If it was up to me, we'd be using a different distro. Thanks for the advice, I think I'll try to convince my sysadmin to upgrade to 5.2.4.
-Brendan On Feb 10, 11:47 am, Iltar <[email protected]> wrote: > If php 5.2.6 wasn't secure, ubuntu wouldn't have it. I recommend > changing OS. CentOS is great for uptime, but the packages are way > behind... > > On Feb 10, 4:59 pm, Pablo Godel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Brendan, > > > You should consider downloading and compiling PHP from source. > > > CentOS PHP package is so old and behind is not even funny. > > > It is completely retarded to think that because it comes in a RPM it > > will be more secure. > > > Pablo > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:52 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > I'm currently developing an application in sf1.2 (which is awesome, > > > congrats Fabien), but I have to deploy to a centOS machine, which only > > > supports php 5.1.6. I have a few questions: > > > > 1) I uploaded my source, and all the pages work except the homepage, > > > which gives a SQLSTATE error. Is it possible to use sf1.2 with php > > > 5.1.6, just without certain features? If so, what might be causing a > > > SQLSTATE error? > > > > 2) Is downgrading to sf1.1 my best option for compatibility? > > > > 3) My sysadmin is refusing to upgrade to php 5.2.4 because he thinks > > > that there are inherent security flaws in anything that's not in rpm. > > > Is this the case? Should we be concerned about upgrading to php > > > 5.2.4? I'm not sure why we're even using centOS, nothing that we do > > > is mission critical, the sysadmin is pretty paranoid, and obviously > > > uptime is important, but we aren' t handling credit card transactions > > > or anything. > > > > Thanks for the help, > > > > -Brendan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
