upgrading php

Workin2SailMore

I am considering upgrading my apache and/or php. I have been reading today about this and I keep hearing rumblings that there are some compatability issues between apache 2.0 and some versions of PHP. I was considering upgrading from php 4.2.2 to 4.3.3. Does anyone have an informaiton that would be helpful to me?

Also, what is involved in upgrading PHP. I looked all over www.php.net and could not find a single article about upgrading. Perhaps it is there and I just could not find it.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

LordShryku

Couple tips here to get someone to answer ya....

You're upgrading. Great. Is this Windows? Linux? OSX? BSD? Solaris? You get the idea.

Said you may upgrade Apache also. What version you running currently?

Is this a production server? If not, why you asking? Try it out. See for yourself what works good and what doesn't. A hundred yokels here will give you a hundred different opinions and experiences. Best to form your own

Workin2SailMore

Sorry, I thought I mentioned that this was a Linux 9.0 with the default setting from the initial install. It is a production server and I really don't want to upgrade, but I am experiencing some flaky stuff and want to eliminate the possibility of an older version.

As I type this, I am setting up a new drive in another computer to try to test this stuff out.

Do you know what is involved in upgrading? Do I download the rpm and just run it? Do I download source and compile then do something? I have installed php from scratch before, but never upgraded so I am unsure about what is involved.

Thanks for any suggestions.

LordShryku

Well, with red hat, you could just go the RPM route, and shouldn't have any trouble. Try running up2date. Should be able to get the latest RPM from there. What kind of flaky stuff is happening if ya don't mind me asking

Workin2SailMore

I don't mind sharing my woes. This is probrably a lot more information than you wanted, but I am desperate for a solution.

I have two production servers running the exact same version of Linux (9.0), Apache (2.0.40) and PHP (4.2.2)

I have a web application running on both servers. Last week we needed to enhance the app to allow users to upload images and pdf files.

I first implemented a PHP form with form field of file. It will only upload small files. Anything bigger than 10K, it corrupts and ends up being about twice the size it should be.

I spend three days reading about apache and php configuration issues. I then decided to implement a temporary interim solution. So I created a perl script, also utilizing the apache form/file method. That page also will upload small files. But when I try to upload anything greater than 7k it just hangs uploading the file. Therefore, I am inclinded to suspect apache as the problem.

FYI, I have another server running Apache 1.3.27 and php 4.2.3 and both scripts (the php and the perl) work correctly on it. I even uploaded a 6 meg file using both with no problem.

If you know anyone who might have some suggestions, my stuff is configured as:

My PHP has the following configuration:
php.conf has SetOutputFilter PHP, SetInputFilter PHP, LimitRequestBody 35000000

php.ini has the following configuration after tweaking everything I could think of:
always_populate_raw_post_data = true
default_charset no value
default_mimetype = text/html
max_execution_time = 3600
memory_limit = 16000000
post_max_size = 16000000
register_globals = on
upload_max_filesize = 35000000

My Form Code is:
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action ="upload2.php" method="POST"><hr>
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="16000000">
<input name="userfile" type="FILE" size="45">
<input type="submit" value="Send File"><br>

</form>

My upload php file contains the following:
if (is_uploaded_file($FILES['userfile']['tmp_name']))
{
// move the file to the permenant dir
$IMGPATH = "/var/www/html/cust/images/";
$fullname = $IMGPATH . $FILES['userfile']['name'];
copy($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $fullname );
}

Thanks for any suggestions.