PHP 5.4 rpm-package available and ready for production?

[stephan-zrh]

hello everyone,

I am setting up Plesk 10 on Centos 6.2.

I'll install PHP 5.2 as fcgi-Version for a smooth migration of our customers and would like to offer PHP 5.4 as the alternative, rather than the default PHP 5.3.

Are there PHP 5.4-Packages available and are they reliable for production already or is it still too early?
I did find some packages in a repo from Remi, but have never heard of him before and would like to avoid any sort of conflict..

regards -Stephan

[scott]

I might have some in atomic-testing today if you want to vet them against app compatibility. Thats usually the hold up, just waiting for all the php apps to catch up with the latest changes.

[stephan-zrh]

Thanks for the fast reply!

I'll gladly give it a shot. I can always downgrade back to 5.3 if necessary.. but if possible, I'd really like to just move ahead to 5.4.

Kind regards -Stephan

[breun]

There are quite a number of backwards incompatible changes in PHP 5.4 (they also removed a bunch of features). Of course you're free to test it, but I'd read up on the changes first.

Migrating from PHP 5.3.x to PHP 5.4.x
http://php.net/migration54

[stephan-zrh]

Thanks for the info. Our migration would actually be PHP 5.2 directly to PHP 5.4, at least that's what I had imagined.

Our old servers are still running PHP 5.2 and on our new servers, PHP 5.2 will be installed as fcgi-Version (and configured as default for all hostings) and PHP 5.4 would be installed as module. The customers can switch back and forth and test as they wish.

I thought this would be the easiest and most future-proof...but I'm not sure, because 5.4 is still so young...

regards -Stephan

[faris]

considering 5.4 does not have safe mode, using it as a module adds some risk compared to using it as fastcgi, I would think?

If you are skilled enough to be able to install two versions (I am not ) maybe think about using mod_ruid2 with the module version? Just a suggestion. I'm avoiding mod_ruid2 even though I'd much prefer it to php-fastcgi as I have some strange idea then when Parallels finally adds native mod_ruid2 to Plesk (not in v11 - maybe 12?) it will add some pain to the transition if I already have a version installed.

[stephan-zrh]

Yes, I have mod_ruid2 installed for the module-version and also got the 'Run PHP as User' addon for Plesk... seems to work great, as far as I can see.

I compiled php5.2 as cgi-version and added a separate handler in apache. Users can now switch back and forth simply by adding 'AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php .php5' to their .htaccess.

Without that line it's php 5.3 (currently) and with that line it runs php5.2 in /opt/php52/bin..

[faris]

very cool.

[stephan-zrh]

And just to close this topic: We'll be going with PHP 5.3...