Specify location of PHP handler

Anon

I've been working on a little news script in PHP, and I've run into a seemingly insurmountable problem. You see, I wrote my program in PHP 4, which is all good and fine; however my friend wants to use it on his site. This poses a problem because the site is hosted by a commercial web host, and their (Apache) server defaults to PHP 3. However, they claim that they have PHP 4 installed at /usr/bin/php and I've been trying to figure out how I can specify to run my scripts with PHP 4. I've tried adding a .htaccess file, but it seems that they don't have the FileInfo override enabled. I've also tried making a simple .cgi file with the shebang specifying the location of php, but I either did that wrong, or it doesnt work either. (I dont really want to do that if there's any other way anyway, it's quite hackish...) So if anyone has any advice/comments please respond... 🙁
-Michael Coupland

djg_uk

Hi Michael,

Sounds obvious, but have you tried renaming the files to .php4? If PHP3 is the default for the .php or .phtml, etc. extensions then maybe this is an option.

Just use floor(phpversion()) which will return either 3 or 4.

Kind Regards,

David

Anon

Thanks for your suggestion, but unfortunatley I've tried that, I just forgot to mention it...
.php4 and .phtml files don't have any handler associated with them, and are just sent over as plain text.

Once again, thanks anyway.
-Michael Coupland

(The way I'm checking the version is with a simple phpinfo() script, I assume there's nothing wrong with that)