Hello everyone,

Im here because 1and1 are useless,

I have a dedicated server with them that i took a 2 year contract out, i want to install the new version of VB which requires PHP 5.2, i only have 5.1.6 . I have looked for an update but they dotn do them for Fedora 6 as of over 2 years ago, which is really annoying that i got given a server with an out dated OS.

I have updated to Plesk 9.3 from Plesk 8, and that updated the 4.* i had to 5.1.6,

Can anyone help me with updating the server to PHP 5.2, i would really appreciate it, i am a complete Newbie with this. I have search the forums but couldnt find anything.

Cheers Simon

You should make sure that Plesk can handle php 5.2 or you will break plesk.
You can compile php 5.2 from source , if you need to keep php 5.1 for plesk make sure that php 5.2 puts its php.ini file in a separate place.
See the configure options for php.
Run
From the directory you are compiling in.

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php



I suggest getting away from 1and1 ASAP.

thanks you, i shall try this, but worried, but will do a full back up first, i checked plesk and it is ok with php 5.2

Welcome to LQ.

Like the Fedora 6 based RHEL 5, CentOS 5.4, you can just
rebuild an SRC.RPM source package : 1) php-5.2.6
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pu....2.6-5.src.rpm
> > php-5.2.6-5.src.rpm

.. Or 2) php-5.3.0
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-5.0-764323/#3
> > php-5.3.0-6.fc12.src.rpm

The command : rpm rpm --rebuild <package>.src.rpm

Setting up an unprivileged rpmbuild account in /home/<user>/ :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...6/highlight#13
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Good luck .. .. .. ..
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"Remi packages"

http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterp...oview/php.html

php-5.3.0-2.el5.remi.2.i386
php-5.3.1-1.el5.remi.i386
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