Upgrade - I need help

[John Fleming]

Hi Guys,

I have a VPS running Plesk 9.3.0 in Parallels and I need to upgrade PHP in order to support applications such as Joomla 1.6+

My problem is I have about 40 domains hosted on that server and I am unsure exactly what I need to update and what will break.

Details of my server are below, if someone could please tell me if I need to upgrade PHP and MySQL and whatever else, and possible problems this may cause. Any pointers on how to do this would be great.

Plesk 9.3.0
2.2.3-43.el5.centos
Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.14
MySQL 5.0.77-4.el5_4.2
PHP 5.1.6-27.el5

Let me know if you need any further info, but this has me scared crapless!!

Cheers
John

 

[IgorG]

http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/PHP

 

[John Fleming]

Thanks Igor, But does not help me much. I know "how" to do it (so to speak)! I have read a few step by steps, but what I can't seem to find the answers too are...

Does MySQL need to be upgraded?
Does the OS need to be upgraded?
Can I just upgraded PHP - Will that break anything etc etc.

It is fine to just follow the steps on that page, but I have no clue what the "outcome" will be!

 

[IgorG]

Plesk doesn’t ship client’s PHP, it only downloads it from original OS vendor repo. Therefore upgrade of PHP is just upgrade of one of system component.

 

[John Fleming]

Right! Ok.

So if I upgraded PHP will I need to upgrade MySQL and the OS etc?? Or will PHP upgrade Ok on its own?

 

[IgorG]

If it is necessary you can upgrade MySQL or something else separately.

 

[badrd]

after installing atomic try
# yum update php mysql