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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:25:32 -0500 (CDT)
To: "Tijnema" <tijnema@gmail.com>
Cc: jani.taskinen@iki.fi,
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Apache handler with Multiple PHP versions
From: ceo@l-i-e.com ("Richard Lynch")

On Wed, July 11, 2007 6:13 pm, Tijnema wrote:
> On 7/12/07, Jani Taskinen <jani.taskinen@sci.fi> wrote:
>> A lot easier (and works already) is to install PHP as CGI/FastCGI
>> (one version or all of them, one can be module of course) and define
>> the
>> required PHP version by the file suffix..
>>
>> --Jani
>
> Hello Jani:
>
> I know this is possible, and I believe it is possible in Apache too
> with some kind of hack?
> But this still doesn't solve a lot of problems, but will generate a
> lot more with portable code. Take a bulletin board for example, there
> are a lot of files inside a board, and when you want to install that
> on your host that has PHP5 for files with .php5, you need to rename a
> hell lot of files to .php5, AND change code inside the .php5 files to
> point to the renamed files.

No, you add a <Directory> config in httpd.conf or add to .htaccess a
line like
<Files ~.php>
  ForceType whatever/gets/you/to/php-5
</Files>

Other problems:

Getting 2 PHP modules to co-exist without tromping on each others'
symbols is, I think, the show-stopper...

It was possible to have PHP3 and PHP4 both as modules, I think, but
that was an anomoly?

You also would have to re-think what happens when a version is
requested that isn't installed at all...

You currently have it just run in the default version, I think, but is
that really useful?  If the code really NEEDS PHP 5, and the server
doesn't have 5, only 4, running the code that needs 5 is probably not
the right action...

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