I'm not a programming expert but I am trying to get more into Dynamic Website design using PHP. There's a hashing library on the new PHP version 5.5 that I want to use on a project but right now I'm running PHP 5.4. I use MAMP PRO V 2.1.4 and after looking online and on their site I couldn't find anything with step-by-step instructions on how to update the current PHP version I'm using. I was able to download a v5.5 folder from their site that they say is compatible with the version of MAMP I own. Here's what I've tried so far...
Ok so I looked at the php info page.
It looks like I need to add the new php version folder to my MAMP/bin/php folder and I did that. But it still doesn't show up as a selection on MAMP Pro.
So I read somewhere that MAMP Pro V 2.x only gives you two options for PHP and that I should rename the other folders in the PHP file.
I feel like I'm missing a important step. Any advice would be great! If you have any questions please ask. Hopefully I can figure this out and this post will help future non-program savvy web designers too.
Probably the esasiest way is to copy your PHP files somewhere else and then use Appdelete or similar, and delete the MAMP folder in your applications folder and re-install. I had to do this after a Yosemite install broke the older version of MAMP. Why keep the older versions?
I agree reinstall is very safe. u dont need to take a copy of old MAMP. the new install does it on its own. just feel free to downlod new MAMP and click install.
only care u need to take is this
Edit httpd.conf and open up line to include vhosts.conf and copy old vhosts.conf from old MAMP folder.
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I currently have PHP installed on Windows 10 via AMPPS which seems to have stopped being updated. The latest version of PHP available from the AMPPS GUI is 7.1.
I want the latest version of PHP, but it is very hard to find out how to get it. I have found this page: https://windows.php.net/download/ but there doesn't seem to an any installer or suchlike, and I have no idea which option to download or what to do once I've downloaded it.
Isn't there some simple way to do this? I have composer installed if that helps.
Maybe something like composer upadte-php from powershell or something equally simple and user-friendly? Or maybe php --update.
If not, could someone please explain the process in simple steps. I certainly need the new version in my system path too.
Short backstory: Recently I've installed MAMP as I want to start learning PHP. I got version 4.1.1 from the MAMP homepage, Apache didn't start. This seems to be a common bug for that version, I found a solution in downloading version 4.1.0. Both servers started but the Open WebStart Page didn't work.
My Problem: I wanted to try reinstalling it, I deleted the MAMP folder, as I thought that would be sufficient, instead of deleting it in the system settings. Now when I download it again and start the installer it says
MAMP setup has detected existing MAMP installation. You need to remove existing installation before proceeding. Do you want to uninstall it now?
Clicking either yes or no gives me
MAMP setup will now exit and the existing MAMP installation will not be removed.
In the system settings I find
MAMP & MAMP PRO 4.1.0 version 4.1.0 (1.47 GB)
When trying to uninstall it it gives me this error
Windows cannot find 'C:\MAMP\unins000.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
Is there any way, other than reinstalling my whole OS, to solve this problem or do I have to turn to a different web server app?
I just encountered this problem and I hope my solution works for you as well:
Just download the .exe file into another device and install the MAMP.
After a successful installation, just copy the folder to your original device that has the problem.
And then you should find a file with a name starting with "uni" meaning it is for uninstallation. Just run that file and then everything should be fine!
I had the same problem (on OS is windows 10).
I browse the web and found a way:
You can download the ccleaner and use it, it can delete the MAMP.
This is my issue and it has given me sleepless night.
I have been working on the wamp 2.1 server environment for the past 3 years and now i want to upgrade. I finally installed wamp 2.5 and would be willing to keep my previous wamp 2.1 version. everything looks good, because after installation, i did the following after:
Copied ?:\wamp_old\bin\apache to ?:\wamp\bin
Copied ?:\wamp_old\bin\mysql to ?:\wamp\bin
Copied ?:\wamp_old\bin\php to ?:\wamp\bin
Now, the issue is this:
Whenever i start the wamp server with the latest version, it works and the icon turns green. but whenever i try changing/switching back to the old version, all the services starts except the Apache. the icon stays orange and never turns green. whenever i click test port, it tells me your port 80 is not actually used. when i click on install service, i get this message: your port 80 is available, install will proceed. when i select remove service, it removes immediately. when i click start/resume service, nothing happens and it never starts.
