PHP Manual . ... Installation . Next . This section contains notes and hints specific to installing PHP on Linux distributions. Many Linux distributions have some sort of package installation, such as RPM. This can assist in setting up a standard configuration, but if you need to have a different set of features (such as a secure server, or a different database driver), you may need to build php and/or your webserver. ... Unix/HP-UX installs . ... Unix/Mac OS X installs ...