As plesk panel provide lower version of php and mysql , so for the application which needs higher php version we need to upgrade php version to higher than php 5.3 , In plesk it is very easy to upgrade php as well as mysql , you just need to follow steps as we are showing here,
First we are checking php and mysql version before upgrade
[server@techtransit ~]# php -v PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Jul 9 2015 17:39:00) Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.6.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by ionCube Ltd. [server@techtransit~]# mysql -V mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.73, for redhat-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.1
Download and Install epel and remi repository
[server@techtransit ~]# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm [server@techtransit ~]# rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm [server@techtransit ~]# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm [server@techtransit ~]# rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm
Now edit remi.repo and enable remi repository
[server@techtransit ~]# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo [remi] name=Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch #baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/remi/$basearch/ mirrorlist=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/remi/mirror enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
save and exit
Now install php by yum command
[server@techtransit ~]# yum install php ========================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ========================================================================================= Updating: php x86_64 5.4.45-1.el6.remi remi 2.8 M Installing for dependencies: compat-mysql51 x86_64 5.1.54-1.el6.remi remi 1.4 M libaio x86_64 0.3.107-10.el6 base 21 k t1lib x86_64 5.1.2-6.el6_2.1 base 160 k Updating for dependencies: mysql x86_64 5.5.45-1.el6.remi remi 5.8 M mysql-libs x86_64 5.5.45-1.el6.remi remi 778 k mysql-server x86_64 5.5.45-1.el6.remi remi 10 M php-cli x86_64 5.4.45-1.el6.remi remi 4.1 M php-common x86_64 5.4.45-1.el6.remi remi 961 k php-gd x86_64 5.4.45-1.el6.remi remi 147 k php-imap x86_64 5.4.45-1.el6.remi remi 83 k php-mbstring x86_64 5.4.45-1.el6.remi remi 948 k php-mysql x86_64 5.4.45-1.el6.remi remi 140 k php-pdo x86_64 5.4.45-1.el6.remi remi 124 k php-xml x86_64 5.4.45-1.el6.remi remi 175 k Transaction Summary =========================================================================================
After installing the packages check the php and mysql upgraded version
[server@techransit ~]# php -v PHP 5.4.45 (cli) (built: Sep 2 2015 18:54:00) Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.6.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by ionCube Ltd. [server@techtransit~]# mysql -V mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.45, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1
Now fix the privilege for mysql databases as this is a important step
[server@techtransit~]# mysql_upgrade -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`
Now php and mysql successfully upgraded .
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