[tlug] Upgrading to PHP5 on Fedora

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

TLUG,

My hosting service allows me enough access to do things like handle my 
own upgrades and full administrative access. Usually, because I am more 
of a web designer than an server administrator, I get their support 
staff to manage upgrades and installations.

However, that does cost money, so I thought this time, if it's easy 
enough, I would try upgrading PHP myself. Currently my hosting service 
is running PHP Version 4.4.2, and I would like to upgrade to the latest 
stable build of PHP 5.

At home, I use Ubuntu LTS, and to upgrade to PHP 5 I just used apt-get 
(with the Synaptic GUI) to upgrade. It was very easy.

The hosting machine is using Fedora Core 1. I'm less familiar with Red 
Hat systems, but I do understand that yum is the equivalent of apt-get.

So, I'm hoping I can just do:

yum install php5

... and be off and running.

But because I don't really want to suffer any downtime, I hoped to get 
confirmation here on this list that this will work, and check if I need 
any other configuration options.

If it makes a difference, I'm also running MySQL 5.0 on the system, and 
Apache 2.

Is there anything else I need to know for a smooth upgrade to PHP 5?

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Dave M G