Question
Easiest/safest way to get a fully updated LAMP droplet?
- Posted on August 25, 2019
- DigitalOceanUbuntu 18.04
Asked by madSy
All 3 LAMP stacks on the DO marketplace have outdated/insecure components and the default PPA does not let me upgrade PHP, MySQL, Apache, PHPMyAdmin to their latest secure versions.
What would be the easiest/safest way to get a fully updated LAMP droplet? (latest MySQL 5 or 8 would both be ok I guess)
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Hello,
What you can do is to backup your droplet and upgrade the components manually. In this was if anything goes wrong you will be able to revert the changes. Also before upgrading LAMP you need to make sure your application/site is compatible with the newer versions of PHP, MySQL and Apache, this is really important.
If you can provide more information about the droplet - what’s OS is using, I can give you more information about the process.
Alex