INSTRUCTIONS: Upgrade to PHP 5.3.2 Stable - CentOS and RedHat

[anthonycl]

Hello Everyone,

I have searched far and near for a simple solution for CentOS and RedHat to install or update php and its binaries to the latest 5.3.2 and ioncube. So I decided to make a guide for it here in just a few simple steps.

Installing or Upgrading PHP 5.3.2

1) SSH into your box as root

2) Ensure your in your /root directory.

cd /root

3) Lets add the Webtatic repo to YUM

rpm -ivh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/`uname  -i`/webtatic-release-5-0.noarch.rpm

4) We have two options here:
Install:

yum --enablerepo=webtatic install php

or Update:

yum --enablerepo=webtatic update    php

(If this does not work please try to disable regular repo's by adding the --disablerepo=* flag before the --enablerepo=webtatic flag)

Installing or Upgrading Ioncube 5.3

1) Go to http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php and download the latest version for your OS. (I prefer zip format)
Right Click the URL, Copy, and paste like so:

wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.zip

(The example url is the latest 64 bit version, at the time of this post)

2) Untar the file or unzip it:
Untar:

tar xvfz ioncubeX.X.tar.gz

or Unzip:

unzip  ioncubeX.X.tar.gz

3) Go into the ioncube directory you just unpacked:

cd ioncube

4) Move the ioncube php extension to the php extensions directory.

cp ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_5.1.so

(This is the correct directory on most 64 bit systems. If this is incorrect run 'ls -lai /usr' and check to see where it is.)

5) Now you need to create a new file and insert the following code into it:
Create/open the file:

nano /etc/php.d/ioncube.ini

Insert this code:

; Enable ioncube extension module
zend_extension =  /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_5.1.so

That's it!

Restart or Gracefully Restart Apache via Interworx, and your all set! This has been verified on both x86-32 bit and x86-64 bit CentOS 5.4 installs.

[marco114]

thanks! works great.. now installs 5.3.13.

-Marc

[Nicarlo]

Great How-to!

Just a little correction

Since we are upgrading to php 5.3 we need the ioncube 5.3 extension and not the 5.1

; Enable ioncube extension module
zend_extension =  /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_5.1.so

Should be

; Enable ioncube extension module
zend_extension =  /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so

Cheers!

[bblori]

For x86-32 bit should be

; Enable ioncube extension module
zend_extension = /usr/lib/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so

Great How-to!

Just a little correction

Since we are upgrading to php 5.3 we need the ioncube 5.3 extension and not the 5.1

; Enable ioncube extension module
zend_extension =  /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_5.1.so

Should be

; Enable ioncube extension module
zend_extension =  /usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so

Cheers!