By default, RHEL5.x64 comes with 5.1.6 - pretty old. I'm looking for a more up to date version, 5.2.8, or even the latest 5.2.9 (as of March 2009). Ideally, a Yum/RPM-based solution, for transparent upgrades (when I plan).
How do you upgrade the default for an up-to-date version?
Oracle have some up-to-date PHP RPMs, but not in a repository that I can see. You could try asking Christopher Jones if he would be interested in building repository metadata for them?
There are also versions in the CentOS testing repository, and Remi Collet has PHP 5.2.9 in his repository (read his announcement).
you could also install a fedora RPM package for PHP in redhat enterprise. RHEL5 rpm packages are like fedora core 6 packages. something like this.
I have installed many Fedora Core 6 RPM packages on RHEL 5 without any problems.
I suggest getting the spec file for the Red Hat PHP rpm, then use that to create your own RPM, in your own local repo, and use that. This way you get the benefits of the newest PHP, configured to be as compatible as possible with your system, and when using YUM for other things, that require PHP, they will be satisfied with your install.
I've elected to go for the Zend-CE solution, installed with YUM (default on rhel5). It's not perfect, the admin-dashboard security leaves something to be desired, and enabling it to be used for php-cli needs at least a manual removale of the old php-cli package + a symlink to the new, but otherwise, its not complicated.
please look at:
http://bluhaloit.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/installing-php-52x-on-redhat-es5-centos-5-etc/
it'll up2date your php for 5.3
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I am moving a Magento 1.8 web to a lower cost hosting and exhausted by phpmyadmin installation.
Magento 1.8 was suggested to run with PHP 5.4 and Mysql 5.5, therefore, I chose a Centos6.9 image and thought could be easier...The LAMP stack installation is smooth, but always got problem with phpmyadmin. I have tried PHP5.4 + Mysql5.5, PHP5.4 + Mysql5.6, PHP5.5 + Mysql5.6 combinations, none of them turn out success...
Most of online blogs suggest same way to install phpmyadmin which I followed as below:
wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
or
rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
then
yum install phpmyadmin
I thought the EPEL package will be able to automatically identify php modules already installed and install the right version phpmyadmin accordingly...
instead it seems stick with php 5.3 which is default php version with Centos 6....here is error message:
the list is very long and involved many php modules...
I am kind of newbie with linux server stuff...Can anyone help to address this issue and point a solution out? thank you in advance.
BTW, I am big fan of open source, but from this point, I feel a bit disappointed to open source products...especially when end user need to work with multiple of them together...it can never be said as user-friendly.
If you have the Remi repo installed you should be able to use:
yum install phpmyadmin --enablerepo=remi-php56
You have php 5.4.45 installed from remi-php54, so you need to enabled this repository to install any additional module.
As explained by the Wizard.
Please note than PHP 5.4 and 5.5 are not maintained anymore, so I hearthly recommend to upgrade to a supported release (5.6 or more recent)
P.S. phpMyAdmin in EPEL is quite old (4.0) but suitable for old PHP versions. For more recent version of PHP (5.6, 7 and up), you probably need the latest phpMyAdmin version 4.7 (which is available in "remi" reposotiry)
All of our webservers are running CentOS 7. We now have some cases where the PHP 5.4.4+, which is the lastest version provided in the official CentOS & EPEL repositories, is not enough anymore. Meaning we have to upgrade PHP to at least PHP version 5.6. What is the most elegant and stable way to do so?
There are various repositories like Webtactic which would offer PHP version 5.6 but in the Official CentOS Repo list Webtactic is listed in the section "Known Problem Repositories". Furthermore compiling php on CentOS is a mess concerning the upgrades...
What would you recommend?
Cheers
Documenting my struggles to help others and hopefully get some feedback on how I could have done it better.
The command pecl install pthreads fails due to the php installed on my ubuntu 13.04 box not having zts configured.
Options:
1) The ubuntu respository does not have a php package with zts enabled. As of this post, ubuntu only has php 5.4.9 in it's repository (Released: 22 Nov 2012). It is possible to compile a php version from source - which I eventually did (see below), but..
2) I .. ALSO .. wanted to use phpfarm for the ability to run different versions of PHP on my local setup. On github, there is Christian Weiske's original contribution here (phpfarm) and a fork that he has contributed to, by François Poirotte - also called phpfarm. Francois' fork has a few more options to configure ('post-install customization') but I was not able to make that work with a PECL extension. I'm curious to know if misunderstood how to do that, because it looks to me that it just simply does not take PECL commands.
