Re: How to upgrade PHP and Apache and Mysql without messing
fonz said:
hockey97 said:
I am running them on FreeBSD 8.1 and will plan to upgrade FreeBSD to 8.4. Is this a good idea?
Yes. FreeBSD 8.1 has been EoL for almost two years. Did you install PHP etc. as binary packages or from ports?
hockey97 said:
If I upgrade my PHP and Apache and MySQL will anything break?
Not if you do it right, but a lot depends on the exact procedure you'll be following.
I installed from ports. Right now I upgraded my server from FreeBSD 8.1 to 8.4. It's still a working machine but at boot I can see several errors. Some about apache and postfix etc. It went too fast to fully read the error messages. However, there's a dozen. This is my second attempt to upgrade the system. Before I was able to get a working FreeBSD 8.4 machine running. However, I clicked to update the packages since there's about 500 new updated or upgraded packages to install. So, when I did this the last time. It detected an old version of perl. It then included in the upgrade or update to install the latest perl version. After all these updates, I would reboot the server. This ended up giving me a unbootable system. I couldn't boot into anything and couldn't get to even the shell to type any commands. So, I had to get my system back to the original state. I did do a restore of that system. This is where I am at right now. I did the restore and now doing this process again the 2nd time. However, I see the same errors and same problems. I had errors in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf the upgrade process ended up adding stuff like "<<<" and "///" in lines 32 and 38 of
rc.conf. I would have to every time go into
rc.conf and manually remove these added characters. It will then allow my system to boot.
Right now, I can boot into my server and everything works. I can run apache, php,mysql, postfix, etc. However, these are still using the old versions or systems. I am at the point where I would like to upgrade them but don't want to experience of getting a broken system. I previously have all software installed by using the ports. I currently upgraded the ports and am thinking to upgrade my apache, php, mysql, postfix etc. However, don't want to do it in a way that would cause my system to no longer be working.
