Comments on: PHP 5.3 on CentOS 5

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:29:27 +0000

@RoyHB I’ve now added apc to the repository, so if you upgrade that (php-pecl-apc), it will work. The error you were getting was because the currently installed apc was compiled for an older php

By: RoyHB

RoyHB — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:45:31 +0000

I installed 5.3 on Centos 5.4 using your repo – thanks for all your work – it worked (almost) flawlessly.

The only problem I’ve seen so far is an error message when running a php cli script:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: apc: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20050922
PHP compiled with module API=20090626
These options need to match
in Unknown on line 0

Any suggestions?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:19:00 +0000

mhash has been removed from the php library as they say hash has all that functionallity.

You need to remove the php-mhash package before updating.

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:47:48 +0000

It seems like something got broken in the most recent updates to the repo. Running CentOS 5.4 and following the exact same steps that I have followed before, I received the following error message:

#yum –enablerepo=webtatic install php Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
…
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
php-mhash-5.2.12-1.1.x86_64 from webtatic has depsolving problems
–> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.12-1.1 is needed by package php-mhash-5.2.12-1.1.x86_64 (webtatic)
…

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:23:25 +0000

I’ve not seen a CentOS distribution resolve $releasever to the minor release (x.y) before (in the webtatic.repo file), however I’ve now symlinked, on the server, 5 to 5.0-5.4 which should work in your configuration.

By: Bilal Ahmed

Bilal Ahmed — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:51:18 +0000

even tried the touch command
but couldn’t solve this …
please help in resolving this

[root@domU-12-31-39-06-BC-E2:/mnt/tmp] touch /etc/yum.repos.d/webtatic.com

[root@domU-12-31-39-06-BC-E2:/mnt/tmp] yum –enablerepo=webtatic update php
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5.0/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: webtatic

I already have installed php 5.2.11 but unfortunately it doesn’t support –enable-memcache
so jumping on php 5.2.12 or 5.3 but unable to install

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:09:39 +0000

Hi Will,

The later releases of PHP packages for Red-Hat based distributions compile posix functions as a separate package (probably for reasons like shared hosting companies not wanting them in by default)

You can install the posix functions as part of the php-process package:
yum install --enablerepo=webtatic php-process

By: will

will — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:51:54 +0000

hi! this works great however it appears php’s posix’s plugin is not available!

“POSIX functions are enabled by default. You can disable POSIX-like functions with –disable-posix.”

Did you disable them in your compile?

By: John

John — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:39:59 +0000

Worked like a charm
Thank you

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:25:05 +0000

Sorry but I don’t have RPMs for your distribution (I’m assuming it’s Fedora 11 based on the resolved url?)

Fedora 12 does have PHP 5.3 though.

My main reason for this repo is because there is no other option for people who can’t switch from CentOS to another distribution, other than to compile PHP themselves.