From blakesle at purdue.edu Thu Feb 25 04:11:47 2010 From: blakesle at purdue.edu (David Blakesley) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:11:47 -0500 Subject: [teaching with drupal] Upgrading PHP Version Message-ID: <36f823351002250211o4980c8f3ua144e0f3a1aa454e@mail.gmail.com> I'm hoping to install some Drupal sites and modules that need PHP 5.x. I've run into a number of installation and functionality issues because we're currently running PHP 4.4.7 on our VPS. I'm wondering: does anyone know whether upgrading to PHP 5.x will wreak havoc with our Drupal sites (we're currently running about 100, with most of them at Drupal 6.13 or higher)? Any suggestions/advice will be much appreciated! Thanks, Dave --- Professor of English and Director of Professional Writing Dept. of English Purdue University 500 Oval Dr. West Lafayette, IN 47906 765.494.3772 From mdshrops at uncc.edu Thu Feb 25 05:33:31 2010 From: mdshrops at uncc.edu (Mark Shropshire) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:33:31 -0500 Subject: [teaching with drupal] Upgrading PHP Version In-Reply-To: <36f823351002250211o4980c8f3ua144e0f3a1aa454e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: David, I had issues with 4.7 sites on php 5.x until I updated to 4.7.11. I think 4.7.11 is generally compatible. I mostly had issues with sessions, logins, etc. Can't speak to 4.4.x. 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On 2/25/10 5:11 AM, "David Blakesley" wrote: > I'm hoping to install some Drupal sites and modules that need PHP 5.x. > > I've run into a number of installation and functionality issues because > we're currently running PHP 4.4.7 on our VPS. I'm wondering: does anyone > know whether upgrading to PHP 5.x will wreak havoc with our Drupal sites > (we're currently running about 100, with most of them at Drupal 6.13 or > higher)? > > Any suggestions/advice will be much appreciated! > > Thanks, > Dave > --- > Professor of English and Director of Professional Writing > Dept. of English > Purdue University > 500 Oval Dr. > West Lafayette, IN 47906 > 765.494.3772 > _______________________________________________ > teaching mailing list > teaching at drupaled.net > http://mail.drupaled.net/mailman/listinfo/teaching_drupaled.net From bill at funnymonkey.com Thu Feb 25 11:07:56 2010 From: bill at funnymonkey.com (Bill Fitzgerald) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:07:56 -0800 Subject: [teaching with drupal] Upgrading PHP Version In-Reply-To: <36f823351002250211o4980c8f3ua144e0f3a1aa454e@mail.gmail.com> References: <36f823351002250211o4980c8f3ua144e0f3a1aa454e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4B86AE6C.4090007@funnymonkey.com> Hello, Dave, While the upgrade will likely be painless, the one way to ensure that havoc will be wrought is to assume that the upgrade will be painless ;) I strongly recommend trying the upgrade in a testing environment first. I would also recommend looking at your MySQL version, as if you are upgrading PHP you might want to see if you would benefit from a MySQL upgrade (to 5.x) at the same time. I'd also recommend targeting a PHP version supported via your Linux distributions native tools (ie, apt-get, yum) as that will be easier to maintain over time. FWIW, we have been using PHP 5.2.6 for most of our recent work. I hope this helps, and feel free to ping back with any additional questions. Cheers, Bill On 2/25/10 2:11 AM, David Blakesley wrote: > I'm hoping to install some Drupal sites and modules that need PHP 5.x. > > I've run into a number of installation and functionality issues because > we're currently running PHP 4.4.7 on our VPS. I'm wondering: does anyone > know whether upgrading to PHP 5.x will wreak havoc with our Drupal sites > (we're currently running about 100, with most of them at Drupal 6.13 or > higher)? > > Any suggestions/advice will be much appreciated! > > Thanks, > Dave > --- > Professor of English and Director of Professional Writing > Dept. of English > Purdue University > 500 Oval Dr. > West Lafayette, IN 47906 > 765.494.3772 > _______________________________________________ > teaching mailing list > teaching at drupaled.net > http://mail.drupaled.net/mailman/listinfo/teaching_drupaled.net > From blakesle at purdue.edu Thu Feb 25 12:45:42 2010 From: blakesle at purdue.edu (David Blakesley) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:45:42 -0500 Subject: [teaching with drupal] Upgrading PHP Version In-Reply-To: <4B86AE6C.4090007@funnymonkey.com> References: <36f823351002250211o4980c8f3ua144e0f3a1aa454e@mail.gmail.com> <4B86AE6C.4090007@funnymonkey.com> Message-ID: <36f823351002251045k247b2b58n3cebcbcb634dfcb7@mail.gmail.com> Thanks, Bill and Mark. Luckily, I have Liquid Web techs, so I'll be sure to raise these issues with them before proceeding. I was wondering about the MySQL version upgrade, too. I don't really have a testing environment, but I think we'll be able to roll things back to a previous installation if thing go haywire. I'll check on that, too, though. Dave On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote: > Hello, Dave, > > While the upgrade will likely be painless, the one way to ensure that havoc > will be wrought is to assume that the upgrade will be painless ;) > > I strongly recommend trying the upgrade in a testing environment first. I > would also recommend looking at your MySQL version, as if you are upgrading > PHP you might want to see if you would benefit from a MySQL upgrade (to 5.x) > at the same time. > > I'd also recommend targeting a PHP version supported via your Linux > distributions native tools (ie, apt-get, yum) as that will be easier to > maintain over time. > > FWIW, we have been using PHP 5.2.6 for most of our recent work. > > I hope this helps, and feel free to ping back with any additional > questions. > > Cheers, > > Bill > > > On 2/25/10 2:11 AM, David Blakesley wrote: > >> I'm hoping to install some Drupal sites and modules that need PHP 5.x. >> >> I've run into a number of installation and functionality issues because >> we're currently running PHP 4.4.7 on our VPS. I'm wondering: does anyone >> know whether upgrading to PHP 5.x will wreak havoc with our Drupal sites >> (we're currently running about 100, with most of them at Drupal 6.13 or >> higher)? >> >> Any suggestions/advice will be much appreciated! >> >> Thanks, >> Dave >> --- >> Professor of English and Director of Professional Writing >> Dept. of English >> Purdue University >> 500 Oval Dr. >> West Lafayette, IN 47906 >> 765.494.3772 >> _______________________________________________ >> teaching mailing list >> teaching at drupaled.net >> http://mail.drupaled.net/mailman/listinfo/teaching_drupaled.net >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > teaching mailing list > teaching at drupaled.net > http://mail.drupaled.net/mailman/listinfo/teaching_drupaled.net > From mdshrops at uncc.edu Thu Feb 25 16:15:47 2010 From: mdshrops at uncc.edu (Mark Shropshire) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:15:47 -0500 Subject: [teaching with drupal] Upgrading PHP Version In-Reply-To: <36f823351002251045k247b2b58n3cebcbcb634dfcb7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dave, Definitely backup db and files so you can roll backup. Maybe a backup at each logical upgrade point. Thanks! Mark On 2/25/10 1:45 PM, "David Blakesley" wrote: > Thanks, Bill and Mark. Luckily, I have Liquid Web techs, so I'll be sure to > raise these issues with them before proceeding. I was wondering about the > MySQL version upgrade, too. > > I don't really have a testing environment, but I think we'll be able to roll > things back to a previous installation if thing go haywire. I'll check on > that, too, though. > > Dave > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote: >