Posts Tagged ‘MCRYPT’

How to Upgrade PHP to 5.2 in CentOS

Apr 10, 2010 Drupal, Work, web development

Developing a Drupal community site has been really good for a while until I needed to search a module to integrate Facebook Connect with it. I found this module specifically for that. Unfortunately, it requires PHP version 5.2, but the one on the Godaddy VPS (which is by default a CentOS flavor) is 5.1 I think. I needed to upgrade the PHP version to 5.2, and the best possible way is to install the latest rpm for CentOS and do a yum update. Here were the steps I did:

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How to Install/Recompile MCRYPT in PHP (CentOS VPS)

Jan 17, 2010 Work, web development

I’m starting to develop sites with the Interspire Shopping Cart system, which I think is totally way better than Prestashop. I suggest people who want a better system than Prestashop to checkout the Interspire Shopping Cart, its worth every penny.

So I’m setting it up for our company in a VPS hosting, and it requires the PHP installation to be compiled with MCRYPT package. Specifically, this is needed for the manual credit card processing module. And it seems that the Godaddy VPS support is NOT willing to support (ironic) so I had to deal with the challenge myself. I found this instructions from NotesBit.com on how to recompile PHP with MCRYPT support. Here are the steps I followed – it was actually easier than I thought:

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