Topic: Upgrading PHP

[Gerald Jansen]

I would like to upgrade to the most recent version of PHP 4.0.6 using a win32.zip module.  Is anyone aware of the proper procedure to initiate the upgrade on an e-smith server?  TIA

Jerry

[Dave Boccabella]

Sorry Jerry
Win32 and Linux are incompatible in that regard.

With Win32 the PHP is either a .DLL or a .EXE file.

With Linux it is linked into the Apache load - sorta like a DL but totally different internals.

Easiest solution is to keep a look out for an RPM and load it that way. I'm sure there will be one ut in a couple of days.

Sadly  re your TIA  Its more 'A' than 'T' at this time..

Dave
(Its just a jump to the Left!!!)

[Gerald Jansen]

I am on the look out for an rpm that is specific to e-smith. My need is for a personal php-nuke 5.0 portal that I hope to setup. That portal will use "gallery" a really nice interactive photo album that requires PHP 4.04 or better. I have looked at the contributed rpms and the latest is for 4.0.3p11 by Dan Brown. I am currently running that version with 4.1.2 it is known to have problems with gallery. So, if Dan is going to update his rpm for 4.1.2 that would be a great solution.

[Dan Brown]

I have no plans to upgrade my PHP RPMs, as there is no longer a need for me to maintain them.  They were intended for e-smith 4.0x, which did not include PHP or the webmail system.  Currently, I use RPMs I downloaded from http://rpms.arvin.dk, which seem to work very well.

With the 4.1.2 release of e-smith, there doesn't seem to be any need for e-smith-specific RPMs of PHP.  The webmail option in the e-smith-manager makes all the necessary changes to the httpd.conf file, and the php.ini file isn't templated.

[Mahmood Al-Yousif]

I'm running PostNuke 0.5.1.2 (which is based on PHP-Nuke 5.0) on e-Smith 4.1.2 without a problem using the PHP 4.0.3pl1 release. My_eGallery also works fine with that. The only "problem" you will be facing is that the GD library is not compiled into the PHP e-Smith uses, hence no thumbnails will be generated (unless you opt for the browser thumbnail generation in My_eGallery 2.4.5 release which is painfully slow!) so you have to generate your own thumbnails and upload them into the "thumb" directory within your gallery subdirectories.

I prefer PostNuke for various reasons, one of which is the open development plan and availability of a CVS where you can always download the latest version, you can check out PostNuke at http://www.postnuke.com.

PostNuke uses .css style sheet and is completely HTML 4.0.1 complient. That said, it appears that FB just released 5.0.1 which does that too!

All the plug-ins and language files are compatible with PostNuke.

If you need help with installing and configuring PostNuke on the e-Smith server, let me know... I'm running 5 sites on e-Smith and have not had any major problems.

You can see my PostNuke site at http://www.mahmood.tv with the My_eGallery 2.4.5 installed and functioning.