On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Always Learning <centos at u61.u22.net> wrote: > > If one stays with Centos 5.x (currently on 5.6) is the > problem/enhancement/incompatibility involving PHP53 likely to be > resolved by general updates and/or the introduction of Centos 5.7 ? > > Paul. You can download the source package and compile the module. This doesn't require as many many devel dependencies on a production system as it would to rebuild the php rpm. You will need to repeat this for php upgrades. The only unpackaged files installed on your system besides the files in /usr/src/redhat, which can be deleted, are mcrypt.so and mcrypt.ini. yum install php53-devel libmcrypt-devel cd wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.6/updates/SRPMS/php53-5.3.3-1.el5_6.1.src.rpm mkdir /usr/src/redhat rpm -i php53-5.3.3-1.el5_6.1.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat bunzip2 php-5.3.3.tar.bz2 tar xf php-5.3.3.tar cd php-5.3.3/ext/mcrypt phpize aclocal ./configure make make install echo “extension=mcrypt.so” > /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini service httpd restart Ryan