I need php7.2 for a phpbb board, as I get this error Code: You are running an unsupported PHP version. Please upgrade to PHP equal to or greater than 5.4.7 but less than 7.3-dev in order to install or update to phpBB 3.2 I found this, https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-php-7-on-debian/ But I am on Debian 10, will it still work?
You can install 7.2 and other versions from sury.org, see https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial...fig-3-from-debian-packages-on-debian-8-and-9/ for some direction. That tutorial could use a little updating, but read the comments and it'll get you through.
That looked a real mess and no mention of Debian 10, however I did find this, https://github.com/SergiX44/ISPC-PHPCompiler Tested on a Hyper-V server and it works perfect, will install on the VPS in next few days.
Nowadays it could be very hard to keep up on each and every php security update which occurs every now and then via compiling it, so using sury repository is the best for most of debian or ubuntu or its derivative users. However, as always, that is a matter of each user's preference, so your choice could be the best for you.
Well, compiling yourself on many servers takes ages. The compiler is bugged if you also want 5.6 and 7.0. I tried that, and jumped to sury.org. it's not a mess.
I would do what @Jesse Norell recommended, the installation on Debian 10 is basically the same than on Debian 8 and 9. I would not compile PHP anymore myself, I use the sury repo on my Debian servers.
I agree about compiling, but on the sury guide there are so many comments with people having problems and suggestions of changes to the guide it put me off, when I ran the SergiX44 script from github it just worked first time. I have yet to do this on my production VPS (only on a Hyper-V test server) If there is a sure way to do it properly I will.
You cant do uninstall easy with apt if selfcompiled, only manual. Oh, and it WILL break when updating Debian to new version, "been there, done that". So you must selfcomplie again, if possible, which it was not with 5.6 and 7.0. Sury.org updated 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 perfectly when i did Debian 9 to Debian 10. You have been warned. Good Luck anyway.
Btw. The tutorial to install PHP from sury is fine, used it on different servers, don't trust comments under tutorials, especially when ISPConfig core devs and well-known community members tell you to use it As @elmacus pointed out, you will have to compile PHP again now for each update.
OK that got my attention so I restored my original hyper-V install before updating php and followed the sury guide, all seemed to go well untill I tried to install phpbb, it would not see the database (checked db passwords etc) looking around the phpbb forum someone suggested running this command with no explanation as to why. apt-get install php7.2-mysql I wanted 7.2 as thats the latest supportd by phpbb, so I ran it and it worked, can anyone shed any light as to what happened? Oh and thanks all btw
You have to install the PHP modules that you want to use of course for the PHP versions that you install. Check the software requirements of the software that you want to use and install all required PHP modules for that software.
I just install all PHP-modules from guide, works for me and our custumers: https://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-10-buster-apache-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3-1/ Just replace with correct php- version like: # install php 7.2 apt install php7.2 php7.2-common php7.2-gd php7.2-mysql php7.2-imap php7.2-cli php7.2-cgi php7.2-curl php7.2-intl php7.2-pspell php7.2-recode php7.2-sqlite3 php7.2-tidy php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-xsl php7.2-zip php7.2-mbstring php7.2-soap php7.2-fpm php7.2-opcache a2enconf php7.2-fpm systemctl reload apache2 Optional, do this first: #delete old selfcompile php 7.2 systemctl stop php72-fpm.service systemctl disable php72-fpm.service insserv -r php72-fpm rm /etc/init.d/php72-fpm rm /lib/systemd/system/php72-fpm.service rm /usr/bin/php72 rm -rf /opt/php72
