Upgrading PHP Via SSH

The Russian · 05-28-2011, 07:31 PM

Hello, I have a Virtual Private Server with CentOS 5 on it. And in order for vBulletin to run, I need to upgrade PHP to the latest version WITHOUT it even coming near mysql. So basically, I need to upgrade PHP via SSH, but PHP ONLY. NOT MySQL.

How do I do this?

AlucardZero · 05-28-2011, 08:00 PM

yum upgrade php

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The Russian · 05-28-2011, 08:03 PM

I'm so dumb. Thank you.

The Russian · 05-28-2011, 08:13 PM

How about if I want to upgrade Apache?

AlucardZero · 05-28-2011, 10:50 PM

yum upgrade httpd

You should know that this will get you the latest versions available from CentOS unless you've configured it with other repositories, and that the CentOS version, while it is patched for security flaws, is usually not the latest version available from the individual software's site.

The Russian · 05-28-2011, 11:06 PM

How do I get the latest version? Like what repository should I use?

hyperhead · 05-29-2011, 05:09 AM

Ok, so you are using Plesk, a friend of mine upgraded PHP via Atomic Rocket Turtles repositories on his Plesk server.

It upgraded PHP, but it broke PHPMyAdmin in Plesk. He has not fixed it yet!!

MySQL is still ok, as Plesk relies on the MySQL installation, but it is a very old version of MySQL 4.x

So Beware when straying from repositories that are different from CentOS.

Something will always break!! (I think you have learned this from experience now!)

The Russian · 05-29-2011, 05:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hyperhead

Ok, so you are using Plesk, a friend of mine upgraded PHP via Atomic Rocket Turtles repositories on his Plesk server.

It upgraded PHP, but it broke PHPMyAdmin in Plesk. He has not fixed it yet!!

MySQL is still ok, as Plesk relies on the MySQL installation, but it is a very old version of MySQL 4.x

So Beware when straying from repositories that are different from CentOS.

Something will always break!! (I think you have learned this from experience now!)

Yeah, I used Atomic in the beginning, which is what lead to the other MySQL problem that you were responding to. I re-imaged, and this time, I deliberately upgraded MySQL instead of accidentally, and upgraded PHP by compiling the source. It was harder, but it worked.

hyperhead · 05-29-2011, 05:18 AM

Good news. So Plesk control panel is still working ok?

If so, could you share the instructions for upgrading you followed.

The Russian · 05-29-2011, 05:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hyperhead

Good news. So Plesk control panel is still working ok?

If so, could you share the instructions for upgrading you followed.

After the re-image, everything is great, except that I had to do db rollbacks on both my forums.

Here are the resources.

http://echodittolabs.org/blog/2009/0...-52-centosrhel

And then with that, a LOT of Google-ing.

hyperhead · 05-29-2011, 05:25 AM

Thanks.

The Russian · 05-29-2011, 05:26 AM

No problem. Thank you!