Its really hard to compiling php on plesk servers, that too for newbies. I have been searching for PHP 4.4.7 source rpm or ready solution or a script so that I can quickly give it to my team to resolve such requests coming from our customers.
By chance I found it on Hans Rackers DazeWorld blog space.This php-4.4.7 source rpm is found to be magic.
Remove all the existing php rpms which are on your box. Don’t worry you just have to take the backup of /etc/php.ini. Ignore all dependencies no worries.
Once you’re done with it, download and build the source rpm as follows.
rpmbuild –rebuild php-4.4.7-1.hrak.src.rpm
This will compile php for your box and build the rpms required. You will find all the rpms required for your system in /usr/src/redhati386 folder.
Go ahead and install them all
rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/i386/php-*.rpm
restart apache and psa from /etc/init.d . Your plesk box will have latest PHP 4.4.7