Shared Server cPanel and PHP Upgrades

[JPC-Masood]

We are starting another round of server upgrades that brings in a lot of new exciting and long awaited features to our shared hosting clients. We have prepared two KB articles to summarise these:

PHP Upgrade
What is suPHP? What is being changed from phpsuexec to suPHP? How to use php4 or php5 on JaguarPC shared server?

http://www.jaguarpc.com/support/kbase/817.html

cPanel Upgrade
What new features are coming in with new cPanel Theme for JaguarPC shared clients?

http://www.jaguarpc.com/support/kbase/818.html

Please review them and if you have any questions, problems, feedback, you can post them on feedback thread.

Currently there are no known issues with these upgrades, so we will try to complete these upgrades as quickly as possible. Please note that the webserver may go down or give "internet server error" temporarily during upgrade, which can take between 5~15 minutes.

Bulk Reseller servers will get PHP upgrade. They already have the x3 theme they can enjoy with all the features.

Update (Jan 28): We faced one issue during the upgrades from phpsuexec to suphp, however we have prepared the fix for it. The issue is that cpanel changes mime type and removes php5 AddHandler when we setup php4 as default one. That was not very nice. To keep user's .htaccess away from that killer script of cpanel, all one needs is to have a marker comment before the AddHandler. We will add that marker comment to all users's .htaccess before the upgrade wherever php5 is setup so it does not disturb your php settings.

The change is that to activate php5, one needed to add this directive in .htaccess:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php .php4 .php3 .phtml

To keep this intact, now we need to use a marker comment like this:

# Use PHP5 as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php .php4 .php3 .phtml

Our script will not add this marker comment again if already present in your .htaccess

Note: If you are going to use php5 for the first time, you can just activate it for your entire account from cpanel (upgraded servers).

Update (Jan 30):
We used to provide webdav by request (although it was not a feature of cpanel). This is no more supported in new system. Those with webdav folders can create webdisk from their control panel after the upgrade.

Current Schedule of Upgrades (may change without any notice)

Jan 29: scorpius, smaug, trinculo, tyranus, wolverine, cressida, demetrius, enterprise, faramir, gamma (upgrade completed)

Jan 30: hoth, jupiter, luna, manticore, proteus, samwise, thracian, adonis, adrastea, alatar (upgrade completed)

Jan 31: antares, antilles, aquarius, atlas, aurora2, callisto, carme, chamaeleon, deimos, demeter (upgrade completed)

Feb 1: diamond, dione, dragon2, elara, gandalf, ganymede, geonosis, gibson, helios, hermes (upgrade completed)

Feb 4: iota, intrepid, janus, kalyke, komodo, libra, metis, ninja, nyx, odyssey (upgrade completed)

Feb 5: olympia, oracle, phoebe, poseidon, positron, praxeum, prospero, rancor, rhea, rohirrim (upgrade completed)

Feb 6: samus, saturn, sinope, spartan, spider, stallion, sycorax, yodha (upgrade completed)

[JPC-Masood]

These three servers already have the upgrades applied: Nova, Preeto, Miranda and Delphi

The following 5 servers will be upgraded on Friday, 25th January, 2008.

Hero (php5 by default), Argus, Casper, Dagobah and Dionysus.

We will continue to perform these upgrades on daily basis on more servers by announcing here, and if there are any issues found, we will update everyone and slow down to fix them first. If no known issues are found, the upgrades will speed up.

[JPC-Masood]

All 5 servers were upgraded successfully: Hero (php5 by default), Argus, Casper, Dagobah and Dionysus.

We will continue the upgrades today. The next 5 servers to upgrade are: dooku, eowyn, ewok, fender, hammerhead. Update: these were upgraded successfully.

[JPC-Masood]

Following 5 servers are scheduled for upgrade today: gold, hedwig, helene, kang, kenobi

[JPC-Masood]

The above 5 servers were upgraded successfully.

The next 4 servers for upgrade today are: kraken, neon, pandora, ruby.

Update: These 4 servers have been upgraded as well.

[JPC-Masood]

These 10 servers have been upgraded successfully:

scorpius, smaug, trinculo, tyranus, wolverine, cressida, demetrius, enterprise, faramir, gamma

[JPC-Masood]

These 10 servers have been upgraded successfully today:

hoth, jupiter, luna, manticore, proteus, samwise, thracian, adonis, adrastea, alatar

[JPC-Masood]

The following 10 servers have been upgraded successfully today:

antares, antilles, aquarius, atlas, aurora2, callisto, carme, chamaeleon, deimos, demeter

[JPC-Masood]

The following 10 servers have been upgraded successfully today:

diamond, dione, dragon2, elara, gandalf, ganymede, geonosis, gibson, helios, hermes

[JPC-Masood]

The following 10 servers have been upgraded today:

iota, intrepid, janus, kalyke, komodo, libra, metis, ninja, nyx, odyssey

[JPC-Masood]

The following 10 servers have been upgraded today:

olympia, oracle, phoebe, poseidon, positron, praxeum, prospero, rancor, rhea, rohirrim

[JPC-Masood]

Following 8 servers have been upgraded today:

samus, saturn, sinope, spartan, spider, stallion, sycorax, yodha

This completes the upgrade on all JaguarPC Shared/SDX/Bulk Reseller servers.