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i need to update all the installaion on my server
i use frebsd and i do not want to stay with
apach 1.3
mysql 3
php 4
and espacially i need to at the very least update proftpd (if i cannot change it to vsftpd )
and so on
if i install manually apache 2 php 5 and mysql 4.1
and all i need will direct admin keep working?
and can i change sendmail to postfix?

thanks
 
MySQL 4.1 is installed by default, not 3.x
There are upgrade instructions for customapache and apache 2.x
please see:
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=441

For php5 you can:
1. Stop using customapache to build apache (no ./build php or ./build all) and download and build the source yourself
OR
2. Download the source and modify the customapache script accordingly (you would have to do this every time you updated customapache).

DirectAdmin uses exim, not sendmail.

Search the version updates and howto forums (or all of them), since most of the software upgrades you want to attempt have been addressed already.
 
jmstacey said:
MySQL 4.1 is installed by default, not 3.x
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You sure its 4.1, I installed DA on a new server 2 weeks ago and it installed 4.0.17.
 
I'm not sure on other Operating Systems, but at least on Debian, 4.1 is installed by default.
 
Interesting so maybe the 4.0.17 problem is just isolated to FreeBSD variants of directadmin, I guess the easiest way to check is browse through the dir's on the directadmin webspace.
 
this is what I found.

debian 3.1

http://files.directadmin.com/services/debian_3.1/mysql-standard-4.1.10-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz

debian 3.0

http://files.directadmin.com/services/debian_3.0/mysql-standard-4.1.10-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz

last update 12 feb 2005

fedora 3

http://files.directadmin.com/services/fedora_3/MySQL-server-4.1.10a-0.i386.rpm

last update 10 mar 2005

es_40

http://files.directadmin.com/services/es_4.0/MySQL-server-4.1.11-0.i386.rpm

last update 4 april 2005

freebsd 4.8
http://files.directadmin.com/servic...tandard-4.0.17-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz
dec 14 2003

http://files.directadmin.com/services/freebsd4.8/mysql-standard-4.1.8-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz
dec 14 2004

it installs 4.0.17 on new install. no obvious way of installing the 4.1.8 also out of date package on top

freebsd 5.1
http://files.directadmin.com/services/freebsd5.1/mysql-4.0.17-unknown-freebsd5.1-i386.tar.gz
dec 18 2003

http://files.directadmin.com/services/freebsd5.1/mysql-4.1.11-unknown-freebsd5.1-i386.tar.gz
15 april 2005

it installs 4.0.17 on new install. no obvious way of installing the 4.1.11 on top


Now I dont know the latest version of debian or other linux oses, but freebsd 4.8 and 5.1 should be updated to reflect the newer FreeBSD version's and the mysql should be updated, I was surprised to see there is 4.1 packages there but at the moment they seem dorment.
 
They don't necassarily need to upgrade. Just because DirectAdmin was compiled on FreeBSD 4.8 it works just fine on 4.11

Debian is uptodate, 3.0 being stable and 3.1 benig unstable (wood/sarge)
Thankfully on Debian and FreeBSD 4.x MySQL can be updated without depending on DirectAdmin providing binaries.

I haven't checked, but I think the mysql installation for Debian now pulls the binary straight from the MySQL website.
 
this is a major issue, it is actually currently a pain in the arse to upgrade mysql the way directadmin installs it on freebsd.

email ignored.
over 3 posts in 3 different threads on these forums no reply from da staff.

Problems I see is directadmin have left it as 4.8 since the Da binary works on 4.11 and left the mysql package in place that was latest on 4.8 release, so they have 2 problems in that (a) the mysql package is 18 months out of date (b) it installs from source into a weird location.

I emailed DA about how easy it is to make DA install a FreeBSD package and the ftp location to get 4.0.24 from (precompiled). This would also result it been installed in a good location and be much easier for maintenance/upgrades.
 
Where did you link them to to get the precompiled MySQl from? I would like to check it out and see how it is compiled, ie static etc etc.

I do hope they make it a standard install as far as directory locations etc and make it so we can use ports to update it.
 
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