Lightest weight PHP build that still supports WP3

  • As a bit of a performance tuning experiment, I’m trying to compile the lightest weight PHP 5.3.2+PHP-FPM build that will still work with WordPress 3.0. I thought I’d drop a line here to see if there would be any known issues with the following PHP config:

    ./configure --disable-all --enable-fpm --with-mysql --enable-inline-optimization

    Are there any oft-used WP plugins that require other PHP modules (perhaps curl or xml)? Parts of WP that won’t function (i.e. image resizing due to the lack of GD).

    Sure would be cool if the WordPress Requirements page said anything about the required PHP modules to keep full functionality…

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  • I totally agree on beefing up the WordPress Requirements doc. I just finished resolving some issues on a server move. Thumbnails were not being automatically generated and neither I nor the server admin knew why. It was only after a hunt and peck through these support forums that I discovered the GD library requirement.

    Please, guys, do us a favor and list the required modules. You’ve done so well with doc in general but this is an oversight that really should be corrected.

    Thread Starter meekish

    (@meekish)

    Here are the modules that I can remember having to re-enable so far:

    Core
    =======
    * xml (for import, export, xmlrpc api, etc)
    * zlib (for auto-upgrading and web-based plugin installs)
    * gd (for thumbnails, as kchayka said)

    Plugins
    =======
    * sessions (required by wp e-commerce)

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