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Virtualmin – upgrate PHP 5.3 to PHP 5.4 / PHP 5.5 or higher version from Yum

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Upgrade PHP 5.3 default version in Virtualmin / webmin to PHP 5.3 / php 5.5 in Centos:

Virtualmin / webmin comes with default php5.3 version while higher version is only available in pro version. This article helps how to update php versions  to higher version like php5.5.

 

Step 1:  Install PHP version:

For centos 6:

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm

For centos 5:

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el5/latest.rpm

Now install php by:

To install php 5.4 version:

yum install php54w php54w-common php54w-mysql php54-mbstring

To install php 5.5 version

yum install php55w php55w-opcache php55w-common php55w-mysql php55-mbstring

More module can be added by simple apending the module name at the end of yum or can be installed sepereatly.

List of modules are:

Package Provides
php54w mod_php, php54w-zts
php54w-bcmath
php54w-cli php-cgi, php-pcntl, php-readline
php54w-common php-api, php-bz2, php-calendar, php-ctype, php-curl, php-date, php-exif, php-fileinfo, php-ftp, php-gettext, php-gmp, php-hash, php-iconv, php-json, php-libxml, php-openssl, php-pcre, php-pecl-Fileinfo, php-pecl-phar, php-pecl-zip, php-reflection, php-session, php-shmop, php-simplexml, php-sockets, php-spl, php-tokenizer, php-zend-abi, php-zip, php-zlib
php54w-dba
php54w-devel
php54w-embedded php-embedded-devel
php54w-enchant
php54w-fpm
php54w-gd
php54w-imap
php54w-interbase php_database, php-firebird
php54w-intl
php54w-ldap
php54w-mbstring
php54w-mcrypt
php54w-mssql
php54w-mysql php-mysqli, php_database
php54w-mysqlnd php-mysqli, php_database
php54w-odbc php-pdo_odbc, php_database
php54w-pdo
php54w-pecl-apc
php54w-pecl-memcache
php54w-pecl-zendopcache
php54w-pecl-xdebug
php54w-pgsql php-pdo_pgsql, php_database
php54w-process php-posix, php-sysvmsg, php-sysvsem, php-sysvshm
php54w-pspell
php54w-recode
php54w-snmp
php54w-soap
php54w-tidy
php54w-xml php-dom, php-domxml, php-wddx, php-xsl
php54w-xmlrpc 


Each module can be configured with ini files which are inside /etc/php.d/<module name>.ini 


Here we are installing php 5.5 so in above module we replace php54w with php55w . example , php54w-mysql will be php55w-mysql in php 5.5


Step 2: setup PHP 5.5 version in apache


a) Create cgi file < if using php-cgi)


Go to your domain name:


/home/<username>/cgi-bin/


Copy existing cgi file lets say 5.4.cgi to new version cgi, in this case 5.5.cgi


cd /home/<username>/cgi-bin/


cp php5.4.cgi php5.5.cgi


edit cgi file


vi php.5.5.cgi


and replace with


#!/bin/bash
 PHPRC=$DOCUMENT_ROOT/../etc/php5 # your php version
 export PHPRC
 umask 022
 if [ "$REDIRECT_URL" != "" ]; then
 SCRIPT_NAME=$REDIRECT_URL
 export SCRIPT_NAME
 fi
 SCRIPT_FILENAME=$PATH_TRANSLATED
 export SCRIPT_FILENAME
 exec /usr/bin/php-cgi  # path of php-cgi


 


Give proper permission to your cgi files by:


chown <username>:<username> php5.5.cgi


chmod +x php5.5.cgi




b) create new PHP 5.5 fcgi file ( if using fcgi php)


go to


cd /home/<username>/fcgi-bin/


copy existing fcgi file to new php5.5 fcgi


cp php5.fcgi php5.5.fcgi


vi php5.5.fcgi


replace with following


#!/bin/bash
 PHPRC=$PWD/../etc/php5
 export PHPRC
 umask 022
 export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
 PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=99999
 export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
 SCRIPT_FILENAME=$PATH_TRANSLATED
 export SCRIPT_FILENAME
 exec /usr/bin/php-cgi


 


Give proper permission to your cgi files by:


chown <username>:<username> php5.5.fcgi


chmod +x php5.5fcgi


 


c) Change path toPHP 5.5 cgi in apache httd.


Now final step is to edit apache httpd file to point to new version of php.


vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf


go to your domain virtual hosting settings.


i) For fcgi based domain


Remove current FCGIWrapper and replace with following :


FCGIWrapper /home/<username>/fcgi-bin/php5.5.fcgi .php


 


ii) For cgi based domain


Remove existing Action and AddType and replace with follows:


Action application/x-httpd-php5.5 /cgi-bin/php5.5.cgi
 AddType application/x-httpd-php5.5 .php


 


3) Step 3:  Restart apache server:


service httpd restart.