Since PHP4 is officially dead, it is now urgent to migrate your applications to PHP5, but it’s not that easy and you’ll have to test them before replacing PHP4 by PHP5 on your server. This article will help you to install both PHP4 and PHP5 on your box and swicth easily between them… The problem It is not possible to enable both PHP4 and PHP5 Apache2 modules on the same webserver, it causes shared objects collision. Then, the idea is to enable PHP5 as Apache2 module on one side and PHP4 as CGI on the other side. ...

Norbert Tretkowski recently worked on packaging MySQL 5.0.67, the latest Community Edition release of MySQL Server. But, since the next Debian version - Lenny - is already frozen, the packages were not uploaded to the official archive. Instead of that, I rebuilt them and made them available on Dotdeb for Etch amd64/i386. Please take a look at the official Changelog before upgrading and thank Norbert for his good work.

The Qmail package from Dotdeb has been built with SMTP-auth features (but disabled by default). Here is the way to use them… Installation First of all, we suppose that : you installed the last Qmail and Vpopmail packages from Dotdeb you’re launching them using the bundled init scripts (with tcpserver) Configuration To enable SMTP-auth, you just have to edit the /etc/init.d/qmail init script and replace these lines : sh -c "start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --user qmaild --pidfile /var/run/tcpserver_smtpd.pid --make-pidfile --exec /usr/bin/tcpserver -- -R -u `id -u qmaild` -g `id -g nobody` -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 0 smtp $rblsmtpd /usr/sbin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | $logger &" by these ones : ...

On August 7th, the PHP Group has published the last version of PHP4, numbered 4.4.9 : It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the last PHP 4.4 release. On August 22nd, Stefan Esser released the appropriate Suhosin patch, allowing me to package PHP 4.4.9 for Debian Etch amd64/i386 (Sarge support is now discontinued). ...