Upgrading to PHP 5.3 or 5.4

[sararah]

I would like to upgrade my RHEL 5.X server (Currently running PHP 5.1.6) to PHP 5.3 or 5.4 so that I can run some other applications on the server. I tried this today and it totally borked phpScheduleIt. I got the error "cannot connect to DB"

Any tips on upgrading to higher versions of PHP? I was following a procedure similar to this: http://binit933x.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/how-i-updated-php-mysql-on-redhat-enterprise-linux-rhel-53/

I think MySQL must get updated in the process, so perhaps that is the issue?

Thanks!

[sararah]

Running MySQL version 5.0.77 currently.

When I tried to upgrade to PHP 5.4.x the first time I got some errors in MySQL dependencies but they may not be important (mainly looked like foreign language libraries).

[modaloois]

Nop,I don't think so.

[hadingrh]

How could this happened, sararah?
Have you check the connection settings (username, password, etc)?

                                           
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[travel2vietnam]

It depends which Linux distro. you are using.

You could try: yum update php

Or: sudo apt-get install php5-cgi php5-cli

I highly recommend you test your code on 5.4 before upgrading any live server as mostly likely there might be some breaking differences (as normal with most PHP upgrades).

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[htien88it]

I've never tried to manually build the php sources under linux.
If it is not urgent, I'd recommend to wait for the official package to be updated, I do not think it'll take much longer.
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