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[dolay]

Are you using the cPanel hosting accounts with PHP version 5.01+ ?

Please share your epxriences with us.

We are already offerring but to be honest we have ever had a time to test the functionality of PHP5 installed cPanel servers personally.

We did not recieve any complains from PHP5 customers and thoughting everything is okay but I am curious if there are any Fantastico included php applications may have some problems?

Also what are the problems with PHP5? Why we yet to see 5.01+ announced as a stable version?


Thank you,

[layer0]

Also what are the problems with PHP5?

None, PHP is PHP, and PHP says PHP 5 is stable therefore it is . a cPanel PHP install isn't necessarily less stable than a standard PHP install.

I personally run PHP 5.1.x for parsing .php5 scripts and PHP 4.4.x for parsing .php4 and .php scripts. Works great for me.

[inforassist]

I'm running php5 on my cpanel servers since version 5.1 if i'm not mistaken and sure, i had a couple problems with a few scripts, but nothing it coulnd be fixed prontly.
Therebefor i recomend it

[dolay]

so why cpanel still suggests PHP4.xx at the default installations?

[inforassist]

I guess its because many cpanel users dont have php knowlegde to path the scripts for php5 compatibility

[misterdanny]

php4 and php5 are not compatible with eachother, php4 has commands that php5 doesn't, php5 has commands that php4 doesnt

php5 is not backward compatible with php. thats why most providers still provider php4 primarly. (most scripts were built on php4 and companies have not made php5 versionf of them yet)

though no one seems to realise you can run php4 and 5 on the same server

[BaselineAce]

This is not a tutorial...

[dolay]

Originally Posted by misterdanny

php4 and php5 are not compatible with eachother, php4 has commands that php5 doesn't, php5 has commands that php4 doesnt

php5 is not backward compatible with php. thats why most providers still provider php4 primarly. (most scripts were built on php4 and companies have not made php5 versionf of them yet)

though no one seems to realise you can run php4 and 5 on the same server

Are there any instruction how to install php4 and php5 at the same server?

This is kinda weird to me. How the the server will thought the php applications need php4 and php5?

I think i need to discuss with our system administrators but they told me that PHP5 may screw the cpanel installed servers and even may result with a disaster after filling the server with accounts we may be have to deal with hundreds of broken cpanel accounts at a broken dual opteron server... some nightmare scenerios scaring me.

[layer0]

Originally Posted by dolay

Are there any instruction how to install php4 and php5 at the same server?

This is kinda weird to me. How the the server will thought the php applications need php4 and php5?

I think i need to discuss with our system administrators but they told me that PHP5 may screw the cpanel installed servers and even may result with a disaster after filling the server with accounts we may be have to deal with hundreds of broken cpanel accounts at a broken dual opteron server... some nightmare scenerios scaring me.

You can run php4 as an Apache module just like a normal setup. ".php" can be parsed as php4 so that is the 'default'.

Then you can install php5 as CGI and setup Apache to use php5 for parsing files labelled with the extension ".php5"

If certain users want their ".php" to be parsed as PHP they can actually put a .htaccess file into the directory that needs that. I'm sure if you look that up you can find what you need to stick into the .htaccess.

Btw, I am not really sure how experienced your sysadmins are if they said that. PHP 5 won't screw *ANYTHING* up, cPanel doesn't even rely on PHP for anything.

HTH

[misterdanny]

if your using apache for your server
http://www.howtoforge.com/apache2_with_php5_and_php4

[tweakservers]

tried php5 on 3 of our cpanel box with fantastico loaded, so far no complaints received.