Php7.4 is released

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  1. ahrasis

    ahrasis Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

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  2. florian030

    florian030 Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    there is also a tutorial on howtoforge "How to install PHP 7.4 as PHP-FPM & FastCGI for ISPConfig 3 on Ubuntu 18.04" - currently the state is pending-
     
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  3. ahrasis

    ahrasis Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    I believe ondrej sury repo is ready with php7.4 packages. I have not installed it on my servers yet.
     
  4. ustoopia

    ustoopia Member

    Looking forward to it :)
     
  5. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

  6. ahrasis

    ahrasis Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    Since ondrej sury is ready for php7.4 I think will install using his php ppa instead of self compiled method as suggested in the tutorial.
     
  7. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    I recommend using the ondrej packages as well.
     
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  8. ustoopia

    ustoopia Member

    May I ask why? I'm curious.. Besides of course the ammount of time it willl take to install & compile, what are the pro/cons of using ondrej's versus compiling??
     
  9. Steini86

    Steini86 Active Member

    Pro: It is much easier to do automated security patches installation with the package manager than to compile each ~week a new version (almost nobody does it and then runs an outdated version) (https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades)
    Pro: ondrej's packages are usually tested and are compatible to each other. For compiling, you have to take into account all dependencies and their versions. If you script the compilation now, there is no guarantee it will work with the next update..
    Con: Self-compiled 'could' be faster for updates (although I doubt that the usual user will beat ondrej)
    Con: Some packages are missing in the packages (although you can install almost everything via pecl)
    Con: Safer if you don't trust ondrej (OK, this is a very weak point)
     
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  10. ustoopia

    ustoopia Member

    Wauw. Thank you good sir for explaining this so clearly for me. I see how it is now. I salute you for taking the time to explain this to me. I 'm now aware that I also prefer the ondrej packages.

    Question though.. when I add the ondrej repo and install PHP7.4, will it install alongside the already present php7.2? or will it update this and take thus removes it basically.
     
  11. ahrasis

    ahrasis Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    Sure. You can add php5.6, php7.1 and php7.3 as well alongside.

    No, but default php7.2 may be changed to the latest php7.4, as such, you might want to revert it manually thereafter or install monit and use it with some script like the one I shared in here to automatically restore default php7.2.
     
  12. exynenem

    exynenem Member

    I can also only suggest to use pre-compiled/packaged versions of PHP on any binary distribution like Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS....
    It's definitely easier to maintain (installation/update across multiple servers) than to use a self-compiled version. Your packages are also tracked by the package manager of your distribution and so you likely won't run into problems like overwriting a self-compiled version with a pre-compiled version or vice-versa.

    I'am a CentOS user and am using Remi Collet's PHP packages since a few years without any problem. Furthermore he supports often his packages with security patches even after the PHP support has reached EOL and in case that he drops the support completely then I can still use his source rpms as a base to create my very own "LTS" packages.

    Guys, there is a reason why package managers/utils were invented...
     
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  13. Neptun

    Neptun Member

    pkg via Ondřej Surý is 100% recommended - i use it since years & it works without any issue with a lot of updates & patches and you cannot forget/have any delay with anything important & no lack of security

    has anybody already tested with debian 10 & nginx ?
    Any better performance or other interessting things found maybe ?
     
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  14. ahrasis

    ahrasis Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    Ubuntu 18.04 + nginx - not much better I'd say but it is improving.
     
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    shadowcast New Member

  16. ahrasis

    ahrasis Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    It seems like you try to compile it yourself.

    I personally don't self compile anymore, instead I use Ondrej Sury php repo.
     
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  17. gOOvER

    gOOvER Member

    nothing better than Ondrej Repro :) I use´it since a long time
     
  18. How to activate Ondrej Repo on Debian?
     
  19. Steini86

    Steini86 Active Member

    https://packages.sury.org/php/README.txt
    Code:
    apt -y install apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates curl
    wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg
    sh -c 'echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list'
    apt update
     
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  20. Keen Mouse

    Keen Mouse New Member

    Is there a tutorial for if you install PHP 7.4 from the Ondrej repository instead of compiling? I have 7.4 installed now, but the paths are different from the compilation tutorial and I'm not sure what steps to include or omit.
     

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