Upgrading PHP 4.1.2

jplayer

RHEL 2.1 ES
Apache 1.3.27
MySQL 3.23.58
PHP 4.1.2

Hi,

Anybody can help me here? I'd like to upgrade PHP 4.1.2 to 4.3 or later but I can't seem to find an RPM for my old RHEL 2.1. Can I use just any other RPM for other distro, say Fedora or SuSe? Somebody told me to do it by source RPM, I just don't know how it is being done. Please help.

rachel2004

I haven't used RPMs for building out PHP, but why not just try using the Fedora one (if one is available) on a development RHEL and see if it works? I can't imagine that you are upgrading a production server without first testing on a development server, anyway.

jplayer

Nothing to worry though, the server's supposed to be a production server just it's still being setup. I mean, I don't make it online yet, not with all those old software packages it has.

While at this, please help me with mysql connection. I did tried compiling php 4.3.11 from source. I think it's basically functioning because I can open the test <?php phpinfo(); ?> file. My problem is I can't connect to MySQL from php. MySQL is running and I can connect to it in shell and add users and grant previleges in there. But I think PHP and mysql are not taking to each other.

Just some questions I'd like to clear:

Is php 4.3.11 compatible with mysql 3.23.58?
I used the --with-mysql configure option but I didn't supply the directory. It should be --with-mysql=<a directory> but just I don't know where to point it. Could this be the cause why they're not talking?

rachel2004

With your --mysql-configure statement, yes, you'll have to point it to the MySQL directory. On my system, it is located at /usr/local/mysql so I had done:

---with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

when I built out my Linux server. It could be different on your box, of course.

jplayer

I don't think it will cause a major problem for now. I was able to fix the connection problem. It has something to do with mysql.sock. Using shell, mysql looks for /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock but using php, it's using /tmp/mysql.sock. What I did was to use ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/lib/mysql/msql.sock and I am able to connect to mysql using shell and from a client browser via php.

Now my next problem is zlib. I did make a new zlib from source. And I used --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local --with-zlib among the ./configure options

But make doesn't seem to like it. It says ext/zlib/zlib.lo: file not recognized: File truncated

What's the meaning of this?

jplayer

Hey all,

I managed to get out of this sinkhole after several hours of searching and trying then analyzing a little and trying again much. I think my PHP is now stable.