3). Prior to recompiling php from source, I loaded phpfarm (tried both versions), enabled php-fpm (FastCGI) and was able to get my apache2 server to use a phpfarm version (5.5.10) which showed up in a phpinfo() output. But the php-cli always showed the original php version (5.4.9) in the cli (run: php -v). Running (run: php -i | grep php.ini) showed /etc/php5/cli but I had previously removed php5 and aptitude show php5 returned a state of 'not installed.' I even renamed the /etc/php5 directory to see if I could force the system to use the phpfarm php version. Obviously, this is incorrect thinking and I went on to simply compile php 5.6 from source. But, is there something more to do to get a phpfarm php to be used in the cli? I read that the cli loads it's configuration file on a per command basis, unlike the apache2. If I could have run the 5.5.10 version (configured with zts) then I could have then done pecl install pthreads and then re-complied the phpfarm 5.5.10 version with pthreads enabled. Although it appears I will be able to run various versions of php in the apache server, will I ever be able to switch-phpfarm to another version and see it working in the php-cli? Also, I was uncertain on where I could have loaded a pthreads file for the phpfarm compile process to find and use it; could I have done it that way?
4) This stackoverflow post, essentially posted by Joe Watkins - the developer of pThreads is a perfect how-to on getting pThreads installed on a Ubuntu system that has had php configured with zts (Zend Thread Safety). (Thanks Joe!)
A nice tutorial on using phpfarm configured with fast-cgi and the apache server to help run websites under different php configurations.
So what gives with php, php-cli and the phpfarm?
I'm not sure about phpfarm, but do know of another solution ...
Multi
A tool for maintaining multiple installations of PHP in multiple configurations
https://github.com/datingvip/multi
This is a bit more user orientated, will allow you to build many configurations and versions of php, any tagged release of php, and any patched version from any fork of php-src.
In addition, because I wrote it, it will install pthreads for you.
git clone https://github.com/datingvip/multi
cd multi
VERSION=5.5.10 DBG=no-debug ZTS=zts ./php.multi
The above commands will yield an installation of PHP (in one suitable configuration, of one version) in /opt/php.
Look at php.defaults for configuration options and adjust before building
Should configuration fail on, for example, something related to a library like libxml2, it will usually be the case that
sudo apt-get install library-dev
Where library is replaced with the name of the library holding up the build, will fix the problem for you. If it does not, a quick google should get you going again.
Once the build is complete
source /path/to/multi/php.env 5.5.10
Note: multi will always install pthreads for any zts version automatically
I hope that gets you somewhere ...
I am running a fully updated Manjaro (Arch Linux derivative) distribution with PHP 5.5.6 installed using pacman.
Some scripts I am forced to develop with are not fully compatible with PHP 5.5 yet.
Is there an easy way to downgrade to PHP 5.4 or do I have to compile it from source?
Yes it's possible to downgrade packages. Short version of possibilities:
Look in the pacman cache of your computer if the packages are still present (/var/cache/pacman/pkg)
Get old packages from the Arch Rollback Machine
Build the old packages from ABS
The procedures are explained in the wiki. The simplest one will certainly be to look in the cache, or eventually ARM if they are not present.
I need to deploy Zend Framework app on Ubuntu.
I've downloaded Ubuntu desktop, installed using apt-get apache+php+mysql,
but PHP turned out to be not the latest 5.3, but 5.2.1 and even
mysql extension is missing.
I understand I can get somewhere a fresh php installation, get dependent libs (like curl or libxml2) compile them one by one and then I get full-features latest PHP bundle.
But is there anywhere already full PHP bundle with latest version and all libs to get
ZF app running very quickly?
One of the downsides of package management is that you're at the mercy of the package maintainers. Ubuntu has opted not to update to PHP 5.3 in this version, so you'll have to either wait until 2010 for it or compile PHP yourself.
Most of the PHP extensions that arent in a default source build directly from PHP are in seperate apt packages. If you do a search for PHP5 in you package manager youll see packages like:
PHP5
PHP5-Mysql
PHP5-cli
PHP5-SQLite
etc..
Im going to assume that there are also packages specifically for php 5.3 - most likely labeled as php53-* or something similar. You may need to adda repo for this as im not sure its in the crore repos.
Anyhow you need to isntall all these packages that you need to use.
I ran into similar issues getting the latest PHP on my CentOS server. I installed Zend Server Community Edition, which sets up it's own Apache/PHP5.3 stack in /usr/local/zend. And here's a Getting Started article.
It's a full PHP bundle.
If you need other packages for Ubuntu, check the ubuntu repository for PHP5 at http://bg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/php5/