I am running Mac Server on Mountain Lion as a local networked server.
I would like to upgrade the current PHP 5.3.15 to the latest (5.4.16 at present) but I can update our local / personal macs machines but the mac that we have the server on wil not how can i update this version of PHP.
Also should it be time for this type of update to be included with updates...!
MAC Pro OS X 10.8.4 running MAC Server v.2.2.1(169).
Do not upgrade the version of PHP built in to OS X Server. Other tools and services built into OS X Server use that version of PHP to do parts of their jobs. A later version of PHP may introduce or fix bugs or otherwise break the things these other facilities use, which would stop them from working properly.
Apple updates the version of PHP supplied with OS X Server when it has had a chance to test all the other facilities which depend on it to make sure they still work with the new version. This happens more rarely than every PHP version increment.
If you want your server to run a later version of PHP, I recommend you download and install yourself a separate copy, installed in a different place to where the existing copy is.
Thanks for the reply.
I have installed a newer version via http://php-osx.liip.ch/
I then have perfomred th e following:
sudo mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php.orig
sudo ln -s /usr/local/php5/bin/php/usr/bin/phpWhen i get then command line php version it then shows the correct i get the following:
'PHP 5.4.15 (cli) (built: May 20 2013 14:34:36) '
But when i run the php info file i have within the root of my webserver i still get the old version 5.3.15.
So my issue is how can i link the server upto the latest installed version.
Why is the older php shown in Apache? The following Apache configuration file step was probably missed:
LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so
As was suggested up-thread, I would not encourage modifying the system-installed version — which is what that link does. I'd undo that.
Some applications demand using a version newer than what ships with OS X. For example, ActiveCollab demands at least 5.6.xx but El Capitan comes with 5.4.xx
There are two installations of PHP one is used by apache and the other by the CLI or terminal. To update he one apache uses simply download a bitnami.com or other MAMP installation. Updating the CLI is much more involved as stated above and has some associated risks.
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