On 18/02/2010 13:06, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've just started looking after a (virtual) centos 5.4 server that's > hosted at rackspace and, unsurprisingly, it was set up with all the > standard defaults. part of the work i'll be doing involves php and, > as i read it, the standard php version with centos 5.4 is php-5.1. > > if i *wanted* to move up to a more recent version (say, php-5.3), > obviously, i'd need to go outside the limits of the standard centos > yum repos. in my travels, i ran across this site: > <snip> The CentOS testing repository has php-5.2 available if this would be any use to you. See here for instructions:- http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PHP_5.1_To_5.2 http://blog.bit-matrix.com/2009/10/22/how-to-install-php-52-on-centos-5/