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by Cheah Chu Yeow.
Original Post: Upgraded to PHP5 on Gentoo
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Yup I just upgraded from PHP4.3.8 to PHP5.0.1 on the Gentoo VPS hosting this weblog. It went rather smoothly, except for an oversight where I actually forgot to compile PHP with session support (and had to re-compile it). Just unmerge the existing PHP and mod_php packages, and emerge them again ...