Upgrading of php-modules / apt-get

[kristian]

Hi,

Got a few questions for you ..

We're thinking of using DirectAdmin, however I'm used to just apt-get'ing (on Debian) php-modules I need.
From what I've read on this page, with DA I have to download, compile and add the module to the 'configure.php'-file to get them enabled. Is there an easy way to keep the modules up to date, or do I need to watch their websites, download any new versions, compile, and run the build-script again?

Also - Has anyone tried to install applications (apache, exim, etc) from apt-get (or other package-system) instead of using DA's build-script? If yes - with success? I would like to give that a try, as the upgrading/securityfixing will be a matter of using apt-get, instead of having to download source and compile it.

Thanks for any help.

 

[toml]

The Apache/PHP system that DA uses, is geared toward how they do their accounting and virtual web serving. You might be able to just use apt-get and make sure you install all the modules needed by DA and make sure it uses the DA version of the .conf files. I don't know if that will work or not, but you are free to try. Plus, if something is not working right, you will be hard pressed to get too much help from here, since I don't think anyone else here is doing that.

John keeps the build script pretty upto date, so unless you need a lot of other php modules, you should be fine just doing the build update and build every so often. You could also integrate your own build functions into the script to build and integrate your php modules, then it should be fairly easy to do the builds and keep up to date. The way I would do it is to create a new shell script with the code to download/configure/build your modules only and then after doing a build update add the line to source your script and kick of the building of those modules.