How to upgrade PHP version 5.3.3 to 5.3.10 to support Joomla 3.3?

Posted on August 18, 2014

I have search but can’t find the solution, please advice.

[root@do1 ~]# php -version PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Aug 6 2014 05:54:27) Copyright © 1997-2010 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright © 1998-2010 Zend Technologies with Suhosin v0.9.29, Copyright © 2007, by SektionEins GmbH [root@do1 ~]# cat /etc/release CentOS release 6.5 (Final) CentOS release 6.5 (Final) CentOS release 6.5 (Final) cpe:/o:centos:linux:6:GA [root@do1 ~]#

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fullsupp

February 1, 2015

Thanks! Everything instructions followed went breeze! But when I started localhost/phpinfo.ini it is still the same 5.3.3 version. Maybe I’ll have to restart my computer.

Andrew SB

August 18, 2014

In order to upgrade to a newer version of PHP in CentOS 6, you’ll need to enable some external repositories, EPEL and Remi. You can download the repositories’ information and enable them with:

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm

You can then upgrade PHP with: