Posted by Dave Gutteridge on 09/19/05 15:17

PHP General List,

First, let me say that while I have been scripting with PHP and MySQL
for my web sites for a few years, I have never configured or installed
either PHP or MySQL, so I should be considered a newbie for installation
issues.


The situation:

I am running Linux on my home computer. The specific distribution is
CentOS 4.1. My computer is a pentium 3 with 512 MB Ram.

On the web hosting service where my web sites are hosted, they have the
following versions of PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin:

PHP Version 4.3.8
MySQL 4.1.3-beta-standard
phpMyAdmin 2.5.7-pl1

What I would like to do is install versions of these applications on my
machine that will be compatible with my server so that I can develop and
test web sites on my home machine which will hopefully work on my host
server.

I know that the current latest versions of these applications are as
follows:

PHP 4.4.0
MySQL 4.1.14
phpMyAdmin 2.6.4

I've already spoken to my web host and they intend to upgrade to the new
versions as soon as they build a compatible interface for them with
their administrator control panel interface.


The Questions:

If I install the latest versions locally, will they be backwards
compatible enough with the versions on my host server?

Would it be easy enough to install the versions that my host has, and
then upgrade later?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Dave

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