HowTo: Upgrading your Media Temple (dv) 3.0 server to use PHP 5.1.4
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The basis for this guide comes from a Knowledge Base article that can be located here. Most people that use this guide will not have any difficulties unless your site uses Apache's mod_rewrite to make your URLs pretty. Before I get to gar into this here is my current setup on my (dv) 3.0 server.
(dv) Base
WordPress 2.1.2
MySQL 4.1.20
Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
Also, before attempting this PLEASE be sure to backup the current state of your (dv) through your Plesk admin area. To back things up login as the admin account and click on the Virtuozzo link in the bar on the left hand side and then on the Maintenance icon when the main screen loads. Unless you are paying tor (mt)'s backup service you will only have one available slot for the backup. Click New Backup and wait until the process has completed. Once this has completed we can move on the the main event.
The Main Event!
Proceed down the guide through Step 1 and Step 2 and follow the recommendations of the support team accept when you get down to sub point 3 of the section entitled Running PHP via suexec. Instead of adding the following to your vhost.conf:
AddHandler fcgid-script .php5
SuexecUserGroup psacln
/httpdocs>
FCGIWrapper /var/www/vhosts//bin/php5 .php5
Options ExecCGI
allow from all
You will want to add in this:
AddHandler fcgid-script .php .php5
SuexecUserGroup psacln
/httpdocs>
FCGIWrapper /var/www/vhosts//bin/php5 .php
FCGIWrapper /var/www/vhosts//bin/php5 .php5
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
allow from all
Notice that you need to add in FollowSymLinks as an option for the Options ExecCGI section of your vhost.conf..
Conculsion
This should allow Plesk and mod_rewrite to play happily. These modifications appeared to work for my situation and I assume that they would work for other WordPress users. Please let me know if you have any comments, suggestions, success stores, etc. I hope your upgrade goes well! :)
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