Upgrade Planned: PHP 4.3.11 & MySQL 4.1

I've been planning this for a while.. but these upgrades should finally be completed this weekend on saturday (May 28th). As always, if you notice any issues with these upgrades, please let me know at support@hostgator.com ATTN: Lyron.

[Andeavour]

Has this happened, because Navigator is still reporting MySQL 4.0.22?

[sonic]

I believe MySQL 4.1 is not yet supported by cPanel.
Is that not so?

sonic

[Andeavour]

phpinfo() run on Navigator still reports 4.0.22 as well
Unfortunately I have a client who's system has been developed on 4.1.1 who uses datediff() functionality, so I was hoping for this upgrade...

[circpros]

Is there a loss of certain calls related to the upgrade? I'm using a very simple text updater program that calls from a flat log file to fill in content, and am getting the following error.

Warning: fopen(post.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/***/public_html/text.php on line 58

Warning: flock(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/***/public_html/text.php on line 59

Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/***/public_html/text.php on line 60

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/***/public_html/text.php on line 61

The section in the referenced file is listed below with the pertainent lines in bold italics:

### UPDATING LOG FILE ###

case 'update':

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {

$com = stripslashes($com);

}

$fp = fopen($logfile, "w");

flock($fp, LOCK_EX);

fputs($fp, $com);

fclose($fp);

echo <<<EOF

<form action="$PHP_SELF" method="POST">

Successfully updated.<br>

<input type=hidden name=action value=admin>

<input type=hidden name=pass value="$pass">

<input type=submit value="BACK"></form>

</td></tr></table><hr>

EOF;

break;

### UPDATING LOG FILE ###

My cpanel reflects PHP version 4.3.10 and MySQL version 4.0.22. I'm not certain that the Cpanel is reflecting the correct info, because I know these calls worked before I left for vacation, and don't work now.... The only intervening event I can see is the upgrade. Is there a change in syntax between PHP versions that renders the above language obsolete?

No, sorry had other issues that needed to be addressed. Will get it done soon.

[circpros]

And my problem was simply permissions based. Probably related to the ftp hack that happened while I was on vacation.......

[tolgaorhon]

Any news about the upgrade? Although not urgent, upgrade to 4.1 would be nice as it supports different charsets and colations.

[David]

Even though cpanel is showing 4.3.10, I think something has changed on my server (i.e. the upgrade or configuration change) because we have two sites running phpATM and they are now both giving this error randomly:
Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in /home/..../public_html/include/common.php on line 65

I am the only one who has file level access to these sites, and nothing has changed with any of the php code, so something strange must be going on. Can anyone shed light on this?


David

[circpros]

Double check permissions David. I've had a few instances of file permissions changing on me with noone accessing them, and spending a lot of time trying to figure it out before I just checked permissions.....

[c-double]

there's a security advisory out for mysql
http://secunia.com/advisories/16170/
they say to upgrade to version 4.1.13

[jwhouse]

Any idea when this happened? Today, I began having some trouble with my nuke site and then noticed in cpanel that the php version is now 4.3.11 but the sql version is still 4.0.24.

EDIT:Nevermind. I figured it out, although I'm not sure why it only started happening today. Anyway, Thanks!

[lynt]

Anyone else see their timestamps are warped?!!?

Plus some PHP functions that were working are now not ie:

I wish to use: imagettftext()

And PHP support say "You need to compile the freetype library into php to be able to use that function."

[markgroen]

Just hoping I might get an answer faster this way as it's been about an hour and half since I emailed support and maybe someone is checking this more often.

Anyhoo - my question is: cadillac doesn't seem to have been upgraded to MySQL 4.1.x yet and of course wondering what the hold up is as it's a pretty old version and think there are some security updates about it to upgrade too.

UPDATE: Just in from support:

We are migrating all our server to mysql 4.1 one by one. They are being done in  batches. You can expect to have cadillac upgraded by the next weekend at the  max. We will try to post in the forum about this as well.

I re-wrote my sql to use a join instead of a sub-query just in case, it's not as elegant and fast so looking forward to the upgrade.

[GatorShashank]

We do check into this forum as well but normally all technical issues are handled only when you mail support@hostgator.com . So just submit a ticket whenever you need an instant update from our support team. Regarding the upgrade issue. It has already been discussed about the upgrade internally amongst us and we are working on getting the servers upgraded to the Mysql 4.1 very soon.

We will keep you posted.

[MachineDog]

Already been done for awhile on my box..

[mxp]

When can we expect to see an upgrade to mysql v4.1? Dont know about others but the server im on is running MySQL 4.0.25-standard.

many thanks
mxp

Hello,

If you can open a ticket with the server or your domain name, and ask for the upgrade, we can do this for you. Thanks.