Comments on: Dotster VPS Upgrade to PHP 5 and MySQL 5

By: Dimi

Dimi — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:05:21 +0000

Good help thanks,
I've upgrade my PHP to v 5 without any issue
but i have an error in the beginning of this upgrade for Mysql and now i should take some help from friends.

Regards
Dimi

By: Mahmoud

Mahmoud — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:40:12 +0000

I followed exactly step by step your kindly provided recommendations, but yummy on my CentOS4.6 machine only upgraded the centos kernel on yum update. sql is still 4

By: michael

michael — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:42:51 +0000

You can get the ioncube loader message to go away by downloading the free ioncube loaders from this page

http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php

the reason it is complaining is that now it only has the old loaders for php 4.3.

since you have just upgraded to php5 you only need to upload the ioncube php5 loaders to get rid of that message.

to do that do something like
wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

make sure you go to ioncube and select the package that is right for your system. the random link above is the tar file for the linux x86-64 server

then just copy the ioncube loader into the same directory that the complaints are coming from. in the case above it's
/usr/lib/php4/php_ioncube_loader_lin_4.3.so

so you need to copy
/usr/lib/php4/php_ioncube_loader_lin_5.0.so
into the same directory then the ioncube loaders can be activated.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:13:51 +0000

It is worth mentioning that you should upgrade your MySQL databases as well, so that you can take advantage of some of the zoomy new features in 5.

mysql_upgrade -u admin --password=XXXXXXXX

By: John Doyle

John Doyle — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:58:02 +0000

had two centos 4.4 boxes this worked a charm.
Had to recompile suexec but only took a few mins.
Many thanks

By: Avi

Avi — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:04:10 +0000

WOW!

I was pretty worried, but it was just smooth and easy. :)

THANKS!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:10:07 +0000

One word – LIFESAVER! I’m in the process of transferring several of my sites to a new VPS with a new company, which only offers CentOS as the OS…which is fine, but I’m used to FC6. I wasn’t sure if I could just upgrade software without screwing up Plesk or what (not used to having a control panel to get in my way)

Really helpful.

By: Tom Wilson

Tom Wilson — Wed, 23 May 2007 02:30:06 +0000

Hey, thanks a bunch for this little helper post. I just upgraded to a VPS and had php4 and mysql4, so this helped speed up the transition process 10 fold. Thanks again.

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