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Installation of php5.3 On Centos

This document discusses installing PHP 5.3.2 on CentOS 5 from a custom repository, providing RPMs for PHP 5.3.2 compiled for CentOS 5 i386 and x86_64 architectures. It provides instructions for adding the yum repository and installing PHP and extensions like php-mcrypt. Updates are included to cover installing APC, eAccelerator, and silencing deprecated error messages.

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Installation of php5.3 On Centos

This document discusses installing PHP 5.3.2 on CentOS 5 from a custom repository, providing RPMs for PHP 5.3.2 compiled for CentOS 5 i386 and x86_64 architectures. It provides instructions for adding the yum repository and installing PHP and extensions like php-mcrypt. Updates are included to cover installing APC, eAccelerator, and silencing deprecated error messages.

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PHP 5.

3 on CentOS 5
Posted 20th June 2009 by Andy | 145 Comments

My previous articles on installing PHP on CentOS dealt with installing PHP 5.2.6. I have
found this to have some bugs that kill the process without error information. One bug I
found, which was on an x86_64 server, was that converting an object to a string did this.

So, I have compiled the latest PHP version, 5.3.2, and put it in my own repository for
easy installation. I have compiled it for CentOS 5 i386 and x86_64, and provided the
source RPMS in the repo, if anyone wants to compile it for another OS or architecture.

Update 2009-07-03 – I updated the version to PHP 5.3, which was released a few days
before. This includes many new features such as closures, namespaces, and packaged
scripts in phar files, which I’ll blog about soon. Check out PHP changelog for more
details.
Update 2009-09-01 – Added a note about deprecated errors, and how to silence them.
Also I have included a tip that might help those of you struggling to install.
Update 2010-03-03 – I’ve added both apc 3.1.3p1 beta (php-pecl-apc in yum) and
eAccelerator 0.9.6 (php-eaccelerator in yum) RPMs to the repository, they are compiled
for (and work on) php 5.3.x

I have also included the same php extensions I mentioned in my other article, php-
mcrypt, php-mhash (in PHP 5.2), php-mssql and php-tidy

To install, first you must tell rpm to accept rpm’s signed by me, then add the yum
repository information to yum:

rpm -ivh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/`uname -i`/webtatic-


release-5-0.noarch.rpm

Now you can install php by doing:

yum --enablerepo=webtatic install php


yum --enablerepo=webtatic install php-devel
yum --enablerepo=webtatic install php-mcrypt

Or update an existing installation of php, which will also update all of the other php
modules installed:

yum --enablerepo=webtatic update php

If this does not work correctly, try disabling all other repositories while
installing/updating, by adding the –disablerepo=* option. This will stop other
dependencies from being installed, so you may want to install them first.

yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=webtatic update php


“Depsolving” problems

If you get depsolving problems when updating, you may have currently installed some
extensions that have been removed, e.g. php-mhash, php-ncurses.

You will need to remove them before upgrading.

yum remove php-mhash php-ncurses

Deprecated Errors

Once you are running the new version, you may get “deprecated” errors in your error
logs. This isn’t bad, it just means to tell you that some of the functions you are using are
no longer prefered, and may be removed in a future major release. An example of this is
the ereg functions. Preg functions are prefered over these, as they are much faster and
more powerful, and in all cases do at least the same thing.

If upgrading the functions are not an option, and you would like to hide the deprecated
errors from your error log, for example on a production server, just edit your /etc/php.ini
file, find the line:

error_reporting = E_ALL

and replace to:

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED

PHP 5.2.13

I am also maintaining a PHP 5.2.13 release, so should you prefer to install that (for
reasons like incompatibilities or testing), you can force it to install that instead by doing:

yum --enablerepo=webtatic --exclude=php*5.3* update php

Or you can add to the /etc/yum.repos.d/webtatic.repo the line:

exclude=php*5.3*

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