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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:32:15 +0900
From:      Rei Okamoto <okamoto@mix-net.co.jp>
To:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>, Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version
Message-ID:  <20121023113214.0CE2.59217E37@mix-net.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK011_s916MJA72GgRHp4UQxmW1f735fn%2BU=XnJMqm-3xg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Adam, Olivier, Erich, and the rest,

Thank you for your replies.

It sounds like the best thing to do is to migrate
the contents to a server with new versions of all softwares.

I'll make further discussions with my boss about this matter.

Thank you again,
Rei Okamoto


> Hello to all,
> 
> My name is Rei Okamoto posting from Japan.
> 
> I'm very new to FreeBSD and please pardon and caution me
> if anything I post is in any way inappropriate.
> 
> Here's a problem I'm facing right now.
> 
> I started working for a company this month as a
> sole engineerer, given all my tasks with virtually
> no manuals other than IP addresses, IDs and PWs.
> (Dangerous, but not such a rare case in this country)
> 
> One of the clients is running the web site using
> FreeBSD 4.7.
> 
> Although it is surely the best to renew the server to
> newest machine and OS, the client is reluctant to do so
> because of money.
> 
> So a long story short, because I need to do some testing,
> I've installed FreeBSD 4.11 to the VirtualBox as a
> test server in my local PC and got the network connected.
> 
> I want to build the test server as close to the
> actual server as possible, such as considering the
> OS's version 4.11 to be close enough to 4.7, but
> as I try to install PHP4 with a following command,
> 
> pkg_add -r php4-4.3.6.tgz
> 
> I get an error message below.
> 
> Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.11-release/Latest/php4-4.3.6.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> 
> So you probably can figure out the rest of the story,
> it is all too old to make a near duplication of the server.
> 
> Is there any suggestion on what I can do
> other than convincing the client to renew the server?
> (which I am doing but already been politely refused)
> 
> Pardon me for the long message,
> and thank you in advance for all replies.
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Rei Okamoto



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