Zend Server is a complete, Oracle-enabled, enterprise-ready Web Application Server for running and managing PHP applications that require a high level of reliability, performance and security.

PHP applications using Zend Server can connect to Oracle databases for extreme scalability, availability and security. Zend Server couples the latest Oracle Database driver for PHP, OCI8 1.3, with Oracle's Instant Client libraries to provide an unparalleled out-of-box experience for the PHP Oracle user, either on Windows, Oracle Enterprise Linux, or other operating systems.

Recent contributions from Oracle included in the open source PHP OCI8 1.3 extension used by Zend Server add new features for scalability and availability. OCI8 easily handles tens of thousands of concurrent connections with Oracle 11g Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP). Also transparently enhanced in OCI8 1.3 was integration with Oracle's Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Data Guard technologies, increasing the benefits of scalability and high availability.

Zend Server can be installed using one of these three methods:

• Using Oracle's Unbreakable Linux Network. ULN subscribers can install Zend Server by subscribing to the "Enterprise Linux 5 Add ons (i386)" or "Enterprise Linux 5 Add ons (x86_64)" channels and installing the zend-server-repo RPM. Zend Server can then be installed:

      # up2date zend-server-repo
      # yum install zend-server-php-5.2
      

• Using Oracle's free, public Yum Repository. Follow the steps to enable the Yum repository given in public-yum.oracle.com; edit your new repository configuration file and enable the "Addons" channel. For example:

      # vi /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el5.repo
  

  and in the section with the heading "[el5_addons]" enable the channel:

      enabled=1
  

  Then install Zend Server with:

      # yum install zend-server-repo
      # yum install zend-server-php-5.2
  

• Or, downloading Zend Server directly from Zend.com.

After the installation of Zend Server is complete, its configuration console can be accessed at https://localhost:10082/ or http://localhost:10081/.

Full support for applications and production environments running on Oracle Enterprise Linux and Zend Server is available via Oracle (for Oracle Enterprise Linux) and Zend (for Zend Server).

Download Zend Server from Zend.com