You can enable this module by creating a symbolic link from ${PREFIX-php}/conf/php5.sample/mapscript.ini to ${PREFIX-php}/conf/php5/mapscript.ini. #ln -fs ${PREFIX-php}/conf/php5.sample/mapscript.ini \ ${PREFIX-php}/conf/php5/mapscript.ini If you plan to use PHP mapscript extension with a chrooted httpd, make sure to copy the libs needed by mapscript.so file binary from ${LOCALBASE}/lib, but also the projection definitions from libgeotiff and proj packages to the chroot: # mkdir -p ${PREFIX-php}/${LOCALBASE}/share/{epsg_csv,proj} # cp ${LOCALBASE}/share/epsg_csv/* ${PREFIX-php}/${LOCALBASE}/share/epsg_csv # cp ${LOCALBASE}/share/proj/* ${PREFIX-php}/${LOCALBASE}/share/proj