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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 on Alpine Linux
Installing from packages on Arch Linux
Installing from packages or ports on OpenBSD
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Apache httpd 2.x on Unix systems
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LiteSpeed Web Server/OpenLiteSpeed Web Server on Unix systems
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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
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Running PHP on the command line on Windows systems
Installation on Cloud Computing platforms
Azure App Services
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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
Introduction to PIE
Runtime Configuration
The configuration file
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How to change configuration settings
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