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This article comes with a full reference on how to compile from source latest Apache 2.0.53 server, including support for SSL, PHP 5.0.3 as a module, and MySQL 4.1.10 database on a Linux. It was fully tested under SUSE Linux 9.1, SUSE Linux 9.2 and Fedora Core 3, but shall work with any Linux distribution (only on Debian you will have to change RPMs for proper deb packages).

Today, when almost every Linux distribution comes with a binary form of Apache 2.0.x, PHP 4.3.x and MySQL 4.0.x, it may seem a bit unnecessary to compile these, but, if you want some special configuration, latest components, or simply tune performance of your Apache, PHP and MySQL, compilation from source is the only possibility.

Basic system description:

PHP 5.0.3 will be compiled with support for: bz2, cpdflib, ctype, curllib, dom, ftp, gd2, freetype2, gettext, libiconv, libxml, mbstring, mysql, openssl, pcre, posix, session, SimpleXML, SPL, SQLite, tokenizer, xml, and zlib.

Apache 2.0.53 will be compiled with support for mod_access, mod_auth, mod_auth_digest, mod_deflate, mod_env, mod_headers, mod_setenvif, mod_ssl, mod_mime, mod_imap, mod_alias and mod_rewrite.

I've created html2pdf PHP class, which allows one-click conversion of XHTML to PDF. It is an extension of FPDF class, found on http://www.fpdf.org.

Basic HTML2PDF features:

• support for bold text, italics, underlined text.
• support for headlines <h1>, <h2>, <h3> and <h4>.
• support for linked and embedded images.
• basic support for tables.
• full support for lists <li>.
• full support for <blockquote>.
• support for pseudo-tags <red>, <blue>.
• <pre> will be displayed using Courier font, other text with Times New Roman font.
• support for <br>, <br /> and <p>.
• support for <hr> and <hr />.
• exported PDF filename is created by ascii characters of article title.
• temporary files are deleted after 60 minutes.
• document header is created with article title, article URI, author, and publishing date.
• document footer is created with current and total page numbers.
• built-in support for iconv (character conversions).
• supplied fonts Times a Courier, in CP1250 encoding (can be used for text in iso-8859-1, iso-8859-2, cp1250, and cp1252, with iconv).