Using PHP With Tomcat
This page describes how to use PHP (v4) with Tomcat (v4 or later). The contents were originally written and sent to the tomcat-dev list by Jean-Frederic Clere (on his vacation, no less 
) and Henri Gomez.*
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- 0. Prerequisites:
** Download PHP (this tutorial was done with PHP 4.3.5)
** Download Tomcat (this tutorial was done with Tomcat 5.0.19)
** Define $JAVA_HOME for your JDK installation
** Define $TOMCAT_HOME for your tomcat installation
** Define $PHP_HOME for your PHP installation
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- 1. Configure PHP Installation:
./configure --with-servlet=$TOMCAT_HOME --with-java=$JAVA_HOME
A jarfile and dynamic library are produced:
- sapi/servlet/phpsrvlt.jar
- libs/libphp4.so
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- 2. Copy jar to your webapp's or tomcat's common class repository:
cp $PHP_HOME/sapi/servlet/phpsrvlt.jar $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib
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- 3. Declare PHP servlet and servlet-mapping in your or tomcat's common web.xml:
Copy from $PHP_HOME/sapi/servlet/web.xml servlet and servlet-mapping and paste
into $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web.xml.
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- 4. Modify your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the dynamic library produced in step 1 above:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PHP_HOME/libs
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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- 5. Start tomcat:
$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh.
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Testing:
- Create a file named test.php in the docBase directory of your webapp.
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