Introduction

The Apache binary package avaiable for CentOS is related to 2.0.xx version. PHP
is avaiable too, but only version 4.xx. Apache Web Server 2.0.xx and PHP 4 are stable
and are good solutions, but for new project PHP 5 is often requested, and Apache 2.2
is a very good choose.

Apache developers say that 2.2.xx version is the best version avaiable.

CentOS 5

You should make sure that you have ProtectBase installed.

Protectbase

yum-protectbase is available in the CentOS 5 repositories:

Introduction.