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Manual in upgrading Plesk 8.3.0 from PHP 4 to PHP 5
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:16 pm
by Mik2000
Hi
Are there any manual or something like that for dummies, describing how to upgrade PHP 4.3 to PHP 5, on a server with Plesk 8.3 - without risking to loose data/settings?
Looking forward to your replies
Best Regard
Kim
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:53 am
by breun
http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/PHP
If you use special settings, make sure to move them over to the new php.ini for PHP 5.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:01 am
by Mik2000
Thanks
Are you just loging into SSH and writes these thing?
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:07 am
by breun
That's basically the idea, yes.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:18 am
by Mik2000
Hi again
Should it be possible without having any problems on:
Plesk version psa v8.3.0_build83071218.18 os_SuSE 9.3
Operating system Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default
and will the server be down ehile upgrading?
Best regards
Kim
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:22 am
by Mik2000
This line:
wget -q -O -
http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh |sh
Should it be written as it stand here?
... because there are an arrow in the line in the article going in both directions
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:26 am
by Mik2000
Sorry all the quistions - I am a totally noob about this
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:50 am
by breun
Atomic Rocket Turtle doesn't support SuSE. So no, these instructions will not work for you. Only Red Hat-style distributions (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora) are supported around here.
By the way, that arrow is a wiki icon indicating an external link. That's not something you should try to type on a terminal.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:51 pm
by Mik2000
Is it then impossible to upgrade for me?
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:11 pm
by breun
It's not impossible, but Atomic Rocket Turtle doesn't have any packages for SuSE.
There are generally three ways to get Plesk and PHP 5:
* Install Plesk on a distribution that comes with PHP 5 (e.g. RHEL/CentOS 5, Fedora 4 or later, I don't know what version of SuSE)
* Install third-party PHP 5 packages for your distribution (e.g. ART for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, dotdeb for Debian, ??? for SuSE)
* Compile your own PHP 5 packages if you know how to do this and not break Plesk (installing from source instead of installing packages will not work with Plesk)
I'm not too familiar with SuSE, but SuSE 9.3 has reached End of Life (April 2007) according to
http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Linux_Lifetime, so you might want to look into migrating to a supported OS and choosing one that comes with PHP 5 natively.