Thanks to everyone for the comments. I have decided to rebuild the test server to more closely match the current production server and be sure to more closely document any changes on the test server so that they can be applied to the production server if needed at the appropriate time. I realized when I saw that test was running CentOS 5.10 and production was running RHEL 6.5 that this had to change. Initially the test server was just a "give me a server to play around with as I redesign the web site layout" as the developers started doing more than simple html/php/perl stuff something needed to change and we needed to be more serious about this. In the past the difference between test and production was mostly what folder www was symlinked to.
Thanks again, Bruce On Sep 22, 2014, at 6:41 PM, Brian Pitts <br...@polibyte.com> wrote: > On 09/22/2014 03:38 PM, Bruce W. Martin wrote: >> I have a server running CentOS 5.10 that we use as a test server for our web >> site. >> The web development team have asked for PHP to be upgraded to version 5.3. >> Since it was available in the CentOS 5.10 repository I was able to oblige. >> Later they are asking that PHP to be updated to 5.5. This is not available >> in the CentOS 5.10 repository or in the CentoOS 6.5 repository. The changes >> in CentOS 7.0 are so fundamentally different that I am just now looking and >> trying to figure out what I have to learn and unlearn to start moving in >> that direction so I have not even looked at what is available there. Looking >> at the php.net site it looks like they have stable versions of PHP 5.3.29, >> 5.4.33, 5.5.17 and 5.6.0. They state that 5.3.29 is the last release in the >> 5.3 series yet even CentOS 6.5 shows php.x86_64 5.3.3-27.el6_5.1 as the >> latest version. Is it reasonable for me to step outside of what is available >> I the repository and install a newer version. Is it likely to play well with >> apache 2.2.3-87 and mysql 5.5.37-1? I have 3 dozen servers and about 300 >> desktops to deal with so it is not like I am overloaded by what appear to be >> the World Class Standards of IT today but it just seems like asking for >> trouble to try accommodate this when Red Hat/CentOS have not yet down so. >> >> What do you think? >> Or should I get a block of cheese to go with this email? > > I recommend upgrading to CentOS 6.5 (it's not a big jump from 5, unlike 7) so > that you can use software collections (aka SCL). These are Red Hat's answer > to the problem you're facing. From the project description: > > "Delivered on a separate life cycle from Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a more > frequent release cadence, Red Hat Software Collections puts the latest stable > open source runtime components, as tested and verified by Red Hat on Red Hat > Enterprise Linux, in the hands of developers faster, accelerating the > creation and deployment of modern web applications" > > Red Hat's SCL 1.2 release includes PHP 5.5. It looks like SCL is rebuilt for > CentOS, although I'm not sure if CentOS has built 1.2 yet. > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/1/html/1.1_Release_Notes/chap-RHSCL.html#sect-RHSCL-Features > > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL > > -- > All the best, > Brian Pitts > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
