Installing Zabbix 1.8.19 From Source on Debian with PHP Frontend and HTTPS (LAMP Stack)

We have a Zabbix v1.8.X (with MySQL) server hosted on a Debian Squeeze VM. This VM is being migrated to Debian Wheezy, and therefore requires Zabbix to be moved as well.

However, due to security related issues Zabbix packages were removed from Wheezy.

So, what we are going to do is to install Zabbix 1.8.19 from source, and restore the database backup we have created on a Squeeze VM. Continue reading