diff --git a/ci_environment/phpbuild/files/default/definitions/5.2.17 b/ci_environment/phpbuild/files/default/definitions/5.2.17
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..caa72ce7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci_environment/phpbuild/files/default/definitions/5.2.17
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+configure_option "--enable-fastcgi"
+
+configure_option -D "--with-openssl"
+
+configure_option -R "--with-mysql"
+configure_option -R "--with-mysqli"
+configure_option -R "--with-pdo-mysql"
+
+with_pear
+
+install_package "http://museum.php.net/php5/php-5.2.17.tar.bz2"
+install_xdebug "2.1.3"
diff --git a/ci_environment/phpbuild/recipes/default.rb b/ci_environment/phpbuild/recipes/default.rb
index 84f46d075..5ff261cc3 100644
--- a/ci_environment/phpbuild/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/ci_environment/phpbuild/recipes/default.rb
@@ -80,3 +80,12 @@
   group  node.travis_build_environment.group
   source "default_configure_options.erb"
 end
+
+remote_directory "#{phpbuild_path}/share/php-build/definitions" do
+  owner       node.travis_build_environment.user
+  group       node.travis_build_environment.group
+  files_owner node.travis_build_environment.user
+  files_group node.travis_build_environment.group
+  files_mode  "0755"
+  source      "definitions"
+end