Question: How do I upgrade php to the latest version on my VPS running centos?
Answer:
From the shell, run:
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm remi-release-5.rpm
yum -y --enablerepo=remi update php mysql
/sbin/service httpd restart
You also may want to edit /etc/php.ini and change :
short_open_tag = Off
to
short_open_tag = On
without this change php code will only work when using the full:
<?php
open tag.