Updating non-packaged PHP

[Alan Dayley]

Thank you, James and James.

Alan


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:57 PM, James Dugger <james.dugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Alan,
>
> Try here.
>
> https://webtatic.com/packages/php53/
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:17 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There are compatibility problems between PHP 5.2 and 5.3.  Some of your
>> code may require updating.  Generally for that sort of thing I'd take an
>> image of the server in question and do the update on the image, qa the heck
>> out of it, have the fixes done as needed, and when I was confident, go
>> forward.  Or, I would build a new system with the desired versions, and do
>> the same with the code.
>>
>> This kind of legacy maintenance is the nightmare that sysadmins have to
>> deal with regularly.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Alan Dayley <adayley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have inherited administration of a dedicated server running CentOS
>>> 5.2. It is serving three live websites, among other services. I need to
>>> update PHP from 5.2.x to 5.3 on this server.
>>>
>>> "No problem!" I thought, "I'll just fire up yum and see what is what."
>>>
>>> PHP is not in the package management system. It is in the yum exclusion
>>> list, which I overrode but still have no reference to PHP at all in any
>>> operation coming back from yum. Yet PHP is working on the system. Installed
>>> in some manual process, I assume.
>>>
>>> Now I am in fear of breaking things since wandering in the filesystem
>>> without package management to guide me is outside of my comfort zone.
>>>
>>> Am I right to be in fear? Do you have a good reference on how I could
>>> proceed? How would you proceed?
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
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