Hey Rob, You might also be interested in http://www.mnxsolutions.com/apache/centos5-and-php52-upgrade-rpms.html I recently upgraded to RHEL6 for similar reasons that you describe, and then found that there were php52 RPMS available that would happily install instead of the stock php rpms. Hope this helps. -- Steve. On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Rob Tanner <rtanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a web server Enterprise 5.x and it had the distro version > (5.1.6) of PHP which, unfortunately, is too old a version for WordPress > which requires at least PHP 5.2.x and so I built that from source. The > problem I have is when I run updates since the update process will replace > the libphp5.so Apache module which, in turn, breaks WordPress. My solution > was to erase the distro PHP packages and what I want to make sure is that > yum doesn't put them back the next time RedHat updates one of them. > > So, is the fact that they're erased sufficient in itself or do I need to > run some other program update the machines profile at RedHat? > > Thanks, > > Rob Tanner > Linfield College > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
