From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 9 04:08:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3C516A418 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 04:08:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (137-42-178-69.gci.net [69.178.42.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC0A513C469 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 04:08:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: by stargate.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id 3786F8263; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:08:52 -0800 (AKDT) From: Beech Rintoul To: Olivier Nicole Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:08:47 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200710090316.l993G3VA045316@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <200710081922.23228.beech@freebsd.org> <200710090341.l993fxqw045888@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200710090341.l993fxqw045888@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> X-Face: jC2w\k*Q1\0DA2Q0Eh&BrP/Rt2M,^2O#R07VoT98m*>miQF9%Bi9vy`F6cPjwEe?m,)=?utf-8?q?2=0A=09X=3FM=5C=3AOE9QgZ?="xT3/n3,3MJ7N=Cfkmi%f(w^~X"SUxn>; 27NO; C+)g[7J`$G*SN>{<=?utf-8?q?O=3Bg7=7C=0A=09o=7D=265A=5D4?=@7D`=Eb@Zs1Ln814?]|k@'bG=.Ca"[|8+_.OsNAo8!#?4u MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710082008.49782.beech@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade of PHP4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Beech Rintoul List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:08:53 -0000 On Monday 08 October 2007, Olivier Nicole said: > > Doubtful, given the fact that php4 will reach EOL December 31. > > You should plan on upgrading to php5. > > Thanks, now that lads to the second question, what will I break > when updating? What should I be carefull about? I have several > servers, managing quite many sites, with a lot of home made > pages... > > TIA, > > Olivier It should be ok with most current apps, but I would run them on a test server first if it's something mission critical. Php's site has migration info (http://www.php.net) which should be helpful for custom scripts. Also the vendor sites should let you know if they will work with php5. I haven't run into anything that won't in quite a while, but your mileage may vary :-) You will need to completely remove php4 and ALL extensions then rebuild them with php5. FWIW, their site says that they will still have critical patches for a while, but all official support stops at the end of December. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------