[Herefordshire] Re: Upgrading PHP on remote red hat server

[Julian Robbins]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:54:18 +0000, "Ben Stephens"
<foolfodder at gmail.com> said:
> Thanks Julian, that's great,
> 
> I have a few questions to follow on,
> 
> 1. how do I find out what version of redhat i'm running? I know i've
> got a file called vmlinux-2.2.19-6.2.16 which i'm going to assume
> gives the kernel version.

uname -a 
> 
> 2. Change log? Readme file?

Sometimes you will find a file called README - which you should do. Just
bits and pieces that may be useful. This may be in the source files, or
on their site docs.
> 
> I don't seem to have yum, at least, I typed in yum and not much
> happened, no man page either.

REdhat 9 doesnt have it. Fedora does. You can install yum for Redhat I
believe. Someone else can help you better here - i dont use Fedora
> 
> I typed in rpm -q -a and got a list of the installed packages (I
> think) and php didn't seem to be in the list, so can I assume that php
> is installed along with a different package?

difficult to say. Webmin can be useful to see if Apache is configured
with PHP support.


> 
> After some research:
> NSApache-1.0-120 is the installed package which is the webserver. I
> searched for this and I'm fairly sure that this was installed on
> Intel® NetStructure&#8482; 1010/1020 Web Hosting Appliances and from the
> manual on the site it says that the Webserver is Intel's custom
> version of apache which includes PHP, and ssl support. Unfortunately
> they don't seem to have released any updates to this package and have
> stopped supporting the product. This appliance, according to the
> manual, is running a modified version of redhat 6.2.

What are you running it on ? Redhat 6.2 is awfully old now ...

Julian
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Ben
> 
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:41:28 +0000, Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
> > Hi ben
> > 
> > I'm by no means an expert but a couple of comments :-
> > 
> > You would need to 'Upgrade' your rpm with the -u option not -i for install.
> > 
> > Generally the smaller than incremental cahnge the more likely taht
> > something will not break! Going from 4.0.2 to 4.3 may be ok. Going up to
> > a version 5 may be different. You may find that you have linked
> > dependanicies too, ie php 4.3 may only work with apache vers 'X'. These
> > days, 'yum' for redhat/fedora, 'apt-get', or 'urpmi' (Mandrake) can
> > handle dependencies pretty well. If you do the old fashioned rpm -U then
> > you will have to sort out dependencies (if any) yourself.
> > 
> > Regarding file locations, etc. If it's an rpm rolled for your particular
> > distro, ie redhat, fedora and version level, it will be much more likely
> > to be ok. If you goto rpmseek.net or rpm.pbone.net then you can select
> > the rpm from the distro and specific version you have.
> > 
> > More importantly, if in doubt, on a production server, read the change
> > log, and /or readme file. If there are changes to the structure (or a
> > slight change in the config file) than its likely they will be
> > documented fully.
> > 
> > Just in case, you should possibly consider making a backup or an 'image
> > ' of your Linux Distro installation. (like Norton Ghost).
> > 
> > I will be doing some imaging of disks during the next meeting with g4u -
> > more details to follow...
> > 
> > Julian
> > 
> > 
> > Ben Stephens wrote:
> > > i've found an rpm called php-4.3.10-3.2.i386.rpm and put it on the
> > > server, if I type in
> > >
> > > rpm -i php-4.3.10-3.2.i386.rpm
> > >
> > > will that work?
> > >
> > > Is it dangerous? Could it install things to the wrong place, or
> > > overwrite things it shouldn't, i'm not sure how standard the linux
> > > setup is on this box.
> > >
> > > later,
> > > Ben
> > >
> > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:07:09 +0000, Ben Stephens <foolfodder at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Hi Guys,
> > >>I need to upgrade the php installation on a remote linux server and
> > >>don't really no where to start finding out what I need to know to do
> > >>this.
> > >>
> > >>The system has rpm v. 4.0.2 if that's any help but I have no idea how
> > >>to use this, or most of the rest of linuxy type stuff.
> > >>
> > >>Any help / ideas / pointers to places where I can find information
> > >>about this appreciated.
> > >>
> > >>Btw. I've got loads of gmail invites if anyone wants one.
> > >>
> > >>Ben
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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