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Because Red Hatters are PHPers, too PHP is everywhere, including at Red Hat. Red Hat offers a number of options to deploy PHP and get it up and running quickly. As a PHP developer, you'll find plenty of options to keep you happy with our support of PHP applications on both physical servers and in the cloud. Read on to learn how we support PHP in Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® , and how you can get your applications up and...

We recently hosted and recorded a webinar that talks to the latest for Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL) 1.1 available for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL) delivers the latest, stable versions of dynamic languages, open source databases, and web development tools, all with a faster release cadence (to keep up with the upstream) and supported for 3 years. The new additions in Red Hat Software Collections 1.1 are: 2 new open source...

Second installment of Red Hat Software Collections delivers comprehensive suite of dynamic languages, open source databases and web development tools Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat Software Collections 1.1, the second iteration of Red Hat’s comprehensive suite of powerful web development tools, dynamic languages and open source databases. Delivered on a separate life cycle from Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a more frequent release cadence, Red Hat Software Collections puts the latest stable open source runtime...

Another excellent OpenShift Enterprise update with more examples of Red Hat Software Collections being converted into OpenShift cartridges: MySQL 5.5 and PHP 5.4, and soon the additions of Python 3.3 and MongoDB 2.4. Also, I love the "simple, no touch virtual machine (VM) image of OpenShift Enterprise so [customers] can place the image on their laptop and work on cartridges, code, and DevOps models while they are disconnected from their datacenter. As part of your OpenShift Enterprise subscription, we have...

RHSCL 1.1 Beta is available and provides Apache httpd 2.4, PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5. The most common configuration for Apache and PHP uses mod_php , but this only allows a single PHP version. Apache httpd 2.4 introduces mod_proxy_fgci which can simply redirect requests to a php-fpm backend. This article shows a simple way to use a single Apache server and simultaneously run 3 versions of PHP (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5). The same site will be served through 3 sub-URL...

This is now generally available . BRIDGING DEVELOPER AGILITY WITH PRODUCTION STABILITY. This is what we do. Today, we are pleased to announce the beta availability of Red Hat Software Collections 1.1, the second installment of Red Hat Software Collections which was launched in October 2013. Red Hat Software Collections delivers a comprehensive suite of runtime languages, open source databases, and related tools helping developers and systems administrators accelerate the creation of stable, modern web applications. Based on your wish...

The OpenShift Online release for January 2014 has some great additions! Read the whole article here , but read about these cartridge updates: "We've updated some of our most popular cartridges to newer versions. Plus, we'll have more coming very soon. PHP 5.4 MySQL 5.5 Python 3.3 Zend Server 6.1 with PHP 5.4 " Each of these technology cartridge updates are provided by Red Hat Software Collections--fully maintained and supported by Red Hat. "

One thing I love about this blog site is the variety of developer-related topics - all created by the experts themselves! So, in case you missed any, here are the top 12 blog posting for 2013: 1. Setting up Django and Python 2.7 on Red Hat Enterprise 6 the easy way - This was the most popular article, by our developer evangelist, Langdon White . Great job, dude! 2. Released! Red Hat Software Collections now GA! - And here's the...

[EDITOR's Note: This article introduces V1.0 of Red Hat Software Collections, but we are now at 2.0. Read about the latest here .] We've had so much interest in Red Hat Software Collections during beta testing and now here they are! Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Software Collections 1.0! "Available via select Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions, Red Hat Software Collections delivers the newest, most stable versions of open source runtime components to subscribers on...

A couple of months ago, Red Hat announced the beta 1 phases of both Red Hat Developer Toolset V2.0 and Red Hat Software Collections V1.0 . Now, they are both in a beta 2 phase! Be sure to take a look at these tools if you haven't already - we've receive a huge amount of interest in them! Both offerings provide recent, stable versions of technologies that you've been asking for. At a high level, Developer Toolset is for gcc...

As I discussed in an article entitled Red Enterprise Linux Release Speed , developers sometimes have a problem with how slow Red Hat's Enterprise Linux releases new versions of software. Well, the good news is, Software Collections are here. Software Collections provide Red Hat Enterprise Linux users with newer versions of programming languages and server daemons like python, perl, ruby, php, mysql, mariadb, etc. This is a quick start guide to help you get comfortable with both programming languages and...

In order to test out the new Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL, announcement ) version of PHP 5.4, I decided to build out a Drupal 7 install using the php54 collection and the mysql55 collection. Overall, the activity was pretty much like a normal Drupal install. However, to use software collections you have to do a few things differently. Also, if you haven't used a software collection for a "service" (e.g. MySQL) before, the service setup is also a little...

Official announcement : Red Hat Software Collections 1.0 Beta Now Available More information on Software Collections Software Collections Guide Stability addicts can keep quiet, PHP 5.3.3 is still the standard version provided with RHEL-6. We'll soon have an official and supported way to install PHP version 5.4 , beside the system version, without any effect on installed components. The announcement tells us the life cycle will be 3 years. Warning : it's a beta version, published for evaluation purposes. Installation...

You may have seen references to " software collections " in this blog, but this is different. "Red Hat Software Collections", now in beta for the first time, is a collection of refreshed and supported web/dynamic languages and databases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Now you can have two versions of software on one OS, or refresh these languages and databases more frequently. See this list below! From the announcement: "Red Hat is pleased to announce the Beta release of...