What I want to achieve is this:
Some old joomla site were developed on the former wamp 2.1 and each time i tried accessing them via the new wamp 2.5, i see some deprecated functions and it display some chunks of codes. meanwhile, i have two projects that refuse to run on the old wamp 2.1, so i decided to run the 2.5. Presently, the system has wamp 2.5 running.
For 5 days now, i have been cracking my head and i have been stucked.. someone out there should please help me with a solution to run wamp 2.1 and wamp 2.5 together so i can switch version easily. or a probably solution will be appreciated.
Kind Regards !
You were on the right track copying the old Apache MySQL and PHP folders into the new 2.5 version.
Unfortunately switching to very old versions from the new ones is now a bit more hassle than it used to be because of the changes made in the version of compiler used to compile Apache and PHP.
Your old versions of Apache and PHP were compiled with MSVC6 and the new versions with MSVC11 and the 2 are not compatible i.e. an Apache compiled with VC11 wont run with a PHP compiled with VC6 etc.
So try this :-
Switch from Apache 2.4.9 to your old version, it wont start because the PHP version will still be 5.5.12.
Ignore the problem.
Now switch to an old version of PHP, thats compatible with the old Apache.
With luck it will now work.
Check you have the correct version by looking at phpinfo
If it does not come up re-do the switch to the old apache and then again to the old PHP by just re-clicking the version numbers on the relevant switch menu.
To be honest I don't know if it would be possible to restore everything to work fine. I had once similar problems - I had Wampserver and installed new PHP version for WAMP and switched to new PHP version and eveything stopped to work. I tried to change PHP version to the previous one but I had info it's not compatible with Apache and I couldn't change PHP version because of chosen PHP version.
Now I moved to easyPHP and it's much more easier, you can have many PHP versions, there's no problem with changing them.
Probably in your case the problem was not WAMP itself but PHP versions. That's why when you launched your older code you have many warnings. You should simple select older PHP version to do that or you simple have to turn off warning (maybe for other PHP version you had turned off displaying warnings by default?).
If I were you, I would move to easyPHP, dump your databases (if any) and move everything to easyPHP. Probably you won't make your installation of WAMPserver work so the other option is backup everything, dump your databases and reinstall WAMPserver but you can be almost sure similar problem occurs sooner or later when you will be switching between PHP versions.
After alot of brainstorming, I finally resolved the issue all by myself.
Though it may not look wise, but i believe it could go a long way to help others who are stucked in situations like this.
First, I started the wamp 2.5, changed all the versions to the latest ones, which is Apache, Mysql and Php... when the icon turned green, I decided to stop all services, uninstalled the services one after the other. (Apache and mysql) and exit the application by right clicking.
Secondly, I renamed the wamp which encapsulates the 2.5 version to wamp_2.5old and renamed the 2.1 folder back to wamp. i launched the wamp and installed the services back again..this time, it was a lower version. both php and apache had just one version while my sql had two. I made sure the right version of sql was selected and i installed it. I restarted all the services, the icon turned green and all my old website worked.
I tried the method vice-versa and all my latest projects worked. it might look challenging but thats my own way of discovering running multiple version of wamp.
Lastly, thanks to Özgür Eroğlu and Marcin Nabiałek.. they have been of helped.
Pleas help me flag this as useful for research..
vielen gluck.. good luck guys !
I am pretty new at this Mac OS thingy and I tried installing PHP54 on it. I know, there is a ton of tutorials out there and trust me, I have spend hours online reading. The problem is I am a newbie and I became impatient and just started installing from Brew, Port and compiling my own.
