How do I upgrade to 5.2.11?
I went to http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/
downloaded the 5.2.30 installer and ran it. The install apparently went fine (the phpinfo test page looks as expected), but when I go to my wordpress page I get a blank white page with big letters saying “Error establishing a database connection”.
Going to php.net I see that there is a 5.2.11 tarball. Is installing as simple as a
make clean
make install
? Will that give me something that both hooks up to apache2 and can communicate with mysql (unlike, apparently, the 5.3.0 install)?
Or is there some trivial thing I need to do to get Mark Liyanage’s php to play nice with wordpress?
Just like Alison I’d like to know how do I fix this. Upgrading to 10.6 is not an option because I’m using an old PPC mac as my server.
Is there an upgraded PHP I can download and install that will play nice with what’s already installed (in case Apple releases any further 10.5.x upgrades or security fixes or whatever)?
