PHP 5.3 / PLESK 9.x

[awpti]

Couldn't find anything in the forum search..

Can PHP 5.3 be used with PLESK 9.x+ successfully?

I can't find a solid answer in relation to Linux - all posts regarding successful upgrades are related to PLESK/Windows.

[scott]

Yes it can, fedora 11 ships with it by default in fact

[aus-city]

php-5.3.2 (currently) runs perfectly with plesk 9.3 onwards. I only say 9.3 as that was the version of plesk running when php was updated.

Not a single issue.

If you upgrade to php-5.3.x, dont forget safe mode is depreciated. Its been planned to depreciate in the 5.2 release. Its now just enforced in 5.3 If you try to enable it, you just get errors in cron jobs and httpd logs. It still runs fine but just makes for a lot of log data warning its depreciated.

Also timezone is no longer supported by simply using the server time, you need to specify the timezone now in php.ini (also planned depreciation in 5.2 now enforced in 5.3).

I found not many issues at all. All the bulletin board stuff, joomla (as long as your 1.5x releases) all support 5.3

Example in php.ini of setting a timezone (you should be doing this now as its technically depreciated now, its enforced in 5.3)

date.timezone = Australia/Sydney

[awpti]

Fantastic!

Are there any prebuilt RPM packages floating around?

Haven't seen any in RPMForge, DAG or Atomic.

[aus-city]

Take the fedora 12 srpm and just rpmbuild on your server. I even built it fir a clients old fc7 server.

If you need a hand yell it's not hard to build them at all.

[scott]

You cannot rebuild the fedora rpms for centos without making modifications. There are some internal architecture & compiler issues you have to take into account to get a functional package. There are some test packages in atomic-testing if you want to get involved in.