I really just want to start over, but I would like not to reinstall the OS and I really want to understand how to install into different folder, if I for example want different versions of PHP. (I saw that someone had that in a video tutorial, but he did not tell how to do it)
So the following is my questions to you experts:
How to remove all files from a HomeBrew-install (I think I removed some manually, so that the auto-remover don't work anymore)
How to remove all files from a MacPort-install (same as above)
How to remove the default PHP installation (I've managed to update it, but I don't think it was made correctly)
How to install a new version of PHP 5.3 along with 5.4 and 5.5
Installing MySQL and PhpMyAdmin so that it works with my PHP (I could not connect to the MySQL server the last time I installed it)
I don't think I have made any changes to the Apache-server (hopefully not)
I chose to do a reinstall of my OSX
I'm trying to figure something out:
I am using Ubuntu server 11.10 virtualized on Win7 (I don't think that matters but more info is better than less) to work on a Drupal 6 website I inherited and need to make significant changes to.
I want to set up a development copy of this Drupal website on my Ubuntu server so I can work without worrying about torching the production website.
I successfully got the production files downloaded and onto my machine, I got the production MySQL database exported and imported into the dev MySQL server, and I set up a symbolic link from the directory /home/myname/thewebsite.com to /var/www/thewebsite.com so I can easily access it.
When I got the website they didn't know the admin password so I dug around online and reset it in the dev db using phpmyadmin and finally log in.
When logging in and poking around the site there are lots of errors, which when googled lead me to believe that PHP 5.3 is causing them and that there are some modules in use that only work with PHP 5.2
After looking around a lot online and on stackoverflow there seems to be no easy way to install PHP 5.2 on Ubuntu Server 11.10. With no packages for 5.2 available through apt-get or aptitude what should/can I do?
1) Install 5.2 from source - how do I get it to interface with MySQL and Apache2? Also, I've never installed anything significant from source. Is there a walkthrough?
2) Replace the repositories with old ones? Will this work on 11.10? The newest instructions I found were for 10.04
3) Use already built PHP 5.2 packages for Ubuntu? Couldn't find these
4) Pay someone who knows more to do it for me? (Just kidding, this isn't really an option...)
Cheers and thanks for your help!
PHP dropped support for 5.2 in August 2011; operating system providers such as Ubuntu will not supply a version that is out of support, so you absolutely won't get an official copy of PHP 5.2 on the current version of Ubuntu (or any other OS).
If you're running an older version of Ubuntu (eg 10.04), you might be able to do it; it would still be a downgrade, because PHP 5.3 has been the default version for quite a long time now.
If you're on a newer version of Ubuntu, ie 11.10 as you state, it is going to be a problem for you.
The Drupal developers dropped the ball badly on this one. I guess it was because Drupal 7 tool so long to finish; they were expecting D7 to be out much sooner, and so they never bothered fixing up D6 to work with PHP5.3. As it turned out, this was a big mistake, because in fact D7 still wasn't officially released when PHP dropped support for 5.2.
But even so, they should have fixed it, because they're still officially supporting Drupal 6, so they need it to work with the current version of PHP. This is definitely Drupal's problem, not PHP's, Ubuntu's or yours.
But you still need to deal with it.
I found this question over on AskUbuntu.com, which gives an answer applicable to 11.04. It isn't quite 11.10 you were asking for, but it it a lot more recent than the best you'd found, so it might be helpful.
Alternatively, you could research exactly what it is about Drupal6 and your specific modules that doesn't work in PHP5.3. The language differences between 5.2 and 5.3 that can break things are not big, so I would expect any code changes required to be fairly small. You might find you can fix the code yourself. And maybe even submit the changes to the community -- Drupal is open source, after all.
Another tack you could take is to consider whether this saga represents an opportunity for you to move the site to Drupal 7?
This may or may not be feasible, depending on the modules you're using, etc, but if it is possible, it will solve the problem, because D7 is of course fully compatible with PHP5.3.
And just to cheer you up, I'll close by mentioning that PHP are on the verge of releasing PHP 5.4. Hopefully the Drupal devs will be more on the ball this time.