Hi folks,
For a while, i've been trying to run drupal-4.7beta3 on my CentOS-3.5 (RHEL3 variant) machine. Unfortunately, as many people know, the RHEL3 variants only are updated through php-4.3.2.
I had found the posting http://drupal.org/node/29108 which talks about how to 4.6.3 working on RHEL3, however, the links to atomicrocketturtule.com were all dead.
I searched high and low for PHP rpms post-4.3.3 on this site, as well as the CentOS and RHEL sites, but could not find anything.
Being the RH fiend that i am these days i didn't want to scrap my RPMs and build from source. I wanted to upgrade my RPMS and try to keep them as close to RH stock as possible.
So, i finally bit the bullet and tried to compile my own RPMs of php in order to be able to run the newer versions of drupal. As mentioned, I wanted to keep the RPMs as close to stock RHEL as possible, so i tried downloading a newer version of the PHP source and using the existing PHP-4.3.2.spec file. However, that didn't work so well since there were too many changes, so i did what i thought was the next best thing...to use the Fedora RPMs. I found php-4.3.11 RPMS from Fedora Core 3 (i didn't use FC4 because that was php-4.4.x, and i didn't want to upgrade that far). I took the php-4.3.11 RPM and compiled it (along with the packages that php-4.3.11 depends on) on my CentOS-3.5 machine.