How do I upgrade PHP?

[chris1979]

I want to upgrade to vb4 but it means I need to upgrade PHP on my server.

My hosting company offers zero support so I need to do it myself (or get a new hosting company!).

It's a CentOS environment and I have SSH access.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[Lynne]

Hire someone (that's my way :) )? Or google?

[dtv100]

if by any chance you are using directadmin you can go to there forum and read in the how to section.

[chris1979]

I would be happy to hire someone but knowing who to trust (with my root password, etc.) is also an issue. I think it is quite easy to do this, from my googling, but I cannot quite work it out.

I don't user directadmin.

[Angel-Wings]

Locate your php.ini and back it up - then something like:

rpm -U --test php

to see which version is available from the repositories and then without the "--test" to do the upgrade. Then again the same with all required extensions and dependant packages.
Finally merge the old and new php.ini and restart your Webserver :)

[motowebmaster]

One common way is to change your yum repositories. This one works with CENTOS:

http://www.atomicorp.com/channels/atomic/

It's simple, but you would want to do a bit of research before attempting the change. I've seen some posts from others who had a great deal of difficulty doing this.

However, one has to weigh the benefits. I'm still running vb4 only as a test site :erm: