xdebug
   --with-php-config=$PHP_BIN_DIR/php-config"
  cp modules/xdebug.so $PHP_EXTENSIONS_DIR
  echo "zend_extension=$PHP_EXTENSIONS_DIR/xdebug.so" > $PHP_CONFIG_DIR/xdebug.ini
  cd -
fi
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
if [ -f $HTACCESS ]; then
    HTACCESS_NEW="$HTACCESS.old"
    cp $HTACCESS $HTACCESS_NEW
    echoWarning "--> Copied $HTACCESS to $HTACCESS_NEW"
fi
#The backslash prevents a newline being inserted at the start
HTACCESS_CONTENT="
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler php-cgi .php
Action php-cgi /cgi-bin/php.cgi
#Deny access to the PHP CGI executable and config files

    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from All
    Allow from env=REDIRECT_STATUS
"
#Preserve newlines in the content by quoting the variable name
echo "#######ADDED BY installPHP script" >> $HTACCESS
echo "$HTACCESS_CONTENT" >> $HTACCESS
echoL2 "--> Created $PHP_INI"
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
rm -rf $BUILD_DIR
echo -n "Delete the downloads directory? (y/n): "
read DELETE_DOWNLOADS_DIR
if [ $DELETE_DOWNLOADS_DIR = "y" ]; then
    rm -rf $DOWNLOADS_DIR
fi
echoL1 "DONE"
exit 0