[CentOS] PHP 5.2 on Centos4

Thu Jan 22 20:57:06 UTC 2009
John Clement <jc at m4-p.com>

2009/1/22 Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>:
> John Clement wrote:
>> Bit of an emergency as I'm told this laptop has to leave here in 15 minutes,
>> I've gone ahead and configured, made, installed PHP 5.2 but an httpd restart
>> still only sees the old PHP 5.0.4, I think there's a fairly simple way to
>> get it to find the 5.2 version I've just installed but can't think what.
>
> That's an easy one: Install it correctly.
>
>> Any help gratefully received!
>
> Did you remove the old one? Is the new one in the right place? Does httpd
> know about it? Why do you compile software on your own when you don't know
> how to do it correctly? Questions, questions, questions ...
>
> Ralph
>
> PS: This mail wouldn't have been that harsh had you given *any* information
>        on what you did. But you didn't. And above is what my crystal ball told me
>        to write.

Sorry if I riled you with the lack of information, I was under
pressure to get it done quickly and only asked incase someone knew the
answer off the top of their head based on it being a 'normal' install
just enabling a few options.