OK, EA3 is in the release tree... now what?

[verdon]

Just playing devil's advocate here...

I have
WHM 11.11.0 cPanel 11.15.0-R17649
CENTOS Enterprise 3.9 i686 on standard - WHM X v3.1.0

I'm running along with apache 1.3 and php 4.4.7 and mysql 4.1.2 and everything is nice and stable, server loads aren't too bad, and so on.

Is there any real reason for me to up to Apache 2 right away? If so, which one? Will I realize improved performance? I don't plan on moving to php 5.x for a couple months yet. Does that matter?

Just wondering,
verdon

[cPanelDavidG]

EA3 does provide the ability to run PHP 4 and 5 side-by-side. Perhaps when you do want to migrate to PHP 5, you would want to load both so .php files are executed as PHP 5 and any PHP 4 scripts that break can be temporarily renamed to .php4 until the coder can update the scripts to PHP 5.

[verdon]

Ahh... now there's a good reason. Thanks. Has anyone doing this in production noticed any significant changes in server load?

[oshs]

All I've experienced are headaches with the new EA3 resulting in broken php scripts all over the place.

My resolution was to revert to Cpanel's STABLE build and use the previous version of EasyApache to fix it all up.

Shouldn't there be some communication from Cpanel about the new EA3 and it's new features such as Mod-suPHP and Suhosin and nice straightforward how-tos for using the new script and overcoming common errors?

[lostinspace]

We went to Apache 2.x/Php 5.x + suPHP from Apache 1.x/PHP 4.x on all our shared boxes and had very minor issues.

The biggest issues for us were:

Files owned by "nobody".
*Check Gallery and Soholaunch installations
Fixed with this simple script from another thread (sorry, don't remember the persons name that posted it):

#!/bin/bash
cd /var/cpanel/users
for user in *
do
chown -R $user.$user /home/$user/public_html/*
done

Users with php configuration values in their .htaccess files.
Some configuration lines won't work with suPHP - at least, not within the .htaccess file. In particular, "php_value" and "php_flag" values.

You must move all lines beginning with "php_value" and "php_flag" from the .htaccess file into a file called php.ini (in the public_html directory). Then you must add a line to the .htaccess file like the one below (of course "username" being your actual username).

suPHP_ConfigPath /home/username/public_html

You will need to remove php_value and php_flag from ALL .htaccess files you may have. However, you only need to add the suPHP_ConfigPath line in the .htaccess file in the public_html directory.

Hope this helps!

[oshs]

Thanks for the tips Josh I'll have a go on one of our servers shortly.

[takeover]

upon running easyapache...

Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/auto/Curses/Curses.so' for module Curses: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/auto/Curses/Curses.so: undefined symbol: COLOR_PAIRS at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Curses/UI.pm line 18
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Curses/UI.pm line 18.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Curses/UI.pm line 18.
Compilation failed in require at /var/cpanel/perl/easy/Cpanel/Easy/Apache/UI/CLI/Config.pm line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/cpanel/perl/easy/Cpanel/Easy/Apache/UI/CLI/Config.pm line 5.
Compilation failed in require at /var/cpanel/perl/easy/Cpanel/Easy/Apache/UI/CLI.pm line 196.

have run checkperlmodules, fixperl and forced a cpanel update

[cPanelDavidG]

upon running easyapache...

Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/auto/Curses/Curses.so' for module Curses: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/auto/Curses/Curses.so: undefined symbol: COLOR_PAIRS at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Curses/UI.pm line 18
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Curses/UI.pm line 18.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Curses/UI.pm line 18.
Compilation failed in require at /var/cpanel/perl/easy/Cpanel/Easy/Apache/UI/CLI/Config.pm line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/cpanel/perl/easy/Cpanel/Easy/Apache/UI/CLI/Config.pm line 5.
Compilation failed in require at /var/cpanel/perl/easy/Cpanel/Easy/Apache/UI/CLI.pm line 196.

have run checkperlmodules, fixperl and forced a cpanel update

Are you running Perl 5.8.8? If not, check out our cPanel 11 Upgrade Checklist sticky post on how to install that.

Otherwise, if you are running Perl 5.8.8, please submit a support ticket regarding this issue directly to us.

[xisn]

David G -

I have the exact same error as described by takeover, here is the output from perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux

[cPanelDavidG]

David G -

I have the exact same error as described by takeover, here is the output from perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux

I'd recommend submitting a support ticket so we can have this issue resolved for you as well .

[cpanelnick]

Try

/scripts/perlinstaller --force Curses

[asiams]

Users with php configuration values in their .htaccess files.
Some configuration lines won't work with suPHP - at least, not within the .htaccess file. In particular, "php_value" and "php_flag" values.

You must move all lines beginning with "php_value" and "php_flag" from the .htaccess file into a file called php.ini (in the public_html directory). Then you must add a line to the .htaccess file like the one below (of course "username" being your actual username).

suPHP_ConfigPath /home/username/public_html

You will need to remove php_value and php_flag from ALL .htaccess files you may have. However, you only need to add the suPHP_ConfigPath line in the .htaccess file in the public_html directory.

I do not use suPHP. But I have problem in using password protection from Cpanel for the customers.

Customers want to use basic password protection for the folders. Now with Apache 2.2, it does not work from Cpanel.

What would be the proper way to make this feature work from Cpanel?

WHM 11.11.0 cPanel 11.15.0-C17665
CENTOS Enterprise 4.5 i686 on standard - WHM X v3.1.0

Thanks in advance.

asiams

[cPanelDavidG]

I do not use suPHP. But I have problem in using password protection from Cpanel for the customers.

Customers want to use basic password protection for the folders. Now with Apache 2.2, it does not work from Cpanel.

What would be the proper way to make this feature work from Cpanel?

WHM 11.11.0 cPanel 11.15.0-C17665
CENTOS Enterprise 4.5 i686 on standard - WHM X v3.1.0

Thanks in advance.

asiams

I would recommend you submit a support ticket regarding this issue