Starsol Blog Upgrading PHP from source code: An adventure in Putty

Today I was tasked with upgrading PHP 5.3.3 to the latest 5.4 (5.4.28) on a Red Hat server. It sounded like a quite simple task, I was expecting to do something like yum install php54 and for yum to manage everything and the upgrade would be complete in a couple of minutes. Unfortunately, it appears ...read more