On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 09:39 +0000, Nigel kendrick wrote:

Sorry - noob-ish question..

I have been having problems on a CentOS 4.2 server following an upgrade to the latest version of SugarCRM (segfaults in Apache and some functions not working). Someone has just posted in the SugarCRM forums that they had exactly the same problems on CentOS 4.2 and they fixed them by upgrading from PHP 4.3.9 to 5.0.5.

Being a more cautious chap, I'd like to try an upgrade to PHP 4.4.2 first but want to make sure I'm not entering a minefield with PHP as I can't find a friendly yum update so I would appreciate a heads-up on how best to go about it without screwing the whole thing up - I am reading through the notes on the PHP web site but would appreciate it if someone would outline exactly what rpms or binaries I need to install and/or compile. Assuming 4.4.2 doesn't fix things I will have to go for 5.0.5 so any advice on this would be appreciated as the last thing I want to do is lose use of SugarCRM completely!

Thanks in advance.

I haven't used that app (so I don't know if the advise is sound) ... but there is a CentOS built (though unsupported) version of php-5 in the CentOSPlus repository:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/Readme.txt

Unsupported is a relative term ... it is a better fit for CentOS-4 than just about any other way to get php-5.

If you are going to enable the centosplus repo, I highly recommend that you read:

man yum.conf

And that you set up the centosplus section of /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS- Base.repo with a line like this:

installonlypkgs=php*

(if you want other packages from the CentOS Plus repo, also add them to the install only section using spaces between packages)

Also, I would put this line in the [base] and [updates] sections of the file:

exclude=php*

(excluding any other centosplus packages is also recommended ... again, spaces between packages on the exclude line in the [base] and [updates] repo)

There are also instructions in the Readme.txt file that discuss php- domxml .. that file does not exist in php-5.x so you have to remove it by hand to upgrade.