[RESOLVED] Running dual versions of PHP4/5 - how to?

conjurer

I have both PHP 4.4.2 and 5.1.4 available through my hosting source. Apparently version 4 is the default interpreter and PHP 5 is used if it encounters a file with a php5 extension: i.e., thisfile.php5

My question is, how can I do this on my desktop machine that I use for development? I am running Windows XP Pro and Apache 2.0.54 on my home machine. What do you have to do to set up both versions of php and have it work like my hosting site does?

bradgrafelman

One is installed as an ISAPI filter, one is installed as a CGI binary.

I believe this has been covered on the board before, so you might try searching.

conjurer

Ok, what would you search under? Not sure what terms to put in the search.

Thanks

bradgrafelman

Search in the install forum for... hmm. "PHP 4 and 5" or "ISAPI module and CGI binary" or something along those lines.

Alternatively, you could just try to install it yourself. Just visit the [man]install.windows.apache2[/i] section of the manual and install the different versions of PHP as I described - one as an ISAPI filter and one as a CGI binary.

MarkR

Apache doesn't do ISAPI filters, but yes, you need to install one as an Apache module and the other as CGI.

Mark

bradgrafelman

Woops! Confusing my Apache terms with IIS... hehe. :o

Drakla

I run both locally by having a path that runs php 5 there on in, i.e. http://localhost/php5/

This is from my apache conf

# CGI

ScriptAlias /php4-cgi c:/winfiles/php/php.exe
ScriptAlias /php5-cgi c:/winfiles/php5/php-cgi.exe

# most scripts will be php 4

Action application/x-httpd-php /php4-cgi
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml

<Location /php5>
Action application/x-httpd-php /php5-cgi
</Location>

EDIT: just realised I completely skipped the asked question, which I seem to be getting really good at, so to simulate your hosting condition you could modify the above to be something along the lines of:

# CGI

ScriptAlias /php4-cgi c:/winfiles/php/php.exe
ScriptAlias /php5-cgi c:/winfiles/php5/php-cgi.exe

# most scripts will be php 4

Action application/x-httpd-php /php4-cgi
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml

    # oh php 5 with your aspirations to javahood, make my dinner

Action application/x-httpd-php5 /php5-cgi
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5

conjurer

Thanks Drakla - that looks doable. Not sure about the dinner part. But the rest seems to make sense. :-)