Re: [cobalt-security] Apache pkgs

["D. Yates Buckley" <yates@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Sorry for this silly post, but it might help someone searching for
problems... It would have helped me!

When I installed the packages:
 RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-15417.pkg , RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-14559.pkg
 RaQ4-All-System-2.0.1-14185.pkg , RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-13323.pkg

On one raq I found that my PHP had been downgraded from the pkgmaster 4.1.2
to a 4.0.1
so all my code would work in very very bizarre ways. Indeed I lost a day
trying to debug
php till I tried uploading a php_info and noted the downgrade.
I installed pkgmaster's php on top and all was well, for some reason this
raq did not
require a rpm -i --force of the contents of the pkgs above.

On another raq httpd dissappeared, and would not restart complaining about
Zend:
Failed loading /usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendOptimizer.so:
/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendOptimizer.so: undefined symbol: zend_get_ini_entry

Here I wasted the better half of a morning with all sites down! Ugh...
Basically I did the following and it seems to work happily:

(I assume all the above pkgs are installed)

- Comment out modules from httpd.conf (php, mysql_auth...)
- Restart httpd or keep commenting things out till finally httpd appears
- Now stop httpd
- Download the pkgmaster php version
- tar -zxvf RaQ4-PHP-4.1.2-3.pkg somewhere
- rpm -i --force the RPMS in there
- Remove comments from php in httpd.conf, make sure php.ini has
  Zend and other odd things commented out as well.. checking logfiles.

I am left with an old ZendOptimiser that will not work, but everything else
seems fine now.

Note: that the functions trim() and preg_match_all() both are different
from 4.0.1 to 4.2.1, if you
get this error you need to install the pkgmaster.com 4.2.1 version.

I hope this helps someone go through the upgrade with less panick that I did.

Yates Buckley,
Technical Director, Unit9 Ltd.