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Not in a position to test this but some google'ing pulls this up:
http://www.zulius.com/how-to/yum-install-specific-package-version/
Does that help?
Yes, there are a way.
1. Download source from php.net
2. Configure it
3. Compile
4. Install
And you'll have an out-of-date, unmaintained and vulnerable PHP environment. All you need then is a two-year-old copy of Wordpress
Give this a try, should work,
http://www.webtatic.com/packages/php53/
It should get you the latest version which exists in their repo, not sure if you'll get php version 5.3 as i'm sure it must have been updated since that blog post was made on that site.
Edit : Why PHP version 5.1 ? That's so old !
All you need is to be 1 revision out for hell to surface, php compiled from source is fine, the sky is not falling.
But quick google search http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en shows adding REMI repo will provide php 5.3 rpm's
http://www.webtatic.com/packages/php53/
He wants PHP 5.1 on CentOS 6, not PHP 5.3 on CentOS 5.x.
Guess we differ on this. I don't think PHP 5.1 compiled from source is fine...
@sleddog : I think the repo will pick up the latest php for that OS version.
Which is not PHP 5.1. Which is what the OP wants.
@sleddog : Hmm.. I know.. but just wanted to suggest a newer version which would help.. anyway..
EDIT : Thanks to the OP, this reminded me to update PHP installed on my VPS
I prefer php 5.3 but Zend Optimizer does not support php 5.3 which is required on new server as some sites are using zend encoded scripts. I think I will go with OS realod. thanks everybody for help
@glober, use zend guard
@qenox, tried that did not worked on CentOs. I think I will better off with CentOS 5.7 for now.
@glober : CentOS 5.7 should be good, as a yum install php, installs php version 5.1.x
Don't enable any external repos, keep the ones which come with CentOS itself
@glober, what exactly didn't work? I'm pretty sure we have it running on CentOS 6.1 with php 5.3.
@qenox I must admit that I did not take zend guard seriously before but I tried it now and its working fine.
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Nov 3 2011 12:00:26)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
with Zend Guard Loader v3.3, Copyright (c) 1998-2010, by Zend Technologies
You are meant to use Zend Guard Loader for php5.3, however I could never manage to get it working with the script I was using.
Actually for wordpress 3.2 and above, they now require php 5.2.4 and above:
http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
It's never a good idea to run an older version of PHP, especially that old... No matter what.