Comments on: PHP 5.4 is now obsolete on Debian

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:27:53 +0000

In reply to Jimmy. I suspect at that point you'll either need to find another repo, or just move up to the systemd versions of Debian.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:30:32 +0000

When I do this, it wants to install apache and mysql. I use nginx and mariadb. How can I upgrade from php5.4 to 5.6 without installing these? Also if I’m using php-fpm, does the upgrade process change?

By: tenox

tenox — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 06:08:18 +0000

In reply to neozeed. Try Mezzanine or Django-CMS

By: tenox

tenox — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 03:19:18 +0000

In reply to neozeed. Wordpress surely is. But PHP is not low maintenance from sysadmin point of view. In fact it's a nightmare.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:50:00 +0000

In reply to tony. no systemd ..... I'm too hands off to make such a massive switch. Maybe when it's a few versions older.

By: tony

tony — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:15:36 +0000

Just wondering…why stick to Wheezy?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:12:39 +0000

In reply to tenox.

Yeah, it’s basically what this ‘cache’ pluggin does, is it builds the pages as requested, then just serves static pages. Themes change, and I guess for companies, advertising etc as they will have different embedded tracking and advertising.

Once I get some push on various projects cross compiling, then I’ll look into replacing wordpress… although when it runs, it is pretty low maintenance.

By: tenox

tenox — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 10:02:48 +0000

I don’t think that WordPress supports IE3.0 either. Sarcasm aside there are new CMS systems that don’t use PHP and suck less. Even Python based. Also there is new paradigm of static page generation via CMS. You don’t edit 5 year old blog posts that often and static pages use lot less server resources compared to dynamic.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 03:07:20 +0000

In reply to tenox. I'd love to pay someone to write me a system that works on IIS 4 + ASP/SQL 4.21 and is usable on IE 3.0 and higher. But I don't see that happening anytime soon.

By: tenox

tenox — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:33:18 +0000

OMG ditch PHP and WordPress 🙂