Comments on: PHP5 alongside PHP4 on ASO

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:37:14 +0000

I don’t think so. mod_* modules are loaded with Apache, you’d have to restart Apache every request to load a different PHP module.

If it could have been done, I think many hosts would have done it already.

By: ermau

ermau — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:32:18 +0000

I believe so, I don’t think anything has changed from that perspective. I mean, obviously the language is different, and the framework has changed (Zend Engine 2) but I think the problems are inherent to the way CGI works. I also could not have a clue.

In any event, if it’s possible to say.. add types and import modules through an .htaccess, couldn’t you just detect say a .php4 or .php5 extension and load the appropriate module? Or even do that detection straight in the httpd.conf?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:40:37 +0000

AFAIK, it’s not possible to run mod_php4 alongside mod_php5. The only option is to run it as CGI (or FastCGI, which is obviously a billion times better).

I was thinking of the same thing, though. But it might not be a problem. Are there the same kind of issues with PHP5 as CGI as there were with PHP4 and CGI?

By: ermau

ermau — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:39:42 +0000

:-O A roll indeed.

Cool trick, I’m not sure I’d want them running on the seperate platforms like that, but I suppose it’s good that there’s a way to do it now
You could probably find a way to do it through an .htaccess and use whichever method you like for both rather then splitting them up.