Re: Updating non-packaged PHP

2014-09-03 Thread Alan Dayley
Thank you all for the advice. In this case the solution was to update via WHM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPanel#WHM_.28Web_Host_Manager.29). I had not ever heard of this tool before this situation. A reminder that I am not a real system admin, I just play one. Alan On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:

Re: Updating non-packaged PHP

2014-08-28 Thread Alan Dayley
Thank you, James and James. Alan On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:57 PM, James Dugger wrote: > Alan, > > Try here. > > https://webtatic.com/packages/php53/ > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:17 PM, James Mcphee wrote: > >> There are compatibility problems between PHP 5.2 and 5.3. Some of your >> code

Re: Updating non-packaged PHP

2014-08-27 Thread James Dugger
Alan, Try here. https://webtatic.com/packages/php53/ On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:17 PM, James Mcphee 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

Re: Updating non-packaged PHP

2014-08-27 Thread James Mcphee
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

Updating non-packaged PHP

2014-08-27 Thread Alan Dayley
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 sys