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I'm not sure how to recompile PHP with OpenSSL? I've been looking around the OpenSSL PHP page and the OpenSSL tutorials but I don't see any openssl.so or php-openssl.so around my server?

Is there a simple package on apt-get channel so I can install it from there?

I just need to recompile PHP with OpenSSL, but I have no idea how to do this.

EDIT: I run a dedicated server and it's Ubuntu 11.10.

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Without knowing your distribution and release, there is no way we could tell you if there is an APT repository that would be appropriate to you. – Zoredache Jan 10 '12 at 20:38
Sorry, check my edit. – Burning the Codeigniter Jan 10 '12 at 21:06
Check that PHP isn't already compiled with OpenSSL - a lot of default installations have it already. Run phpinfo() and check for the 'OpenSSL' section. Second, if you really need to recompile PHP, copy the ./configure command from phpinfo(), and add --with-openssl (or change --without-openssl if it is present). You will need your operating system's Development Tools to compile, plus any additional pre-requisites ('dev' files/headers). It is usually preferable to avoid keeping dev tools on a production box. Finally, reinstall the additional extensions you use. – cyberx86 Jan 10 '12 at 21:54

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For a while PHP has had ssl support compliled into it. No extra modules are needed. Check with phpinfo(). E.g., on Ubuntu 10.04:

$ echo '<?php phpinfo(); ?>' | php 2>&1 |grep -i ssl
Registered Stream Socket Transports => tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls
SSL => Yes
SSL Version => OpenSSL/0.9.8k
openssl
OpenSSL support => enabled
OpenSSL Library Version => OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
OpenSSL Header Version => OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
OpenSSL support => enabled
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libssl1.0.0 or libssl-dev are probably what you're looking for, though I wonder why you'd need to do this?

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