Debian 8/9 included PHP Versions EOL on 12/2018 - Nextcloud requires PHP7

AnotherAndy

but what helps survy.org if kopano will not support it?
@Kopano Team - could you please give us a look for the future?

fbartels

you have already stated our general position in your opening topic:

@anotherandy said in Debian 8/9 included PHP Versions EOL on 12/2018 - Nextcloud requires PHP7:

I remember some other posts where I read “we only support the OS build in php version”

If you want to use PHP 7.2 then the general recommendation is to move to a distribution that supports it out of the box (Ubuntu 18.04 would be one of those). Alternatively the Docker/Containerisation approach is popular as well.

@anotherandy said in Debian 8/9 included PHP Versions EOL on 12/2018 - Nextcloud requires PHP7:

but what helps survy.org if kopano will not support it?

Its just that we don’t support it with our packages. One could take the source code of php-mapi and compile a version compatible with it.

AnotherAndy

Hi Felix,
thanks for the confirmation.
I will check out a Docker solution than.

best regards
Andreas

fbartels

@AnotherAndy if your vps does not support docker this may be interesting. For my private sytems I am using Netcup (reflink) for a while now. They are not really expensive and you can even install servers from iso images.

PS: they even offer discount codes for virtual servers. If you want one let me know.

mcostan

@anotherandy

I am old fashioned, I have a physical box running Linux with VirtualBox on it and I run all the virtual machines there. Works fantastically well. And doesn’t cost anything other than the electricity.

AnotherAndy

hi @fbartels ,
thanks - I think Netcup will be my future Hoster :-) - I am already in contact with my current hoster, when I can end the contract.
If I choose Netcup I’ll send you a private message.
@mcostan - yeah a root server is also pretty good - but too powerfull for me. currently i only need 2 GB of RAM and 2 CPUs.
thanks a lot for your help and suggests.
best regards
Andreas

jengelh

Possible - but no good idea, because in Debian 9 (https://wiki.debian.org/PHP)
only PHP 7.00 is included - which is also EOL at the end of the year.

But D9 will keep PHP7.0 alive for as long as it’s needed (until D10 has a reasonable foot, i.e. 2020).

fbartels

@jengelh said in Debian 8/9 included PHP Versions EOL on 12/2018 - Nextcloud requires PHP7:

But D9 will keep PHP7.0 alive

that is of course true as well

mcostan

@jengelh

Question, how about running Kopano on a virtual machine (or server) and the cloud on another one? This way you have no coupling between the two.

That’s what I do.

fbartels

@mcostan that is of course the obvious answer. depending on your user load I would even go as far to recommend to always run kopano on a dedicated machine.

marcus.bauch

…hmm. I think Debian support PHP7.2 in the Buster-Release.

https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=buster&keywords=php7.2

And…yes. You should split your Web-Services from Kopano (core) to different Servers.

thctlo

Even better,

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=kopano
so dont worry the Debian devs will keep this going.