I have upgraded to Fedora 4 Test 1, which is the beta release for the next Fedora Core version. In turn, it caused a few slight problems on the site. PHP was upgraded to version 5.x.x, from version 4.3.10 and MySQL was updated from version 3.23(?) to 4.1. WordPress was complaining first about the database, then about PHP. I’ve sorted it out. As anyone who has any Linux admin experience knows, it’s usually just a matter of a configuration files or two and restarting services, which were the problems in this case. Let me know in the comments if you notice any differences or problems. Thanks.
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I’m glad to hear it was an easy fix. I’ve definitely had a few run-ins with the PHP configuration demons who were trying to make me crazy, since PHP can be SO picky about its config and versions and how it ties into Apache etc. A while ago I totally dumped PHP from my servers, since I was using Perl for all the heavy stuff anyway, and it was mostly trivial to switch from PHP to SSI regexes for the “glue” code that PHP was doing. Perl has no configuration whatsoever, and I’ve never had any problems with modules or anything… in general I’ve just been much happier with it than with PHP.
I have tried Perl, but have been much happier with PHP. I wrote a few web applications for the company I work for using PHP and have had good results. PHP, along with php-mssql, allowed me to tie my company’s web app running on a BSD box in with our company-wide database which runs Microsoft SQL Server. I would have rather used MySQL or PostgreSQL (on *nix), but this is a system that’s already in place.
I notice that my site still works with the new version too, which is always a plus.