Installing PHP 5.3

[m.hoffs]

U can also setup suphp with plesk, and compile your own php version without braking plesk.

[sysadmin]

one downside, Plesk 9.5.4 doesn support PHP 5.3.3.
In the CP PHP is not detected (component not installed) and on the domain level the PHP support is grey out.

[sysadmin]

So in short,

Install Plesk 9.5.4 first, selected php5 support.
Next delete the php5.1.6 packages:

[root@ip-10-131-15-77 ~]# rpm -e --nodeps php php-common php-mysql php-imap php-gd php-pdo php-mbstring php-xml php-cli

And install php5.3 ones:
[root@ip-10-131-15-77 ~]# yum install php53
[root@ip-10-131-15-77 ~]# yum install php53-mysql
[root@ip-10-131-15-77 ~]# yum install php53-imap
[root@ip-10-131-15-77 ~]# yum install php53-gd
[root@ip-10-131-15-77 ~]# yum install php53-mbstring
[root@ip-10-131-15-77 ~]# yum install php53-xml

Plesk PSA is still running OK.
Haven tried an actual website, but assumingly should be OK.

[lkanter]

Hello,

Take a look at this thread: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=108371

[alanwong]

Hi,[br][br]Ive tried to install php 5.3(via CLN website) but Im prompted with this error.[br][br]Failed: packages requested raised dependency problems: [php53-common conflicts with php-common][br][br]Would anybody be able to help?