Upgrade PHP 4.3.9 to 5.2.0

[LVS_Support]

I'm new at the server and while I pay someone to monitor the server, I'd like to learn how to do some basic tasks. I've surfed the forums but have not found a good post that would help me upgrade to PHP 5.

The Server currently is running:
Plesk 8.6
awstats 6.6-1.swsoft
bind 9.2.4-30.el4
coldfusion Component was not installed
coldfusion-support Component was not installed
courier-imap 3.0.8-rhel4.build86080722.02
drweb Component was not installed
drweb-qmail Component was not installed
frontpage Component was not installed
httpd 2.0.52-41.ent
mailman 2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6
mod_bw Component was not installed
mod_perl 1.99_16-4.5
mod_python 3.1.3-5.1
mysql 4.1.22-2.el4
perl-Apache-ASP Component was not installed
php 4.3.9-3.22.12
plesk-billing Component was not installed
postgresql-server Component was not installed
psa 8.6.0-rhel4.build86080722.02
psa-api-rpc 8.6.0-rhel4.build86080822.19
psa-autoinstaller 3.3.2-080710.09
psa-backup-manager 8.6.0-rhel4.build86080822.19
psa-horde 3.1.7-rhel4.build86080722.02
psa-imp 4.1.6-rhel4.build86080722.02
psa-logrotate 3.7-rhel4.build86080722.02
psa-manual-custom-skin-guide 8.6.0-rhel4.build86080722.02
psa-migration-manager 8.6.0-rhel4.build86080822.19
psa-miva Component was not installed
psa-mod-fcgid-configurator 1.0-13
psa-proftpd 1.3.1-rhel4.build86080722.02
psa-qmail 1.03-rhel4.build86080822.19
psa-qmail-rblsmtpd 0.70-rhel4.build86080722.02
psa-rubyrails-configurator 1.1.6-rhel4.build86080722.02
psa-spamassassin 8.6.0-rhel4.build86080722.02
psa-tomcat-configurator 8.6.0-rhel4.build86080722.02
psa-turba 2.1.7-rhel4.build86080722.02
ruby 1.8.6-200703301102
samba Component was not installed
sitebuilder Component was not installed
spamassassin 3.2.4-1.el4.1
SSHTerm 0.2.2-rhel4.build86080722.02
tomcat 5.0.30-8jpp
webalizer 2.01_10-25


I'd like to upgrade PHP to 5.2.0 and any other software that you feel would increase functionality and security.

Is there a good tutorial to follow that would help me safely upgrade to PHP 5.2?

Thank you for your help.

Team C
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[atomicturtle]

Sure, check this out:

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

 

[MartCom]

Does your answer apply to me as well atomicturtle, or should I look for another solution, since I'm running none of the OSses that your site refers to: Debian 3.1

 

[ropox]

Sure, check this out:

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

atomicturtle i did checked out your site on www.atomicorp.com and your php upgrade tutorial but i cant seem to get anything working.

tried to do it manually and automatically.

when i did it automatically with your script i got this

# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 4AS - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/4AS/i386/headers/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/4AS/i386/headers/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found


obviously the channel is not the right one. Since i relatively new to rpms what could be wrong ?

i'm running on a VPS
Plesk : psa v8.6.0_build86080910.19 os_RedHat el4
OS : Linux 2.6.9-023stab048.4-enterprise

thank you in advance for your time

 

[danliker]

for debian you can use http://www.dotdeb.org, but i suggest you to update to debian etch (sarge is end of life)

 

[atomicturtle]

Yeah looks like your yum configs are wrong there. What I'd do is remove your yum install, and let the atomic installer set it up for you. If you cant do that, then you should at least remove those repos that are giving you errors.

Did you install yum on there yourself? RHEL AS 4 doesn't normally come with it.

 

[LVS_Support]

Thank you!

Atomic Rocket Turtle,

Worked like a charm! If I had more people like you in my world there would be no problems.

Thanks,

LVS Support

 

[LVS_Support]

I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but you wouldn't happen to have the same easy installer for ClamAV for the same Linux box as my original post? You may not even recommend ClamAV. I'm not sure. I tried F-Secure, but had it removed from the server.

Thanks either way.

