Re: Migration of mysql 3.23.32 from Tru64 to RHEL 5.1

[Joerg Bruehe]

Hi Tom, all,


Swigg, Tom C wrote:
> 
> I have been given the task of migrating some 200+ web sites fom Tru64
> UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 64 bit V5.1
> 
> Many of these sites use PHP3 (3.0.18) and mysql 3.23.32 and the
> developers have long gone...
> 
> The objective is to provide a 3.23.32 environment on RHEL 5.1 which
> will run in parallel with the native mysql 5.0.22.

IMO, the main problem is that these sources are very old and were not 
written (or checked) to work with current compilers.

I have absolutely no experience with PHP, but I still think it might be 
easier to use current software versions and get rid of those old ones.

> 
> [[...]]
> 
> I have to do something similar for legacy php 4.2.3 again linked with
> mysql 3.23.32.
> We do not have the resources to migrate the code to mysql 5 and php 5
> so building a mysql3/4 environment on RHEL 5.1 is essential.
> Any help gratefully received.

I know that migrating to MySQL 5 and PHP 5 would need quite some 
resources, but I also think that adapting those old sources for current 
compilers might need a similar amount of resources.

I do not think your current approach will take less effort than the 
migration to current versions.
Consider that the information about your old versions is phasing out 
too, so staying with these versions would lead into a dead row.


Regards,
Jörg

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