Distro to run Drupal on

[Todd Cole]

I still have several 10.04 servers that I will need to upgrade soon

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Todd Cole <toddc at azloco.com> wrote:

> Yes as soon as it is patched and considered stable it will be upgraded.
> but you can add a ppa that uses PHP 5.6 now but consider it as untested and
> unstable.
> Ubuntu 14.04 end of life on servers is 04/2019 but i have had very few
> issues upgrading from server LTS 12.04-14.04 the migration usually gets
> better and better. Several desktops have had issues doing 12.04 to 14.04
> upgrade but both had many modifications. Todd
>
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
> http://phpave.com/upgrade-to-php-56-on-ubuntu-1404-lts/
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm looking at Ubuntu 14.04 LTS  And it is running PHP 5.5 which will no
>> longer be supported after June of 2016.  That would be about a year and a
>> half from now.
>>
>> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is supported through Jan or Feb of 2019 or about 4 years.
>>
>> How does this work?  Does someone patch the unsupported PHP, MySql, and
>> Apache or does Ubuntu add the newer version that is supported by their
>> maintainers?  In other words is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS going to always contain
>> PHP 5.5 (and maintain it themselves) or will Ubuntu 14.04 LTS pull in a
>> more recent version of PHP that is still supported by PHP?
>>
>> Thanks!!
>> Keith
>>
>>
>> On 2014-12-09 07:34, James Dugger wrote:
>>
>>> Keith. At work we are currently running Drupal 7.34 on RHEL 6.5. Our
>>> local development vms are running on CentOS of the same version. I
>>> feel your pain however.
>>>
>>> I am looking at Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server to run the LAMP stack needed
>>> for Drupal 8.  I have run Ubuntu for many uses over the past 5 years
>>> and it is a solid server distribution. Ubuntu 's LTS server versions
>>> are outpacing CentOS and even Debian itself as the web server of
>>> choice.  It is the number one choice for servers in an Openstack
>>> deployment. It is the most provisioned server thanks to Vagrant and
>>> Packer.
>>>
>>> Others may disagree but I am seriously considering the move to an
>>> Openstack cloud with our Web servers running 12.04 LTS for Drupal.
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