Ubuntu 10.4 and backporting

I upgraded a clients server to Ubuntu 10.4 last night. Well all was going well until I realised that the latest version of Ubuntu uses php version 5.3. Blue Box 2.0 has been developed on Php Version 5.2 and is in Beta testing on 5.3.

I was left with the desicion of either downgrading the O.S. (Operating System) or back porting the packages. I chose to back port. It is pretty straight forward process, you need to do the following.

Install Apache2

apt-get install apache2

Install PHP manually using dpkg

I downloaded php manually using the ZA servers http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/php5/

Remember when you start to ensure you use the same version and architecture version.

php5-cli_5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6_i386.deb

php5

version 5.2.10

Arch i386

Files required were

php5-common
php5-gd

php5-mysql
libapache2-mod-php5

php5-cli (if you require php at a command interface level)

Once downloaded you simply need to install one by one.

dpkg - i php5-cli_5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6_i386.deb

dpkg - i php5-common_5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6_i386.deb

dpkg - i php5-gd_5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6_i386.deb

dpkg - i php5-mysql_5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6_i386.deb

dpkg - i libapache2-mod-php5

Once done ensure to edit php.ini up your memory limit to at least 512M set your ioncube loaders zend_extions path and up your execution time limit to at least 300 for long script processing.

Now that this is done simply restart apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart and your system will now run php 5.2 back ported on Ubuntu 10.4

Wayne @ Blue Box

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