update OS, difficult?

[JohanSki]

Hi guys,

I'm about to purchase a VPS with Plesk 12, but at the moment the only available CentOS version is 6.
This comes bundled with PHP 5.3, while I need at least PHP version 5.4. I think CentOS 7 has PHP 5.4?

I want to use CentOs 7. Is it difficult to update from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7? Can someone point me to the steps I have to take in order to achieve this?

Many thanks in advance!

 

[atomicturtle]

The upgrader for that is still in development. You can follow the progress here: http://seven.centos.org/

If you're looking for PHP 5.4, I put together an installer that allows you to run multiple versions of PHP here. It supports concurrent installs of PHP 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?293750-PHP-Panda!-Multi-PHP-installer-for-Plesk

 

[JohanSki]

Actually I'm looking for something very simple, since this is all quite new to me.

I'm looking for some sort of "manual" that says "do this", "now type this" and so on...

Is it optionally possible to stick to CentOS 6 and only update PHP? Can that be done from within Plesk?

 

[IgorG]

Is it optionally possible to stick to CentOS 6 and only update PHP? Can that be done from within Plesk?

Use this solution - http://kb.odin.com/118378 or solution from Atomic - http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?293750

 

[JohanSki]

Thanks. By the way, in the first link I read about "Parallels Plesk Automation". Is that something different then Plesk Panel? Is it like a separate software package?

 

[IgorG]

Thanks. By the way, in the first link I read about "Parallels Plesk Automation". Is that something different then Plesk Panel? Is it like a separate software package?

More details about PPA - http://odin.com/products/plesk-automation/

 

[JohanSki]

Thanks... allright, so they're 2 different things.