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Is there anyone out there running !gnusocial on #PHP5.4? (which has its security support #EndOfLife in 3 months). I wish to bump the minimum required PHP version to 5.5 for try-catch-finally support.
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nightly branch is now on #PHP5.5 minimum, so you know. :)
What distribution etc. are you running which has you stuck on 5.4?
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@lnxw48 Wait. You run PHP 5.3 on #fresh.federati.net? (checked with curl -I) ... gee, then no wonder you have problems with !gnusocial - we bumped the minimum to PHP 5.4 some time ago, as (1) 5.3 is end of life and (2) proper internationalization/transliteration.
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@knuthollund That should be smooth sailing (unless, like me, you've got homegrown scripts which do some maintenance work and suddenly PID files go missing because of systemd-ifcation). But Debian is awesome. It'll work out fine for you. One thing with Apache (because I think you'll go from 2.x to 2.4) is that they have new syntax for access lists. The htaccess.sample …
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@lnxw48 PHP5.3 is still only usable for FLOSS abandonware :D :D
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@mikael @knuthollund aye, the machine that has #quitter.is was upgraded wheezy -> jessie. Only thing I had to do apart from dist-upgrade was to install the virtual kernel image/header packages, as it otherwise was stuck on linux-image-3.2 :D
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@knuthollund Oh, it's just that the apt package for the kernel that was installed was "linux-image-3.2...." Instead, I wanted the "always latest kernel available", which (for 64bit machines) is provided by the virtual package "linux-image-amd64". So just: apt-get install linux-image-amd64 You probably don't need linux-headers-amd64 unless you're compiling stuff. But y…