Compiling Extensions for php5.6

[Christoph]

Hi,

I updatet my plesk today from 10.3 to 12.0... so I am "kind of new" to the new features.
It's a pleasure, to be able to use php 5.3 and 5.6 both.
But I ran into troubles when building modules. 5.3 is "standard" for plesk, right? And if I want to work with 5.6, I only have those little installation in /opt/plesk/php/5.6 ?
Thats not much I had to install for example phpdevel using yum (I am working on CentOS 6.2).
After compiling with phpize & co, I get the warning that my module-APi doesn't match between "Module compiled" and "PHP compiled"...
Now my question: How can I install the correct phpize-version?

I searched a lot on the internet and I know about "yum search php56"... but sadly, the following doesn't help:

yum install plesk-php56-devel.x86_64

I somehow always gets the phpize-setup for php5.3.

I would be also fine to "override" the default version (so that 5.6 is server-wide default), but I think thats not possible?

Thanks in advance!

 

[IgorG]

Try to use, for example http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP_5....hp56-devel-5.6.17-centos6.16011212.x86_64.rpm

 

[Christoph]

Hi,
Thanks for the answer, tried it but it results in "package already installed" (ssems to be the same package I found with yum?)
And if I check the phpize-version using:

/usr/bin/phpize -v

I get:

PHP Api Version:         20090626
Zend Module Api No:      20090626
Zend Extension Api No:   220090626

which is not compatible to the php5.6 - installation?

 

[trialotto]

@Cristoph,

Start with a full removal of plesk-phpxx-devel and ALL associated packages (there are many, so be certain that all are removed with yum).

Afterwards, install the package with the link provided by @IgorG, that should do the trick.

Regards.....

 

[Christoph]

Very great support here, thank you!
That worked for me (at least, it looks like, phpinfo tells me it loads the modules )

For anyone having similar problems, my thoughts:
I had to uninstall phpdevel twice (once for 5.3, once for 5.6)
I had to look for the new installed phpdevel from IgorG, it was located in /opt/plesk/php/(version)/bin/ (no longer in /usr/bin/ !)
I had to do some "make clean" until it compiled fine

Thank you again, I am very happy with your support (for comparison: my hosting-provider didn't understand what I was looking for and the serverfault-community closed my question)

 

[trialotto]

@Christoph,

No problem, glad to be of any assistance. Any "like" would be much appreciated.

Note that the Plesk forum is quite unique: besides the considerable and knowledgeable Plesk Team, the forum has it´s own base of (voluntary) Plesk Experts.

By the way, in my humble opinion, you should consider to evaluate the services of your hosting provider: if your hosting provider does not want to and/or cannot help you in this type of issues, that really are not rocket science, (generally) a bad omen for the future is present.

In my humble opinion, it can do no harm to investigate other hosting providers: service can only improve, otherwise just stay at the current provider.

Regards.....