Dear all I had a requirement to install a PHP app that requires PHP5.2. Centos ships with 5.1.6 :-( Anyway, after long consideration, I've decided to use IUS' PHP 5.3 stack. I avoided Centos's PHP5.2 Testing repo due to missing modules and also, since 5.3 is bleeding edge (WTF!?) http://iuscommunity.org/ After aggressively ensuring EPEL and IUS repo does not inadvertently overwrites ISPConfig dependent packages that was sourced from RPMForge, using IUS yum-plugin-replace, with a single command - "yum replace php --replace-with php53u", the upgrade was relatively painless! Code: [epel] ... exclude=perl* arj fail2ban freeze mod_fcgid nomarch php-eaccelerator pure-ftpd Before I forget - I did this on a freshly installed Centos 5.5 Perfect Server configuration. Your mileage may vary. There was some things of note - php-mhash has been deprecated in PHP5.3, so you don't need this. I had to install php53u-tidy separately, it was uninstalled as part of "Dependency Removed" but not replaced automagically. php-eaccelerator was also removed and I couldn't find a replacement on IUS repo for this. Instead, I used php53u-pecl-apc. Not sure whether this is okay though and I invite comments/advice. Another concern is suPHP. Unsure of the proper was top test this, I had wordpress installed in a website with suPHP enabled. Wordpress seems working fine with automatic plugin updates working flawlessly. Can anyone comment whether this means suPHP is working or otherwise? Also does lack of php-eaccelerator affect operations, also since I had to replace it with php53u-pecl-apc. Comments/Advice appreciated. Some of things I wrote about of note below - Code: Installing: php53u i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 1.3 M php53u-cli i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 3.0 M php53u-common i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 571 k php53u-devel i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 668 k php53u-gd i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 109 k php53u-imap i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 48 k php53u-ldap i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 34 k php53u-mbstring i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 1.2 M php53u-mcrypt i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 30 k php53u-mssql i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 40 k php53u-mysql i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 85 k php53u-odbc i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 49 k php53u-pdo i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 64 k php53u-pear noarch 1:1.8.1-6.ius.el5 ius 420 k php53u-pspell i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 24 k php53u-snmp i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 27 k php53u-soap i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 144 k php53u-xml i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 110 k php53u-xmlrpc i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 50 k Removing: php i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 5.9 M php-cli i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 5.2 M php-common i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 393 k php-devel i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 2.5 M php-gd i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 327 k php-imap i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 96 k php-ldap i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 43 k php-mbstring i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 1.6 M php-mcrypt i386 5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1 installed 32 k php-mssql i386 5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1 installed 48 k php-mysql i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 175 k php-odbc i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 83 k php-pdo i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 100 k php-pear noarch 1:1.4.9-6.el5 installed 1.8 M php-snmp i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 24 k php-soap i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 299 k php-xml i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 215 k php-xmlrpc i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 installed 87 k Installing for dependencies: libedit i386 20090923-3.0_1.el5.rf rpmforge 262 k t1lib i386 5.1.1-7.el5 epel 194 k Removing for dependencies: php-eaccelerator i386 5.1.6_0.9.5.2-4.el5.rf installed 703 k php-mhash i386 5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1 installed 7.4 k php-tidy i386 5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1 installed 43 k Installing: php53u-pecl-apc i386 3.1.6-2.ius.el5 ius 103 k php53u-tidy i386 5.3.4-2.ius.el5 ius 33 k
*Update I've managed to re-compile Rpmforge's php-eaccelerator against IUS' PHP5.3 stack using the latest sources from http://eaccelerator.net/ (eaccelerator-0.9.6.1.tar.bz2) All I did was to have the source tarball in the "/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES" and to change the spec file at line #7 defining the new source - Code: %define module_version 0.9.6.1 phpinfo shows the [eAccelerator] section and so did the command below - Code: # php -v PHP 5.3.4 (cli) (built: Jan 5 2011 11:52:39) Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies with eAccelerator v0.9.6.1, Copyright (c) 2004-2010 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator Would appreciate any comments.
If suPHP is working correctly you will notice while running "top" that php jobs show up as "php-cgi" when they run.
