PHP 5.2.17 to 5.3

[g00gl3r]

I've borrowed a shared hosting account that's running php 5.3 just to play around with this. I doubt I'll be upgrading my forums to it for a good 18 months if at all. It's a totally different product and I may as well look at other cheaper more stable and established options to be honest too.

[oldz442]

What sort of things?

Below is copied from a post I made a while ago after the issue was resolved. Still to this day, some of my custom PHP scripts do not work.

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Followed the steps in the @scottej23 post @ link above (from the command line as I don’t have a ctl panel setup). Worked, but broke several things. ie. PEAR and MCRYPT. Found the below sites and commands which seemed to fix pear/mcrypt. I still have some other broken things though. ie. my custom PHP scripts are not working in some areas (getting division by zero among other errs).

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http://inderpreetsingh.com/2011/03/2...aditional-way/

Install the older php-pear via yum install php-pear and than run the following commands:

pear upgrade –force Console_Getopt
pear upgrade –force pear
pear upgrade-all

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http://www.excaliburtech.net/archives/222

yum install php53-devel libmcrypt-devel gcc
cd
wget http://vault.centos.org/5.6/updates/...l5_6.1.src.rpm
mkdir /usr/src/redhat
rpm -i php53-5.3.3-1.el5_6.1.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
bunzip2 php-5.3.3.tar.bz2
tar xf php-5.3.3.tar
cd php-5.3.3/ext/mcrypt
phpize
aclocal
./configure
make
make install
echo “extension=mcrypt.so” > /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini
service httpd restart

[g00gl3r]

With my host:


I included it only in the vB5 folder's .htaccess file

Seems the way we have cPanel setup, we can't do this.

[Hartmut]

You shouldnt have any problems.

[g00gl3r]

Thanks mate. Checking now.

[beishe8]

With my host:

We currently have 5.3.10 (or higher) installed on all servers. A handler for
PHP 5.3 is added to our shared and reseller servers for those who wish to
utilize it. In order to utilize this handler, you will need to add the following
code to your .htaccess file:

# Use PHP 5.3
AddType application/x-httpd-php53 .php

I included it only in the vB5 folder's .htaccess file

[g00gl3r]

Yes mate basically.

How would one go about doing that? My host is pretty flexible I'm sure they'd be able to do it if its possible.

[beishe8]

Just bought a 5 connect to play around.

Turns out I'm running PHP 5.2.17 so can't install it without upgrading.

Do you think if I did, it'd break anything with VB4?

So you want to have vB4 and vB5 on the same server and afraid to break something with PHP 5.3?
You may be able to run vB4 with PHP 5.2 and vB5 with PHP 5.3 on the same server, it depends on your host.

[g00gl3r]

Not sure, but when I upgraded to 5.3, I broke several other non-forum related things. Fixed them all except one issue.

What sort of things?

[Stancher]

Thanx

[oldz442]

Not sure, but when I upgraded to 5.3, I broke several other non-forum related things. Fixed them all except one issue.

[Zachery]

You'd be fine.

[g00gl3r]

Just bought a 5 connect to play around.

Turns out I'm running PHP 5.2.17 so can't install it without upgrading.

Do you think if I did, it'd break anything with VB4?