[APP] php 5.4.2 + lighttpd 1.4.29 in FCGI mode, crosscompiled for ARM

viulian · Aug 30, 2011

Update 7 May 2012: New version released, containing PHP 5.4.2 with curl / openssl modules built in (still for armv5). Besides the version number, installation steps remain the same.

Introduction

The web page of the project, containing more information, licenses, configuration fils, list of modules for php and lighttpd, etc is here:
http://hex.ro/wp/blog/php-and-lighttpd-for-android/

It also contains and example, how to install SMF forum onto the phone

Download

This comes with NO WARRANTY. Use it at your own risk!

php-5.4.2_lighttpd_1.4.29_armv5.tar.gz

php-5.3.8_lighttpd_1.4.29_armv5.tar.gz

Installing

After you copy the archive above into the root of your SD Card, installation is easy:

Code:

cd /
tar xf /sdcard/php-5.3.8_lighttpd_1.4.29_armv5.tar.gz
reload-fcgi.sh
reload-lighttpd.sh

Make sure you are on the root file system (/) before executing tar command.

Also, mandatory: rooted phone + busybox + /system partition mounted read only.

Below information is older - which was before the bundle was ready

Coming soon:

(excerpt from phpinfo() now running on my phone)

PHP:

System 		Linux localhost 2.6.32.9-perf #1 PREEMPT Fri Jul 8 13:45:08 2011 armv7l
Build Date 	Aug 30 2011 22:07:32
...
PHP Version						5.3.8 
...
Server API							CGI/FastCGI
Virtual Directory Support			disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path	/system/etc/php
Loaded Configuration File			/system/etc/php/php.ini 
...
_SERVER["_"]	/system/bin/php
_SERVER["FCGI_ROLE"]	RESPONDER
_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"]	lighttpd/1.4.29
_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]	192.168.1.3
_SERVER["GATEWAY_INTERFACE"]	CGI/1.1

I have managed to compile lighttp 1.4.29 with fcgi support as well as php 5.3.8 (both latest version).

All graphics libraries are in as well as SQLite.
I will still have to play with OpenSSL to get it running. Maybe MySQL in the future

It will take a while to set everything up (a web page for source code, wiki on how to install), but we're close to have a fuller Linux experience on Android powered phones.

edude03 · Aug 31, 2011

This would be amazing, I've been hoping for something like this.

Adolf1994 · Sep 2, 2011

wow, I'm really looking forward this

It's cool to have this functionality, cuz sharing files via BT is a pain the ass

krzych · Sep 4, 2011

I'm waiting too. And wish you luck. Thanks for the efforts.

viulian · Sep 5, 2011

Thank you for the kind words

Yes, everything works now, and I've tried out a PHP gallery as well as PHP file editor (so you can edit .php files within Opera connected to local host).

It works. Unfortunately, on my Arc, it takes about 3 seconds to generate a thumbnail of a camera image. Now I understand why the whole thing with Media Server indexing files first time after reboot, when phone is slow and etc .. and why the need that apps have to notify Media Server to index additional files when apps create them. So by the time user gets to open the gallery, their thumbnails are already there (it masks the delay).

I want to try out more scripts and then create an installer for the whole thing. If members here report it works, then I will upload it to the market.

Adolf1994 · Sep 6, 2011

I think I will try a bunch of forum engines.
How many additional modules will there be? ImageMagik is really useful… or at least GD

EDIT: ohh, didn't see OP says all graphic libraries included (^_^; )

krzych · Sep 7, 2011

viulian said:
Thank you for the kind words

We should thank you for your efforts. And we are.

viulian said:
I want to try out more scripts and then create an installer for the whole thing. If members here report it works, then I will upload it to the market.

You can count on me. I'm not a full time PHP developer, but I wrote few little "systems" in "my way" so it should test non-standard approach at least. but I believe you've already tested basic PHP behaviour

By the way - you mentioned something about mysql... I would personally prefer PostgreSQL, but I do not know anything about a way it's written so theoretically it can be harder to move to arm platform. Postgres is more flexible in many ways, and sometimes (I've heard) a way faster because of simplicity of mysql.

