Topic: right migration path PHP

[pedro]

Hello there,

This may not be a new subject, I read many topics on this site, all good information but my point is a bit more specific. I hope some of you will have advices.

I have a running Win 2008R2 SP1 64 bits server with
Apache 2.2.17, 64 bits, VC9
PHP 5.3.4, VC9, x64, TS and all extension VC9/TS as well
I know PHP 5.3.x 64 bits is not officially supported, but I followed many doing the same... badly.

I now get frequent Apache process restart with message : child process exited with status 3221225477
and event log is: Faulting module name: php5ts.dll, version: 5.3.4.0, time stamp: 0x4d0904d8 Exception code: 0xc0000005.
So this is an Access Violation.

I assume this is due to a library bug/incompatible builds (we make heavy use of mysql, pcre, json...).
PHP code/Core, afaik, could not create such a violation (right ?).

So I need to migrate my configuration to a more stable one. As this is a running server/site I need a short path too. I also need to keep all the PHP, Mysql and Apache settings I have.

My first option is to migrate to a more recent PHP version, still 64 (e.g. 5.3.22 69b VC9 builds can be found) but am I facing the same risk of bugs ?

Then I would need to migrate either to Apache32/PHP32 or to Fcgid 64/PHP 32 .

From experience what is the simplest/safest migration path and how to apply (manually, installers).
The target configuration performance is also of importance.

thanks, I'm a bit lost.
best,
P.

[pedro]

FYI and those having similar problems, an upgrade to 5.3.22 VC9 TS 64bits did solve my problem. For now...