Installing WHMCS on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

Or, if you prefer: "WHMCS versus PHP." Blogged for the next sysadmin searching Google.

$DAYJOB recently acquired WHMCS to help automate virtual server provisioning, billing, and so on. According to everything I've read, WHMCS runs just fine on FreeBSD, so I installed the prerequisites on a 9.0-i386 machine. As with any server for PHP-based Web sites, I verified that the server processed PHP with a simple phpinfo() page. I then grabbed the WHMCS tarball (no link, you must be a customer...