Posted by John Murtari on 04/06/07 12:40

Schraalhans Keukenmeester <bitbucket@invalid.spam> writes:
>>>> We would like to upgrade our servers to PHP 5 and PHP 4
>>>> together as modules on the same server (not as cgi, not passing
>>>> requests to another server). I did some extensive searching on
>>>> this and we ran some tests over a year ago and did not find a
>>>> solution (other than proxy forwarding to a PHP 5 configured server).
>>>>
>>>> When PHP went to version 4 from version 3, it was possible
>>>> to run both at the same time, and have users select by file
>>>> extension, i.e. .php4,.php5. It seems a naming conflict within
>>>> the code itself prevents that from working with PHP 5. Has anyone
>>>> discovered a way to do this?
>>>>
>>>> We are running apache 1.3.x on RHEL 4.

> Link is a bit dated, so your mileage may vary, but here goes:
> http://www.digitalsandwich.com/archives/14-PHP5-and-PHP4-Running-on-SAME-apache-server.html


Yes, thanks for that. It has some of the best information
I have found (I was suprised to see I had posted to the thread
years ago). It does seem that it just isn't possible and keep
'normal' functionality. I checked the php.net bug tracker and
saw a request posted on this, the response was 'will not happen.'

Not sure what the problem is, maybe a basic coding
problem when 5 was created -- but I really do think it is
slowing adoption of 5. We are a hosting provider, and it just
makes it more difficult for us to transition and get our users
to transition. Perhaps folks who are interested should submit
some bug reeports at php.net?
--
John
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