Latest PHP on Ubuntu 12.10 lts

THIS IS OLD. GET OFF UBUNTU 12!

So if you want the latest version of PHP on your Ubuntu 12.10 machine you will have to a little more than apt-get install…

Essentially you will need to instruct Ubuntu to install from a non standard location (don’t worry it is safe).

This will also upgrade Apache to 2.4!

Step 1 Update your lists and install 2 new programs

apt-get update
apt-get install python-software-properties
apt-get install software-properties-common

Step 2 With the above two programs installed, add this guys ppa to your listing and then update once again

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
apt-get update

Step 3 Make a backup copy of all you Apache Conf files.

Step 4 Install the latest PHP

apt-get install php5
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

 

Step 5 Sort out you Apache conf files..

When you restart apache now you will likely get a few complaints.. conf files empty or none existent.. unfortunately this is a manual task of eliminating the complaint one at a time.

Using virtual hosts?
You are of course not there yet, Apache 2.4 conf file has new tweaks. If you moved your webroot away from the default you will have re-align this. The site-available config files all now require the extension “.conf”. Make sure all you previous settings, mod-rewrites… etc etc are still there (a spot the diff between your copied version and the new essentially).