Manual in upgrading Plesk 8.3.0 from PHP 4 to PHP 5

Mik2000 · Unread post by **Mik2000** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:16 pm

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

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:53 am

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.

Mik2000 · Unread post by **Mik2000** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:01 am

Thanks

Are you just loging into SSH and writes these thing?

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:07 am

That's basically the idea, yes.

Mik2000 · Unread post by **Mik2000** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:18 am

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

Mik2000 · Unread post by **Mik2000** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:22 am

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

Mik2000 · Unread post by **Mik2000** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:26 am

Sorry all the quistions - I am a totally noob about this

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:50 am

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.

Mik2000 · Unread post by **Mik2000** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:51 pm

Is it then impossible to upgrade for me?

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:11 pm

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.