I am a noob at servers and stuff but I've managed to get a live working webserver. And all thanks to ISPConfig for which from now on till forever will be my site management software of choice! Kudos! I wrote my first PHP page on my personal computer with Abyss Webserver and PHP5 for Windows. Works great for testing and learning. Wasn't very hard to learn I guess cause I've already got some skill in C++ and the structure is extremely similar. I wrote the script using a function only available in PHP5: filter_var. Great function because it will help keep maliciouse attackers from injecting bad code into my site passed through form data and whatnot. My problem is that the live server is still only running PHP4, and I've already installed ISPConfig, SquirrelMail, etc... I've tried using yum update php and apt-get update php but neither one seems to be pointed at a live repository. I downloaded the source for the latest PHP5 and ran the standard unzip, untar, ./configure, make, and make test. Its the "make install" that's giving me the jitters. While it was doing the configure and make stuff, I did more research online and found that there are a fair amount of PHP4 to PHP5 issues. then this happened: Code: FAILED TEST SUMMARY --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug #38474 (getAttribute select attribute by order, even when prefixed) (OK to fail with libxml2 < 2.6.2x) [e] Bug #16069 (ICONV transliteration failure) [ext/iconv/tests/bug16069.phpt] iconv stream filter [ext/iconv/tests/iconv_stream_filter.phpt] My concerns are if its even possible to install PHP5 on top of PHP4 and not break everything else in the process and having to wipe the harddrive and spend another 2 weeks getting it back up again? It wouldn't be a problem to take the httpd down for a while but the mailserver needs to be up 24/7. If I can't install PHP5 on my live server, is there an alternative to the filter_var function? I'll take any help I can get at this point, I am at my wits end. On another note: Can someone point me to a FAQ that shows step-by-step-by-step-by-step how to get yum and apt-get to point to a live repository? I can't tell you how many times I've googled yum and apt and only found threads and faqs to broken repositories and mirrors, or atleast they don't work for me or I'm not doing it right somehow.
Which Fedora version do you use? You can search for PHP5 packages like this: Code: yum search php and then install them like this: Code: yum install [I]package1 package2 ...[/I]
Had to look how to find which Fedora Core 4 version I have... Code: [root@somerandomdomain /]# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.0.0 20050525 (Red Hat 4.0.0-9)) #1 Thu Jun 2 22:55:56 EDT 2005 Coolness! Didn't realize yum had a search function, thought only apt had one. NICE! Now I feel like more of an noob/idiot! I did the "yum search php" thing and out popped approximately 3 quadrillion lines of text. I've condensed it to dis include the text descriptions and excludes anything not PHP related (I think). Code: php.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php php-devel.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-devel php-pear.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-pear php-imap.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-imap php-ldap.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-ldap php-mysql.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-mysql php-pgsql.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-pgsql php-odbc.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-odbc php-soap.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-soap php-snmp.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-snmp php-xml.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-xml php-xmlrpc.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-xmlrpc php-mbstring.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-mbstring php-ncurses.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-ncurses php-gd.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-gd php-bcmath.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-bcmath php-dba.i386 5.0.4-10 core Matched from: php-dba libc-client.i386 2002e-9 core Matched from: php-pear-excel.noarch 0.8-1.2.fc4 freshrpms Matched from: php-pear-excel php-pear-ole.noarch 0.5-2.2.fc4 freshrpms Matched from: php-pear-ole php.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php php-devel.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-devel Files needed for building PHP extensions. php-pear.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-pear php-imap.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-imap php-ldap.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-ldap php-mysql.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-mysql php-pgsql.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-pgsql php-odbc.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-odbc php-soap.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-soap php-snmp.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-snmp php-xml.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-xml php-xmlrpc.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-xmlrpc php-mbstring.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-mbstring php-ncurses.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-ncurses php-gd.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-gd php-bcmath.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-bcmath php-dba.i386 5.0.4-10.5 updates Matched from: php-dba libc-client.i386 2002e-17 updates Matched from: jpgraph.noarch 2.0-1.fc4 extras Matched from: jpgraph-doc.noarch 2.0-1.fc4 extras Matched from: mod_suphp.i386 0.5.2-8.fc4 extras Matched from: mod_suphp php-Smarty.noarch 2.6.13-1.fc4 extras Matched from: php-Smarty php-adodb.noarch 4.80-1.fc4 extras Matched from: php-adodb php-dbase.i386 5.0.4-3.fc4 extras Matched from: php-dbase php-json.i386 1.1.0-1.fc4 extras Matched from: php-json php-mcrypt.i386 5.0.4-3.fc4 extras Matched from: php-mcrypt php-mhash.i386 5.0.4-3.fc4 extras Matched from: php-mhash php-pecl-mailparse.i386 2.1.1-1.fc4 extras Matched from: php-pecl-mailparse php-pecl-pdo.i386 0.3-2.fc4 extras Matched from: php-pecl-pdo php-pecl-pdo-devel.i386 0.3-2.fc4 extras Matched from: php-pecl-pdo-devel php-pecl-pdo-sqlite.i386 0.3-3.fc4 extras Matched from: php-pecl-pdo-sqlite php-readline.i386 5.0.4-3.fc4 extras Matched from: php-readline php-tidy.i386 5.0.4-3.fc4 extras Matched from: php-tidy phpldapadmin.noarch 0.9.8.3-1.fc4 extras Matched from: phpldapadmin lighttpd-fastcgi.i386 1.4.11-1.fc4 extras Matched from: php-gd.i386 5.0.4-10.5 installed Matched from: php-gd php-odbc.i386 5.0.4-10.5 installed Matched from: php-odbc php-xmlrpc.i386 5.0.4-10.5 installed Matched from: php-xmlrpc php-ldap.i386 5.0.4-10.5 installed Matched from: php-ldap php-pear.i386 5.0.4-10.5 installed Matched from: php-pear php.i386 5.0.4-10.5 installed Matched from: php php-xml.i386 5.0.4-10.5 installed Matched from: php-xml php-mysql.i386 5.0.4-10.5 installed Matched from: php-mysql php-imap.i386 5.0.4-10.5 installed Matched from: php-imap libc-client.i386 2002e-17 installed Matched from: php-devel.i386 5.0.4-10.5 installed Matched from: php-devel Which ones should I install?
At least php. The rest depends on what features you need in PHP, If you need MySQL support in PHP, for example, you should also install php-mysql.
