Re: PHP5 on RHEL4?

[Jay Lee <jlee pbu edu>]

Micah Yoder wrote:
> On Thursday 28 July 2005 11:34, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
> > It would be nice to have RPMs like the Python and Python2 ones or gcc and
> > gcc-compat, which could live side by side.
> >
> > I have some installed packages that require a custom build of the PHP4
> > rpms, and I have somebody who wants PHP5 features for some development.
> >
> > I'll probably either install from source or try to modify the CentOS or
> > Fedora RPMs.
> >
> > Thanks to everyone who replied for the suggestions.
>
>
> I'm pretty sure you'll have to run two separate instances of Apache.  Doing 
> that from RPM could be tricky -- when I have had to do that, I've always just 
> compiled them from source so I could tell it the exact modules to include and 
> use, and specify different prefixes.

No, there is no reason that PHP4 and PHP5 apache modules cannot be 
loaded at the same time by the same apache process.  As long as their 
not stepping on each others feet, i.e. PHP4 would handle .php4 files, 
php5 would handle .php5 and one would handle the default .php file type.

Jay
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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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