Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:46:38 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: z.szalbot@lc-words.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing php4 and php5 on one machine Message-ID: <991123400805120946w2ae9a15ayefc91de7b0412ac7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48285A2D.2000804@lc-words.com> References: <48285A2D.2000804@lc-words.com>
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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lc-words.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1. The machine has PHP 5.2.6 with > Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli). We're going to host one of our sites which > currently is hosted by our ISP. This site requires php4 to work before it > gets rewritten or dumped. Anyway, my current BSD machine is a dedicated one > so I can do with it what I like but I am not really sure how to go about > installing two versions of php. php5 has been installed from ports and works > well. > The main issue here is: Which php would you want Apache to refer to, and at what time? Honestly, I don't have an answer for this!. Perhaps you have to run a whole different system within a jail:-( There may be an easier way, but when I read this, that is where my /etc (end of thinking capacity) got me for now. How would you advise me to go about installing php4? I do not think I will > be able to do it from ports (it will require an ancient version of php > 4.10). Also I do not want to mix dependencies and such. Another issue is how > to host the site. Use a different port for it (*:8080)? Use jails (never > been in jail so no experience with it so far ;)? Why not just use the final version of php-4.x.x? Even this breaks your site? > > I do have several IPs to play with so I can use them if that helps. Use a jail. > > > I'd appreciate your opinion about it. Many thanks to you all in advance! I am not even sure my opinion helps, but well, the whole world reads this list!:-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post
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