I’ve had to follow this tutorial a few times myself now so decided I should share it with the world.
A few of our applications which make use of SOAP get a Segmentation Fault if run with PHP 5.1.x or lower. We believe this is due to a bug in PHP but can’t be sure, regardless it works fine in PHP 5.2.4 and above.
Problem is, RedHat ES5 does not have support at this time for anything higher than 5.1.6, and we didn’t want to break RPM dependancys etc by installing from source.
To install PHP 5.2.5 (Highest in repository at this time) you can make use of a RPM repository maintained by Remi. He has a repository for each distro, but to save you translating for the ES5 one I’ll give you the commands here. Run the following to get up and running:
Update 12th Aug ’08:
There is now an English page on the Remi site on how to configure repositories for all sorts of distros: http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en
Update 13th June ’09:
The download link for the ES5 package has changed, post updated above.: http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en
Update 9th August ’09: It would seem this repo has now been upgraded to PHP 5.3.0.
A few of our applications which make use of SOAP get a Segmentation Fault if run with PHP 5.1.x or lower. We believe this is due to a bug in PHP but can’t be sure, regardless it works fine in PHP 5.2.4 and above.
Problem is, RedHat ES5 does not have support at this time for anything higher than 5.1.6, and we didn’t want to break RPM dependancys etc by installing from source.
To install PHP 5.2.5 (Highest in repository at this time) you can make use of a RPM repository maintained by Remi. He has a repository for each distro, but to save you translating for the ES5 one I’ll give you the commands here. Run the following to get up and running:
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpmyum --enablerepo=remi update php# php -v
PHP 5.2.5 (cli) (built: Nov 10 2007 10:52:30)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend TechnologiesUpdate 12th Aug ’08:
There is now an English page on the Remi site on how to configure repositories for all sorts of distros: http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en
Update 13th June ’09:
The download link for the ES5 package has changed, post updated above.: http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en
Update 9th August ’09: It would seem this repo has now been upgraded to PHP 5.3.0.
