CentOS - Feb 2006 - PHP upgrade from 4.3.9 to 4.4.2 or 5.x

Sorry - noob-ish question..

I have been having problems on a CentOS 4.2 server following an upgrade to
the latest version of SugarCRM (segfaults in Apache and some functions not
working). Someone has just posted in the SugarCRM forums that they had
exactly the same problems on CentOS 4.2 and they fixed them by upgrading
from PHP 4.3.9 to 5.0.5. 

Being a more cautious chap, I'd like to try an upgrade to PHP 4.4.2 first
but want to make sure I'm not entering a minefield with PHP as I can't
find
a friendly yum update so I would appreciate a heads-up on how best to go
about it without screwing the whole thing up  - I am reading through the
notes on the PHP web site but would appreciate it if someone would outline
exactly what rpms or binaries I need to install and/or compile. Assuming
4.4.2 doesn't fix things I will have to go for 5.0.5 so any advice on this
would be appreciated as the last thing I want to do is lose use of SugarCRM
completely!

Thanks in advance.

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 09:39 +0000, Nigel kendrick wrote:
> Sorry - noob-ish question..
> 
> I have been having problems on a CentOS 4.2 server following an upgrade to
> the latest version of SugarCRM (segfaults in Apache and some functions not
> working). Someone has just posted in the SugarCRM forums that they had
> exactly the same problems on CentOS 4.2 and they fixed them by upgrading
> from PHP 4.3.9 to 5.0.5. 
> 
> Being a more cautious chap, I'd like to try an upgrade to PHP 4.4.2
first
> but want to make sure I'm not entering a minefield with PHP as I
can't find
> a friendly yum update so I would appreciate a heads-up on how best to go
> about it without screwing the whole thing up  - I am reading through the
> notes on the PHP web site but would appreciate it if someone would outline
> exactly what rpms or binaries I need to install and/or compile. Assuming
> 4.4.2 doesn't fix things I will have to go for 5.0.5 so any advice on
this
> would be appreciated as the last thing I want to do is lose use of SugarCRM
> completely!
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
I haven't used that app (so I don't know if the advise is sound) ... but
there is a CentOS built (though unsupported) version of php-5 in the
CentOSPlus repository:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/Readme.txt

Unsupported is a relative term ... it is a better fit for CentOS-4 than
just about any other way to get php-5.

If you are going to enable the centosplus repo, I highly recommend that
you read:

man yum.conf

And that you set up the centosplus section of /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-
Base.repo with a line like this:

installonlypkgs=php*

(if you want other packages from the CentOS Plus repo, also add them to
the install only section using spaces between packages)

Also, I would put this line in the [base] and [updates] sections of the
file:

exclude=php*

(excluding any other centosplus packages is also recommended ... again,
spaces between packages on the exclude line in the [base] and [updates]
repo)

There are also instructions in the Readme.txt file that discuss php-
domxml .. that file does not exist in php-5.x so you have to remove it
by hand to upgrade.
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I haven't used that app (so I don't know if the advise is sound) ... but
there is a CentOS built (though unsupported) version of php-5 in the
CentOSPlus repository:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/Readme.txt

Unsupported is a relative term ... it is a better fit for CentOS-4 than just
about any other way to get php-5.

If you are going to enable the centosplus repo, I highly recommend that you
read:

man yum.conf

And that you set up the centosplus section of /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-
Base.repo with a line like this:

installonlypkgs=php*

(if you want other packages from the CentOS Plus repo, also add them to the
install only section using spaces between packages)

Also, I would put this line in the [base] and [updates] sections of the
file:

exclude=php*

(excluding any other centosplus packages is also recommended ... again,
spaces between packages on the exclude line in the [base] and [updates]
repo)

There are also instructions in the Readme.txt file that discuss php- domxml
.. that file does not exist in php-5.x so you have to remove it by hand to
upgrade.



Thanks Johnny - I had a good read of 'teh Internets' and opted for an
install of 4.4.2 and this seems to have fixed the problem with SugarCRM
(subject to some final testing).

I had to wade through quite a few dependency errors during the configure and
make but the forum thread below was extremely useful: 

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-114170.html