[dundee] Upgrading PHP version

[chris wyllie]

Scare me?! I'm running for the hills lol.

Erm, thanks a lot for explaining that from source is best avoided. Hmm, I'll
need to see. There's a small chance that the hosting company will do it for
us but probably not.

How do I find out what distro it's running? Is there a command? (I forget)

Thanks again :)

On 12/09/2007, James Le Cuirot <chewi at aura-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I'd avoid building PHP from source at all, if possible. It has so many
> different extensions, many of which you may be using. Each extension
> will likely require some library and its associated headers. Chances
> are you don't have the headers installed and ensuring you have all the
> right ones could prove time consuming. Find out which distro it is and
> then find out if there's a package for the version you need, preferably
> official but unofficial would still be better than building from source
> yourself. Hopefully the extension will have been included in the
> package. Binary distros tend to enable most of the options just in
> case. It's because of things like this that I recommend Gentoo but feel
> free to ignore me there. (-; To give you some idea of how many
> extensions PHP has, check out the number of USE flags Gentoo has for
> it. It's probably has the most of any package in Gentoo. The ones not
> marked with - are the ones I have enabled.
>
> berkdb bzip2 cgi cli crypt ctype curl exif ftp gd gdbm iconv imap json
> mysql mysqli ncurses pcre posix postgres readline reflection session
> simplexml soap sockets spell spl sqlite ssl sysvipc threads truetype
> unicode xml xpm xsl zip zlib (-adabas) -apache2 -bcmath (-birdstep)
> -calendar -cdb -cjk -concurrentmodphp -curlwrappers -db2 -dbase
> (-dbmaker) -debug -discard-path -doc (-empress) (-empress-bcs) (-esoob)
> -fastbuild (-fdftk) -filter (-firebird) -flatfile -force-cgi-redirect
> (-frontbase) -gd-external -gmp -hash -inifile -interbase -iodbc -ipv6
> -java-external -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit -mcve -mhash -msql
> -mssql -nls -oci8 -oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl -pdo -pdo-external
> -pic -qdbm -recode -sapdb -sharedext -sharedmem -snmp (-solid) -suhosin
> (-sybase) (-sybase-ct) -tidy -tokenizer -wddx -xmlreader -xmlrpc
> -xmlwriter -yaz -zip-external
>
> Oh, another thing, I'm not sure about Red Hat or Debian but some
> distros package Apache's mod_php separately. It's essentially a
> different program from the CLI and CGI versions of PHP. Gentoo handles
> them all in the one package (through the apache2, cli, cgi flags) but
> has to build each version in turn.
>
> Hope that didn't scare you too much
> Chewi
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:43:45 +0100
> "chris wyllie" <cgwyllie at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I'm hoping somebody can kinda roughly guide me through upgrading the
> > PHP version on a server via SSH. Currently the server's version is
> > 5.1.6 and I need access to the hooks implemented in version 5.2.x and
> > the APC extension. I think the server is running Red Hat or Fedora
> > but I could be wrong. I know it's not Debian.
> >
> > Is it as simple as untaring the source and the usual
> > configure>make>make install steps or is there more to it? Also, once
> > configure>make>upgraded, is installing the
> > APC extension difficult?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help :) I'd be willing to look at
> > alternatives too if somebody can suggest any.
> >
> >   Chris
>
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