php config

[iain2_uk]

One of my customers has their main web site hosting requiring php4 (which it is running at the mo), however she needs a subdomain to run php5.

I have both versions of php installed on the server, so can you please tell me how to force the subdomain to use the other version of php?

Cheers

[DPS Computing]

I'm no expert but as far as I understood it you couldn't only have one version of PHP running on one account / subdomain.

I'd be interested to learn if there is a way to do this as well, would definitely be useful for testing but I didnt think it was possible

[Daniel]

I've had this issue time and time again. Only one version of PHP can be installed on a standalone server, from what I've been told. Which is why large webhosting companies have seperate servers for different versions of PHP / MYSQL etc etc

[DPS Computing]

Thats what I was thinking. Basically you'd need two shared accounts on two servers running different PHP versions. Whatever type of account your on they would need to be based on two servers with the two different PHP versions.

I thought I was right - thanks for the clarification Daniel .

[WelshTom]

Yeh, if you somehow did have two installations of PHP, you'd also need to installations of HTTP which is simply not possible.

[DPS Computing]

Originally Posted by WelshTom

Yeh, if you somehow did have two installations of PHP, you'd also need to installations of HTTP which is simply not possible.

Woot, gold star for me .

[iain2_uk]

Well a bit of googleing sorted it...

I already had php4 and 5 running on the same server (definitely possible)

With php4 being the default, I then added a new handler in the relevant .htaccess file to make the subdomain use php5, and all is well

[Daniel]

It's possible to run both, but HTTP I can't see how you would run both unless you changed the port to the second HTTP to something different.

[DPS Computing]

Yer, it does sound extremely experimental and unstable - not something I imagine is recommend in a live environment. Maybe for testing, but if its working for you at the moment....

[iain2_uk]

Running php4 and 5 together is supported under cpanel, it is part of the easy apache options

The only query was how to select which handler to use

[DPS Computing]

Name what you want to run in PHP4 with the ".php4" extension and what you want to run in PHP5 with the ".php5" extension.

So in your case name everything on your subdomain with the ".php5" extension and everything else with the ".php4" extension.

From what I read this is a new thing in WHM / cPanel and is highly experimental but if you want to give it a go It'll be interesting to see you get it up and running .