NoSalt Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Hello All I have a copy of RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 4) - 2.6.9-42.EL kernel) from when I went to RHCT training several years ago. I have been able to moderately upgrade the system over the years but now I am stuck. Particularly I would like to upgrade PHP and MySQL to v5 but I am somewhat confused as to what to download. I attempted to download and install PHP 5 from source, but I received the following warning: +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | *** WARNING *** | | | | You will be compiling the CGI version of PHP without any | | redirection checking. By putting this cgi binary somewhere in | | your web space, users may be able to circumvent existing .htaccess | | security by loading files directly through the parser. See | | http://www.php.net/manual/security.php for more details. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | License: | | This software is subject to the PHP License, available in this | | distribution in the file LICENSE. By continuing this installation | | process, you are bound by the terms of this license agreement. | | If you do not agree with the terms of this license, you must abort | | the installation process at this point. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thinking about it (out of security concerns), I would rather use an RPM to upgrade PHP and MySQL but I always have difficulty locating the correct RPM for RHEL 4. There seem to be many for Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. but not many for RHEL. Actually, I have always been a little cloudy on which RPMs were correct for RHEL. So, my question is this. Can you help me with some tips and advice on the best (and hopefully easiest) way to upgrade my server that results in the best security in the long run? Thank you very much for reading. Have a good day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSalt Posted March 31, 2009 Author Share Posted March 31, 2009 bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Does RH not have something like yum or apt-get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSalt Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 Not in RHEL 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will35010 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 I'm not familiar with RH, I only use debian, but I'd go for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSalt Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steviewdr Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Do you not have support with your license of RHEL? A quick google led to: http://openconcept.ca/upgrading_php_and_mysql_on_red_hat_enterprise_edition Quote from above website: "Enterprise installs of Linux promise well-supported and rock-solid combinations of software packages.The problem with upgrading the software on an Enterprise install is that the built-in program management system only lets you upgrade and install the limited selection of packages and versions that make up that particular distro." Once you install/upgrade php and mysql and go a non RHEL route, the onus is on you to keep it patched with security updates. -steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSalt Posted April 13, 2009 Author Share Posted April 13, 2009 No ... no support. I got the copy of RHEL 4 when I went to RHCT training. This is on a server that I am running from home and not from work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmola Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 This is the nature of RHEL ... they lag far behind current releases with their packages. If you want anything nearing current PHP, Apache and MySQL releases, you need to use 3rd party package repo's. The ones you will need are the EPEL repo and the Remi repo. Google them both and do some reading about how to get the packages from their repos, and how to use up2date with them. Remi is french, so make sure you find the links to the English version of his instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rizi Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 no support means no updates for you. RHEL does'nt use use yum or apt but i think u can still upgrade your system via centos repo all u need to do is to install yum and put some repo from centos. thats what i did when i was preparing for my RHCE exam and got the redhat cds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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