PHP Upgrade

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PHP Upgradation

Links:

http://helpinlinux.com/tag/upgrade-php-to-5-3-5-centos-rhel-steps/

http://www.andresmontalban.com/update-centos-5-php-5-1-to-php-5-3/

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm

yum --enablerepo=remi update php php-*

Hence issue with mysql came ...

file /etc/my.cnf from install of mysql-libs-5.5.27-1.el5.remi.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_5.3.i386

So, Take backup of mysql

mysqldump -u root -psys_0510 --all-databases > all_database.sql

mysqldump -u root -psys_0510 --all-databases --compatible=mysql40 > versioncompatible-all_databases.sql 

Stop Qmail on teh server

vi /etc/inittab ; init q

Stop Spamassassin

/etc/init.d/spamd stop

Stop Mysql

/etc/init.d/mysqld stop

Remove mysql

yum remove mysql 

Then Install PHP amd Mysql

yum --enablerepo=remi update php php-*

yum --enablerepo=remi install php php-common php-pear php-pdo php-mysql php-pgsql php-pecl-memcache php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml php-imap php-devel php-odbc php-bcmath php-ldap

yum --enablerepo=remi install  mysql-server mysql-connector-odbc

Start Mysql

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

Start Spamassassin

/etc/init.d/spamd start

Start Qmail

vi /etc/inittab ; init q