In order to upgrade PHP 5 to the needed version (if you would like to
have other than shipped with Parallels Plesk) please perform the
following steps:
Applies to:
- Plesk 8.x for Windows
- Plesk 9.x for Windows
- Plesk 10.x for Windows
- Stop Plesk services (‘Control Panel’ and all that are included in the ‘Plesk Run-Time’ section)
- Rename folder %plesk_dir%\Additional\PleskPHP5 to the orig_PleskPHP5
- Create a new folder %plesk_dir%\Additional\PleskPHP5
- Download needed version of PHP, unzi! p its content,
http://windows.php.net/download/
and copy it to the newly created folder PleskPHP5
- Copy the file php.ini from old folder orig_PleskPHP5 to the new one
- Make sure the permissions are inherited
- Start Plesk services
- Click "Refresh" button in Components Management section in
Parallels Plesk
Home>Settings>Server Components>
Panel and check if you can see the new PHP version
there
You need to be aware that PHP versions other than shipped with Parallels Plesk Panel were not tested.