PHP5 is now available on all servers!

[Dotable Steve]

Dear Clients,

As promised, we have now installed php5 onto all of our servers.
PHP5 and PHP4 are running concurrently on each server.

They are both installed as apache modules (mod_php5 + mod_php4).
Having both versions of php available as modules, rather than running 1 of them as a CGI, is better as your existing scripts and permissions will need no modification, in order to run under php4 or php5.

All you have to do to run existing or new scripts via php5 is either place a .htaccess file within the directory that you want to run php5, with the following within it.

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php

OR

You can also name a file with a .php5 extension (no .htaccess modification required), so that you can run both versions of php within 1 directory if you wanted to

You are able to place a .htaccess file within any directory and run different versions of php, all within the same site.
Of course a .htaccess file placed within your public_html directory, will enable you to run php5 scripts anywhere on your site, you don't have to place a .htaccess file within every directory.

You can also use 'php_value' directives within your .htaccess files as well, just like you can with php4. The syntax is just slightly different.
You would use

php5_value rather than php_value if you run php5 within that directory.

You can see your servers php configuration via

Mercury
PHP4 - http://mercury.dotable.com/phpinfo.php
PHP5 - http://mercury.dotable.com/phpinfo.php5

Venus
PHP4 - http://venus.dotable.com/phpinfo.php
PHP5 - http://venus.dotable.com/phpinfo.php5

Earth
PHP4 - http://earth.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php
PHP5 - http://earth.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php5

Mars
PHP4 - http://mars.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php
PHP5 - http://mars.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php5

Jupiter
PHP4 - http://jupiter.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php
PHP5 - http://jupiter.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php5

Saturn
PHP4 - http://saturn.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php
PHP5 - http://saturn.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php5

Neptune
PHP4 - http://neptune.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php
PHP5 - http://neptune.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php5

Pluto
PHP4 - http://pluto.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php
PHP5 - http://pluto.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php5

Voyager
PHP4 - http://voyager.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php
PHP5 - http://voyager.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php5

Kangaroo
PHP4 - http://kangaroo.dotauserver.com/phpinfo.php
PHP5 - http://kangaroo.dotauserver.com/phpinfo.php5

Enterprise
PHP4 - http://enterprise.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php
PHP5 - http://enterprise.dotcolo.com/phpinfo.php5

Bob and I hope that you enjoy working with php5 as well as php4 on your Dotable accounts.

[mylinear]

Thank you for the addition of PHP5.

Was PHP4 running as CGI or Apache module prior to this update?

[dericknwq]

Sweeeet.. Awhile ago, you were just introduced and now you got PHP5 running on the servers.. Just how fast do you work?

A little off track: could you get Mercury and Venus to be ".dotcolo.com" as well? It have been on Bob's whiteboard for some time..

[Klian]

Thanks for this addon

[P-nut]

This is great! I have a few scripts I was going to have to get another account somewhere for as they run php5.

Now there are no worries about it!

Thanks, Bob and Steve!

[Aussie Bob]

Originally Posted by P-nut

Now there are no worries about it!

[Dotable Steve]

mylinear, php4 has always been mod_php4 (module) nothing has been changed at all there.

dericknq - I will discuss that with Bob regarding the server names.

I hope you all enjoy using php5

[Josh]

[Punjabi]

that was fast

Somebody sometime mentioned windows



Cheers!
Punjabi

[Dotable Steve]

Somebody sometime mentioned windows

Indeed, I'm a big fan of .NET2 as well these days, so it won't be too far away.