I'm fairly new to cPanel and WHM, and recently I installed some things that I need to recompile into PHP. Well, after looking nearly everywhere, I can't find the PHP install directory with the configure and makefiles and such. So I went to WHM and I can install RPMs in there.

Well, it listed a bunch of various php options. Well, I don't get this whole GUI crap, all I know is the ./configure command I need to use to correctly compile with my options, and how to do it that way. So I guess my question is, with cpanel can you still recompile php w/o doing it from within the program itself? And if so how? If not.. how do you do it within the program?

Any help would be great. Thanks.

Log to the shell,
download,
configure --options
make
make install
... done ;)

well yes I could just redownload it :D But was trying to get a grasp on all features within WHM, find out where it stores files, etc. But yes, I have already downloaded it and am ready to go, but was hoping to learn more before I just do it the old way ;)

go into ssh. then type /scripts/easyapache

choose number 5 for advanced. There you can choose which php and apache modules you want installed. This will also upgrade your php, apache, and mysql all in one shot. Theres a reason its called easyapache. Because its so damn easy.

yes, use easyapache or buildapache for the latest version of PHP. It works great, and you don't have to worry about messing up cpanel's inter-workings ;)