Kolab 16 and newer version of php than 5.4

[Daniel Hoffend]

Hi

The best way to maintain multiple php version is to configure your
apache/nginx/whatever to use php via cgi or php-fpm. Then you can
switch between php versions per hosting/virtualdomain. Of course
you've to maintain your own webserver configuration but that's
the best way to seperate php versions.

1) I personally prefer php-fpm over mod-php due to memory consumtion
speed and such

2) I also prefer to keep applications/services seperate on servers
or vms. If someone breaks into some random webapplication your
hopefully mission critical mail infrastructure isn't at risk. It
also makes upgrades easier because you don't have too many side
effects.

--
Regards
Daniel


Am 2017-03-23 09:14, schrieb Rickard Osser:
> Hi,
> 
> the way RedHat (CentOS) works is to support the initial version of a
> software included in the distribution and back-patch them to meet
> security needs. So, for php the initital version was 5.4 and for RHEL7
> and CentOS7 that will always stay the current version. Kolab is
> packaged with the dependency for php and the version included in
> CentOS7 is v5.4. They also give the possibility to do side load later
> versions of PHP and other software with SCL but they have different
> names and thus aren't automatically tied into dependency resolution.
> 
> You can install both versions of PHP and Apache (2.4 in SCL) and then
> turn off the regular older version and configure the newer package to
> be used instead. You just can't uninstall the dependency version.
> 
> I hope this was a clear description of how RH maintains it's
> compatibility for enterprises.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Rickard
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 08:16 +0100, Aleksander Machniak wrote:
>> On 22.03.2017 23:18, Thomas Black wrote:
>> > thanks for your answer. I don't understand the same. Is it php 5.6
>> > too
>> > much different that Kolab 16 will not work with php 5.6?
>> 
>> It should work without issues. I think it might be a bug in packaging
>> or
>> Swig limitation, but I've heard only about problems with PHP7.
>> 
>> I can't help you on packaging.
>> 
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