Anyone here who can say for sure that when I add PHP5 the way it's done here (http://www.howtoforge.com/apache2_with_php5_and_php4) it will not break anything in my ISPconfig server setup? I'm using Debian Etch with at the moment a nice working ISPconfig and PHP4 version on Apache2 One of my new sites on the server needs PHP5, so thats why I want to add it to the system.
The howto should work fine with ISPConfig. But the howto installs mod_php and runs php4 as cgi. If you do not want to change all your sites to mod_php5, you should consider to just install the "php5-cgi" package from debian and do not touch your php4 installation at all.
so just installing php5-cgi will give the wanted result? and how can I chose which virtual host uses which version? or can I let the clients decide that? do I also have to install all other needed php5 modules? can anything else break?
Please have a look at the guide that edge linked too. It explains which directives are nescessary to switch the PHP version. The only thing that I recommended is to use php5 as cgi instead of php4 as cgi for the situation that edge described. I dont know your current installation, so the guide might fit perfectly for you or the modification that I recommended might apply to you too. Do you currently run mod_php4 or mod_php5 ?
Then I recommend to just install php5-cgi and all PHP-modules that you need. Make sure that you NOT install libapache2-mod-php5 to get not in conflicts with your current php4 installation. you should be able to enable php5 in a website by adding the following in the apache directives field: AddHandler php-script .php Action php-script /cgi-bin/php5 If this does not work, the second line might be something like "Action php-script /cgi-bin/php5-cgi", this depends on the name of the php5 cgi binary. In websites where you want to enable php5, make sure that the checkboxes for cgi and php and php-safemode are NOT enabled.
ok, thx. that sounds almost too easy but what will happen, if I do like you said and uncheck cgi => will that user somehow still be able to use cgi Scripts? you also said: this depends on the name of the php5 cgi how can I find this out? simply locate php5 | grep cgi? and besides this, another problem related to the paid support falko did for me some weeks ago (you should know about, you billed me , there is still a small open issue but he seems to be busy, so could I just send you a short PM regarding this?
No. If he needs cgi access too, you will have to create a symlink from the local cgi-bin directory of the user to the php5-cgi binary. As far as I know, it must be one of the two names that I posted. I was not aware of that and I'am pretty sure that falko is not aware too that there is something missing. Please send me a email to support [at] projektfarm [dot] de and I will have a look at this.
its actually not an outstanding issue, its just that I asked him for dokumentation about a small thing which will reoccur everytime I update php which is quite often, and as I don't want to ask /pay for support each time this happens, I asked him how he compiled eaccelerator - I had a long thread about this before deciding to get paid support, and now after the last php4 debian update I am again unable to compile eaccelerator. I am sure I am doing something wrong. please check out this thread: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12275 thats all. I just brought it up as he had not yet answered to my pm and I know he's busy so this could take a long time. thx for your time and help.
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