[HLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 - is it a stable LAMP environment?

[Andrew Hodgson]

Andy Smith wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:29:23AM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
>> I need to get up and running a web server with a recent version of
PHP 5.2, and a relatively recent Apache.  >We use RedHat as a distro at
work, however, even in RHEL5 the PHP version is ancient and not working
with many >apps.  We can upgrade that package, but there is no point in
then getting the RedHat license.

>Why do you need the absolute latest version of PHP?  Is there some
killer new feature you require?

5.1 isn't the best version around (although the version in RHEL/CentOS5
seems to work reasonably well.  However, I have had two instances of it
failing quite dramatically, causing me to have to upgrade.  In one case,
the program was tested on 5.2.4, and nobody had checked which version we
were using ourselves, causing me to have to find an alternative version.
As I want to keep with a secure/packaged environment, I don't want to
put myself in this situation again.  However, do a Google for
RHEL/CENTOS PHP5, and you will find a lot of unhappy punters.

>For me, having a packaged, secure and manageable (which may mean using
the distribution the users are more >familiar with) setup is far more
important than having the latest point release.

Quite.  However, in my environment, it is only really me getting into
the nitty gritty, and I can manage both distros ok, though if someone
else was interested in this, I would want to keep it to one distro, and
show them as much as I could in that distro.  

Andrew.