Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/20/00 11:24

Richard Lynch wrote:
> On Wed, August 17, 2005 2:05 am, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>>On 8/15/05, Miles Thompson <miles@allnovascotia.com> wrote:
>>
>>>The problem with PHP 5 is that the ISP's have to be so conservative.
>>>There's no tagging mechanism which says "process these files with
>>>PHP5, use
>>>PHP 4 for everything else."
>>>
>>
>>Does anyone here remember that on php 3 the file extensions were
>>.php3? That made moving to php4 easy- files ending in .php3 was parsed
>>as 3, and files ending in .php were parsed as 4. Why not do something
>>similar when moving to 5 or 6?
>
>
> The .php3 extension was more of a pain in the ass than it saved...
>
> It was also possible to compile PHP3 and PHP4 in the same Apache - I
> do not think you can do that with 4/5.
>
> However, Rasmus posted a lovely explanation in this forum for EXACTLY
> how to have both 4 & 5 running on the same box.
>
> Search for "Rasmus Lerdorf" and "proxy server" and it should come up.
>
> Maybe like 3 or 4 months ago?

actually he posted (an update?) a full on explanation (again!) just 5 days
ago (on the 14th August 2005) on how to do it in reply to this thread!

and he makes it sound so easy :-)

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