Upgrading from 4.2.2

thanx for your help, it worked.. more or less.. but now I cant follow any links to directories from the main site. like I can goto mysite.com/index.php and mysite.com/test.php but not mysite.com/forums/index.php or just about any directory inside the home directory...

I did it through yum btw not rpm, I saw they had a method to add thier channel to yum so I used it.

also points upped to 200.

Which error do you get when you try to access
mysite.com/forums/index.php

no error it just doesnt go there, doesnt load atall, its like I dodnt click atall.

Are there any entries in the apache errorlog ?

my logs are full of following :

[Sun Nov 28 03:42:51 2004] [notice] child pid 20485 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:43:24 2004] [notice] child pid 20480 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:43:43 2004] [notice] child pid 20538 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:45:03 2004] [notice] child pid 20543 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:45:16 2004] [notice] child pid 20557 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:46:20 2004] [notice] child pid 20569 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:46:49 2004] [notice] child pid 20567 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:47:38 2004] [notice] child pid 20558 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:48:02 2004] [notice] child pid 20580 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:48:46 2004] [notice] child pid 20586 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:49:09 2004] [notice] child pid 20588 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:49:18 2004] [notice] child pid 20589 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:49:54 2004] [notice] child pid 20581 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:50:25 2004] [notice] child pid 20600 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:51:02 2004] [notice] child pid 20603 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:51:10 2004] [notice] child pid 20613 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:51:39 2004] [notice] child pid 20616 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:51:56 2004] [notice] child pid 20626 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:52:36 2004] [notice] child pid 20632 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:54:03 2004] [notice] child pid 20634 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:55:05 2004] [notice] child pid 20639 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:55:38 2004] [notice] child pid 20675 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:57:37 2004] [notice] child pid 20676 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:58:09 2004] [notice] child pid 20685 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 03:59:37 2004] [notice] child pid 20699 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:00:24 2004] [notice] child pid 20718 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:01:13 2004] [notice] child pid 20713 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:01:59 2004] [notice] child pid 20719 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:02:09 2004] [notice] child pid 20727 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:02:27 2004] [notice] child pid 20990 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:04:20 2004] [notice] child pid 20979 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:04:23 2004] [notice] child pid 20992 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:06:05 2004] [notice] child pid 20997 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:06:09 2004] [notice] child pid 21014 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:06:14 2004] [notice] child pid 21013 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:08:28 2004] [notice] child pid 21015 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:08:37 2004] [notice] child pid 21012 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:09:34 2004] [notice] child pid 21028 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:10:51 2004] [notice] child pid 21034 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Nov 28 04:12:22 2004] [notice] child pid 21044 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

Seems that the upgraded php-version via rpms have a problem with some libraries so the web server crashes. To track such an error down is very complicated as you need debugging skills.

Try recompiling php on your own. If you get a php-info-page you can see which configure options you can use.

Another option is to upgrade the whole sever to a newer version. This might be less work than trying to get php 4.3.9 to work with that system.

If you are satisfied with a php 4.3.6 Try the rpms from here: http://theprecipice.org/gallery/redhat-9/ which have been reported to work on RH9 (http:Q_21197608.html)

ok thanx for your help, so all im going to be doing is removing the current php then reinstalling the 4.3.6 version via yum?

here is a php info file :

http://www.kingpinservers.com/kps.php

you can try
 http://www.kingpinservers.com/forums/index.php

and see what im talking about.

That version of php is compiled as filter, which is not realy stable. Try to recompile php to use php as handler and not as filter.

With that command-line (in the unpacked php-surces. YOu might also need to install additional devel-packes if some files can not be found during the configure):
'./configure' '--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--cache-file=../config.cache' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' '--disable-debug' '--enable-pic' '--disable-rpath' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--with-bz2' '--with-db4=/usr' '--with-curl' '--with-dom=/usr' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-ttf' '--with-gdbm' '--with-gettext' '--with-ncurses' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-openssl' '--with-png' '--with-pspell' '--with-regex=system' '--with-xml' '--with-expat-dir=/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-layout=GNU' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-discard-path' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-yp' '--enable-wddx' '--without-oci8' '--with-pear=/usr/share/pear' '--with-imap=shared' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-kerberos=/usr/kerberos' '--with-ldap=shared' '--with-mysql=shared,/usr' '--enable-xslt=shared' '--with-xslt-sablot' '--with-sablot-js=/usr' '--with-mhash=shared' '--with-mcrypt=shared' '--with-snmp=shared,/usr' '--with-snmp=shared' '--enable-ucd-snmp-hack' '--with-pgsql=shared' '--with-unixODBC=shared' '--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-versioning' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-dbx' '--enable-dio' '--enable-mcal' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-mbregex' '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs'
make
make install

thanx for your help but enough I dont need anymore headaches, after installing about 9 packaes because php isntallation refused to recognize the ones that were already on the system even though they were newer, I gave up uninstalled the 4.3.9 and went back to good old 4.2.2 and leaving the 4.3 to some other time and some other distro. thankyou for your help and maybe I will use this reference some other day.