Upgrade to PHP 5.2 - instructions anywhere?

Upgrade to PHP 5.2 - instructions anywhere?

von Cindy L -
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My Moodle is running on Windows 2003, IIS, PHP 5.0.5, MySQL 4.1. I need to upgrade to PHP5.2  I messed up my database a week ago, and now I am worried about any move I take without detailed instructions... black eye  Is there an instruction somewhere?  I looked quite a lot places on line, but didn't find one. Do I pretty much only replace the new php.ini with my old one?  Can I just copy and paste the old one over?  Do I change anything in IIS?

Anything I should watch out when upgrade Mysql?

Thank you!

Cindy

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Re: Upgrade to PHP 5.2 - instructions anywhere?

von Dan Marsden -
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Hi Cindy,

upgrading php on windows is normally pretty simple - this is what I do.

rename the existing c:\php folder to c:\phpoldversion
extract the new PHP install to C:\php
copy the php.ini from the c:\phpoldversion into the new c:\php (unless you store it somewhere central like c:\windows - then you can leave it as is.)
restart IIS
Check the PHPINFO page to make sure everything looks ok!
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- be very careful choosing the version to upgrade to on Windows, PHP 5.1.3,5.1.4,5.1.5 all have serious issues when running with IIS - (5.1.2 is the last known stable version on IIS) - I don't know anyone who has tested 5.2 on IIS yet to see if the stability issues have been resolved - I would suggest hanging fire on 5.2 for a couple of weeks to see how things go. - in the meantime you should be safe upgrading to 5.1.2

good luck!

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Dan


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Re: Upgrade to PHP 5.2 - instructions anywhere?

von Cindy L -

Thank you Dan for your very timely advice!!!!  I am sitting here downloading installation files right now.  I will do what you suggested.

Thank you sooooo much!!!

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von Cindy L -

Dan,

It worked like you said.  But I couldn't see the changes I made after I restarted IIS, so I restarted the World Wide Web publishing service, and see the version change. 

Thank you very much!!!

Cindy

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Re: Upgrade to PHP 5.2 - instructions anywhere?

von Eric Henson -

I have a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 that I am about to install Moodle 1.7 on and SUSE comes with PHP 5.1.2.  Should I upgrade to PHP 5.2?  I heard that some previous version of PHP had issues and people were recomending this upgrade.  If I do upgrade, do I upgrade PHP on Linux the same way that you upgrade on Windows?  Or do I have to compile PHP first?

Thanks, Eric

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