[TriLUG] PHP install/upgrade question

[Ed Hill]

On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 16:23 -0500, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> Any advice is welcome.
> 
> I know that I need to totally upgrade this system from RH9 to
> something more modern, but I've got so much stuff working on it now
> that I'm a little gunshy about how to do that with minimal breakage.


Hi Rick,

We run mediawiki on FC2 and FC3 and it works nicely.  And we've been
moving a bunch of machines through successive distros (RH8, RH9, FC1,
FC2, FC3 -- occasionally skipping one) as they come out.  Rather than
building php from source, I'd seriously consider doing a full backup
[you do have periodic backups, right? ;-)] and a fresh install.

I think its like going to a dentist.  The more you wait the worse it
will eventually be...

Ed

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