Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:55:50 +0100 From: Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 -> PHP 5.3.x Message-ID: <4E8DEBA6.4050902@ifdnrg.com> In-Reply-To: <1A8828A857424EFDBBD748D48DF3512B@GRANTDESKTOP> References: <1A8828A857424EFDBBD748D48DF3512B@GRANTDESKTOP>
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On 06/10/2011 16:55, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > Short of upgrading the OS, what is the safest way to upgrade a FreeBSD server to PHP 5.3.x from 5.2.11 ? > I am assuming downloading the ports tarball and rebuilding and reinstalling will do it? > Any advice, samples would be appreciated, > -Grant > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > It's not too traumatic an upgrade, and initially is as simple as you suggest, remember to uninstall extenstions via the meta port lang/php52-extensions (and reinstall desired extensions via lang/php5-extensions) further suggestions, * *copy the config make options from phpinfo() on 5.2 as it'll help you remember what you need for 5.3. keep a copy of you php.ini obv also. check http://uk3.php.net/migration53 you'll likely know but 5.3 is quite different from 5.2 so there's a few gotchas, such as changes to log levels, no more register globals, you must explicitly use $_POST or $_GET no more register_long_arrays, you cannot use $HTTP_POST_VARS short tags are probably off round about that version, if i recall, there was some changes to a lot of my $_SESSION code so check any code that uses that, (but this could well have been my implementations.) good luck Paul.
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