Tim - FWIW
I function as the webmaster-cum-OS sysadmin for the Wikispooks project
wiki which runs on a Centos 7 VPS
I entered 'hard' for the php upgrade difficulty because of a disastrous
experience a few years ago. I cannot remember the detail of the php
releases concerned but briefly, I upgraded to a version that was not
available through either the Centos standard or EPEL repos. I believe
the upgrade was prompted by a Mediawiki upgrade from V-16 to 17 or 18.
Got it all working OK but all sorts of problems, clearly related to the
upgrade, followed. Attempting to fix them eventually ended with my
having to re-commission the server pretty much from scratch. My lack of
professional Linux sysadmin experience was undoubtedly to blame but the
lesson I took away - and which I will not lightly override - is that,
for near-core OS components - ie php and a few others - do NOT install
anything that is not included in the standard and/or EPEL repos unless
absolutely forced to.
I doubt I am alone in that stance.
Current Centos 7 EPEL repo php version is 5.4.16
Peter Presland
On 04/12/2015 01:25, Tim Starling wrote:
If you manage a MediaWiki instance, please tell us
what PHP version
you use, and some other relevant information, by filling out this form:
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z-io754bUxVujh100D4xvIwkiBIFk9Ef0j4TYrJ2zMc/viewform>
You may have seen on wikitech-l that there is some controversy over
whether we should require PHP 5.5 in the next major release of
MediaWiki. I made this little survey in the interests of gathering
some extra data to support our decision, beyond what we already have
from WikiApiary.
You don't need to log in to fill out the form, and no personal
information will be forwarded to us.
-- Tim Starling
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