Posted by Pugi! on 07/17/07 12:06

It is easy to install a webserver with Scientific Linux (SL) (= Red
Hat Enterprise Linux clone), but more and more we are having trouble
because the versions that come with either SL4.4 (PHP 4.3.9) or SL5.0
(PHP5.1.6) are not recent enough to use current versions of third
party software (for example Mapserver needs PHP 4.4.6 or 5.2.1). I've
installed LAMP manually before, but that was at home, not for a
production environment. I would like to keep on using SL, the apache
and mysql that comes with it are ok too, but what is the best means to
install a more recent version of PHP (5.2.1 or maybe even the 5.2.3)
and how do you update/maintain it ? With PHP I am not only referring
to the php module, but also to php-soap, php-pear, php-mbstring, php-
mcrypt, php-mysql, php-cli, php-pdo, ...

thanx,

JM

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