On 16 August 2011 02:38, Jay Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
Note that I just installed 1.17 on CentOS *5.6*, and the shipping PHP there is still 5.1.x; I had to set up epel to pull in something as new as 5.3.6 to get it to run at all. I admit I was surprised that something as new as C5.6 didn't have a new enough PHP for our current production release, but there you have it.
Yeah, I got caught by this putting 1.17 on RHEL5. I ended up compiling PHP 5.3.6 from source just to generate a suitably up-to-date libphp5.so. In practical terms, RHEL and its derivatives these days is the old software graveyard Debian used to have a reputation for being.
I suppose the question is "what's on common cheap generic hosting these days?" The people using generic hosting will be the ones without the ability to upgrade without changing hosting company.
- d.