But if anything will be problematic with sql, I can always fall back to sqlite

viulian · Sep 9, 2011

Update:

libcurl won't be bundled (PHP will be compiled without --with-curl argument).

It seems that libcurl has a dependency on libc - and it tries to load libc.so causing php executable to crash.

Output from strace:

Code:

open("/system/lib/libc.so", O_RDONLY)   = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=273912, ...}) = 0
close(3)                                = 0
--- {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0xfde0004} (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Segmentation fault

Adolf1994 · Sep 10, 2011

that's really sad. cURL is sooo cool. (´Д`)
but so far you always found a way to make things work and I hope the same will apply to this as well.
If you have an idea that would work, then will this released later? or you let us play with the cURL-less boundle?

krzych · Sep 12, 2011

I won't mind lacking of cURL. We have wget onboard for simple downloads. For more sophisticated actions android isn't the best platform

viulian · Sep 16, 2011

Here's the info.php generated using lighttpd / php statically built for Android:

info.php.zip

I've been on a trip with limited access to internet, and so far I managed to find a fix for lighttpd which, when statically built, would not load the modules in the correct order. It was a mess to use

I've documented it here: http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2343

ImageMagick is not ported yet (just standard gd as you will see). I'm tempted to port ImageMagick also, since it seems that batch operations are faster with it than with the built in gd (and on my Arc, generating the thumbnail of a camera taken photo takes about 3 seconds, which is slow).

So far I've tested fotogallery and monoedit (to edit php files on the phone using any browser) and they work fine.

Please expect updates

soon.

viulian · Sep 19, 2011

I've just managed to cross-compile ImageMagick for Android, and it takes mogrify about 4.2 seconds (on my Arc) to create a 120x90 px thumbnail for a 1.8Mb photo from the camera.

Code:

[root@arc]/sdcard/DCIM/100ANDRO# time mogrify -path thumbs -thumbnail 120x90 DSC_0172.jpg

real    0m4.176s
user    0m3.950s
sys     0m0.130s

Also, each executable has about 5.3Mb when statically linked (convert, mogrify, etc...) which makes the ImageMagick bundle to around 57Mb in total (which is huge).

Thus, no ImageMagick for now

waiting for better hardware.

krzych · Sep 22, 2011

When will you release any alpha to allow us killing it?

viulian · Sep 22, 2011

I'm working on a web page on my blog where I'll present everything - and will post an update here. If not later tonight, then tomorrow I'll release it.

For now it is compiled for armv5 CPUs (meaning it will work on many phones, even older and slower ones). I've tested it on a Sony X10 Mini (MSM7227, 600Mhz, ArmV5) and Sony Arc (MSM8255, 1Ghz, ArmV7) and works a treat!

Also installed SMF (Simple Machines Forum with sqlite) and it works.

krzych · Sep 23, 2011

Great

. I'll try it as soon as you publish it

viulian · Sep 23, 2011

krzych said:
Great . I'll try it as soon as you publish it

Please check first post

and let me know! I've just released it.

dateno1 · Sep 25, 2011

i think max request size is too small

it will make 413 error when try to attach file

default value is 2Gb but i think viulian set too small value (even i can't attache 250kb jpg

)

if someone want to increase it

add this lines on your lighttpd.conf
server.max-request-size=10240
server.network-backend=”writev”
server.upload-dirs=( “/sddata/www/tmp” )

size=kb
dirs=must same as upload_tmp_dir on your php.ini

there are my config files

viulian · Sep 25, 2011

Thank you for the updates

Both php and lighttpd come with the default values - I did not change anything ... (in an attept to offer as much as possible the Linux experience with them, when you have to reconfigure things).

The only change I did was to set the temp folder for php to /data/local/tmp (although your suggestion to use the /sdcard might work out better in case of a lot of uploads since the /data space is limited compared to /sdcard).

dateno1 · Sep 25, 2011

i also think sdcard is better but /sdcard can't save permission and ownner

it's big secure hole

i think sd-ext is best

dateno1 · Sep 25, 2011

i compile the execwrap

using by gcc for android (you can download from here (you can extract from main files from https://market.android.com/details?id=com.n0n3m4.gcc4droid&feature=more_from_developer)

you can find documents about execwrap from lighty's site

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