In This Tutorial, We will start to install and configure Apache Webserver, PHP and Mysql from Source / tar.gz in O/S OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64 bit O/s
If you are searching how to install apache php and mysql for linux o/s 32bit, please click HERE

So I assume you already have OpenSUSE11 installed, up and running.
This tutorial also can be implemented in other O/S such as : Centos and Fedora or other 64bit Linux O/S.

Login into your server with root access.

Download and Extract All Packages and Dependencies

$cd /root
$vi files.sh
#!/bin/bash
# download and extract all packages and dependencies

cd /root
wget http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.44...
wget http://www.alliedquotes.com/mirrors/apache/httpd/httpd-2.2.14.tar.gz
wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.6.tar.gz
wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8a.tar.gz
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.20.0.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.twaren.net/Unix/NonGNU/freetype/freetype-2.3.12.tar.gz
wget http://mirror.unej.ac.id/cpan/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.609.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.2.43.tar.gz
wget http://openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.7g.tar.gz
wget http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
wget http://www.libgd.org/releases/gd-2.0.35.tar.gz
wget http://www.php.net/distributions/php-5.3.1.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap-2007b.tar.Z

echo "Extracting All Packages "

tar -zxvf mysql-5.1.44.tar.gz
tar -zxvf httpd-2.2.14.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libxml2-2.7.6.tar.gz
tar -zxvf jpegsrc.v8a.tar.gz
tar -zxvf curl-7.20.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf freetype-2.3.12.tar.gz
tar -zxvf DBI-1.609.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libpng-1.2.43.tar.gz
tar -zxvf openssl-0.9.7g.tar.gz
tar -zxvf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
tar -zxvf gd-2.0.35.tar.gz
tar -zxvf php-5.3.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf imap-2007b.tar.Z

Chmod and Execute files.sh

$cd /root
$chmod 755 files.sh
$./files.sh

Install C compiler and Dependencies

$yast -i gcc gcc-c++ ncurses-devel pam-devel automake gettext-tools

Note : you can use yum, apt-get or etc to install c compiler.

Create MySQL user and Compiling MySQL Server

Create user and group mysql with yast

$yast
>> Security and Users >> User and Group Management
>> In Users Section >> Press tab to ADD a new user
>>> Input User Full Name "mysql", Username "mysql", Password and Confirm Password >> OK
>> In Group section >> Press tab to ADD a Group
>>> Input Group Name "mysql" >> OK
>> In users Section >> Edit user "mysql"
>>> In Existing Local User Choose Details Section
>>> Login Shell Change it to "/bin/false"
>>> Default Group Change it to "mysql" >> OK >> OK
>> press f9 to quit yast

Compiling MySQL Server

$cd /root
$cd mysql-5.1.37
$./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql \
--localstatedir=/usr/local/mysql/var \
--with-pthread --with-big-tables
$make && make install

Change mysql dir permission

$chown -R mysql.mysql /usr/local/mysql

Copy mysql cnf files from this directory below to /etc/
and change the file to my.cnf

$cd /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql
$cp my-small.cnf /etc/my.cnf

Install mysql DB

$/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql

Starting mysql server

$/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &

Create mysql root password

$/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'

Compiling OpenSSL 0.9.7g

$cd /root/
$cd openssl-0.9.7g
$./config -fPIC
$make depend
$make install

Add /usr/local/include into ld.so.conf

$vi /etc/ld.so.conf
## add this line below ##
/usr/local/include

Reload ld.so.conf

$ldconfig

Compiling Apache/ HTTPD Web Server

$cd /root
$cd httpd-2.2.14
$./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 \
--enable-so --enable-mods-shared=most \
--enable-ssl=static --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl
$make && make install

Compiling Zlib, FreeType, GD, LibXML2,LIBJPEG, LIBPNG, CURL, DBI

$cd /root
$cd zlib-1.2.3
$./configure --shared && make && make install

$cd ..
$cd freetype-2.3.12
$./configure && make && make install

$cd ..
$cd jpeg-8a
$./configure --prefix=/usr/local  --enable-shared
$make && make install

$cd ..
$cd libpng-1.2.43
$./configure && make && make install

$cd ..
$cd curl-7.20.0
$/configure && make && make install

$cd ..
$cd libxml2-2.7.6
$./configure && make && make install

$cd ..
$cd gd-2.0.35
$./configure --with-freetype=/usr/local \
--with-jpeg=/usr/local/lib \
--with-png=/usr/local/lib
$make && make install

$cd ..
$cd DBI-1.609
$perl Makefile.PL
$make && make install

$cd /root
$mv imap-2007b /usr/local/
$cd /usr/local/imap-2007b
$make lnp EXTRACFLAGS="-fPIC"
$mkdir include lib
$cp src/c-client/*.h include/
$cp c-client/c-client.a lib/libc-client.a
$cp c-client/osdep.h include/
$cp c-client/env_unix.h include/
$cp c-client/linkage.h include/

Compiling PHP

$cd /root
$cd php-5.3.1
$ ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-gd=/usr/local \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local \
--enable-ftp \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local/lib \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local \
--with-curl=/usr/local \
--with-imap=/usr/local/imap-2007b \
--with-imap-ssl=/usr/local/ssl \
--enable-mbstring
$make && make install

Copy php.ini

$cp php.ini-production /usr/local/lib/php.ini

Configure httpd.conf to support PHP

$cd /usr/local/apache2/conf/
$pico httpd.conf

### make sure this line below is already there
LoadModule php5_module        modules/libphp5.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Starting Up Apache and MySQL Webserver

$/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &
$/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

Added Apache and MySQL in Boot.local Init Script

$vi /etc/init.d/boot.local
### Add this line below into boot.local ###
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &

Create a test.php with phpinfo in file

$cd /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
$pico test.php

<? phpinfo(); ?>
## save this file

Or We also can check php result from console

$php -v
PHP 5.3.1 (cli) (built: Mar  3 2010 10:07:54)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies

Open a test.php from your Browser

You can try to access test.php from your browser
Example your server ip address is 10.10.10.10

Http://10.10.10.10/test.php

If browser show like below it's mean you are success configure Apache, PHP and Mysql
Please make sure you need to crosscheck with the PHP ext module such as mysql module, GD etc.