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[atomicturtle]

Yup, sure do. You can install it with "yum install clamd". And to tie it into plesk, install qmail-scanner "yum install qmail-scanner"

 

[LVS_Support]

Thanks for the ClamAV install instructions. Everything looks good except:
Error: Missing Dependency: perl-suidperl is needed by package qmail-scanner

Anything I need to worry about?

And lastly, is there a good reference for the Linux version? I'm looking to see if there is anything I need to do to ensure it is protecting and updating properly.

Thanks,

CC
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[LVS_Support]

Got it.

I've installed perl-suidperl. I'm researching ClamAV for my linux box now.

Thanks,

LVS

 

[janissary]

atomicturtle doesn't work for me

I have tried installing from your page atomicturtle but it seems that my ssh screen freezes and doesn't install yum. I have
Plesk Control Panel version psa v8.6.0_build86080910.19 os_FedoraCore 6
Operating system Linux 2.6.9-023stab044.4-smp

thank you for your time

 

[ropox]

php5 was not installed

Yeah looks like your yum configs are wrong there. What I'd do is remove your yum install, and let the atomic installer set it up for you. If you cant do that, then you should at least remove those repos that are giving you errors.

Did you install yum on there yourself? RHEL AS 4 doesn't normally come with it.

No yum was there for some reason. so I removed it with rpm -e yum and then went and redid the process
from your page http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/PHP

everything was went ok and updated it everything and yum was looking at your channels , but php5 for some reason was not installed.

i checked everywhere even for the rpmnew extensions and there was no php5 in order to change the php.ini files. Did i do something wrong ? Maybe these are not the correct channels to get and upgrade to php5 and even mysql4 to mysql5 ?

i saw the repos on folder on yum.repos.d and all there is there

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2490 Jul 27 05:14 CentOS-Base.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 610 Jul 27 05:14 CentOS-Media.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137 Aug 1 21:01 plesk.repo


also I did check your RPMs on by looking on http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/art/4ES/RPMS/ and I saw that there is PHP5 there!!! So why did yum not installed it when i asked for it ?

 

[ropox]

solved it - upgraded it php 4 to php 5

ok so i'm a bit newbie and i didnt figure this out from the beginning.

I resolved it and here is what i did.

Although i followed the steps from http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/PHP php5 was not upgraded.
So after some reading i went to the repos directory
cd yum.repos.d
and changed the file CentOS-Base.repo
vi CentOS-Base.repo

to open all channels so changed the enabled to 1 wherever i saw it and then saved the file.

after that i typed

yum update php


Everything was looking file till there was one dependency failed : sqlite2...

that did my nerves in since i got the message :
Error: Missing Dependency: php <= 4.4.0 is needed by package php-sqlite2

well i what i did was

yum remove sqlite2

and after that yum update php and it worked like a charm.....

my system was Centos4 on a VPS with Plesk 8.6


thanks atomic turtle for your repos and help

 

[atomicturtle]

Did you run the atomic installer? You dont have my repo set up.

PS- dont use the 3es repo. We terminated that one almost 2 years ago.

 

[janissary]

php5 to 5.2 upgrade problem on centos6

on my vps , yum isn't installed by default , so followin ayomic turtle's directions I tried to install yum and php update but it seems that my ssh client (I have tried with a web based ssh client and putty) seems to freeze while configuring yum. I have waited for over an hour but it stayed the smae. any suggestions for what I may do next?

 

[atomicturtle]

sounds like a client problem, theres nothing in yum or the atomic installer that could do that.

 

[LVS_Support]

Uninstall ClamAV & Scanner

Atomic,

Do you know how I could uninstall the ClamAV and perl-scanner and qmail-scanner. My SpamAssassin no longer works (since the install of ClamAV and associated software). Now we get tons of spam tagged as ***SPAM*** without removing them. This isn't too bad since many times good e-mail are tagged as spam as well. All in all, I'm looking to go back to the stock Spam Assassin or looking to add a better product to the server to help filter spam to all of our clients.

Thanks,

LVS Software

 

[desiguru]

This worked really well. Does anyone know to go get now mysql 5 from 4 on rhel 4?

 

[atomicturtle]

Mysql 5.0.76 is available in the [atomic] repository as well.

yum update mysql

Should be all you need to do