How to "activate" PHP 5.3

I've created a new Static/CGI/PHP-5.3 app, cloned an existing GitHub repo, and I'm wondering if I need to do something special to make the app use PHP 5.3. When I output phpinfo() it says that it's using 5.2.17.

Thanks in advance.

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asked Jan 24 '12 at 23:15

tdavis
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Are you testing on the command-line or by making a page containing phpinfo() inside the app?

(Jan 24 '12 at 23:30) neeravk ♦♦

Making a page containing phpinfo.

(Jan 25 '12 at 08:02) tdavis

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You can enable PHP 5.3 on your application by adding the following lines to your .htaccess file:

1 2	Action php53-cgi /php53.cgi AddHandler php53-cgi .php

Then you need to create a symbolic link in the application directory to the php53.cgi, here is how:

1 2	cd webapps/YOUR_APPLICATION ln -s /home/php-cgi/php53.cgi php53.cgi

answered Jan 25 '12 at 08:18

timg ♦♦
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edited Jan 28 '12 at 19:54

seanf ♦♦
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Great, thanks! It looks like it worked without creating the symbolic link. Why isn't this in the documentation somewhere?

(Jan 25 '12 at 20:00) tdavis

This should already have been done for you when you created a PHP 5.3 app from the panel. The instructions above are for updating a PHP 5.2 app to PHP 5.3 one on our older servers.

(Jan 25 '12 at 20:04) neeravk ♦♦

Hmm, but this was a brand new 5.3 app that I created.

(Jan 25 '12 at 20:53) tdavis

Ah, i see what happened. When I cloned my existing repo, it overwrote the .htaccess file that was automatically generated with the PHP 5.3 fix in it. Thanks for the help everyone!

(Jan 25 '12 at 22:38) tdavis

I have a PHP5.2 app setup on my account, and would like to switch to PHP 5.3. I've used the directions above without success. Any pointers or additional steps required? I'm on web159.

(Feb 14 '12 at 15:35) Jonathan Head

These instructions were for an existing Static/CGI/PHP-5.3 application. If you have a Static/CGI/PHP-5.2 application which needs to run on PHP 5.3, there are two ways to do this:

First, you could add the following to your .htaccess file:

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<FilesMatch \.php$> 
    SetHandler php53-fcgi
</FilesMatch>

(note that this will run the site as fastCGI)

Second (if you don't want fastCGI), you could simply create a new symlink-to-static/cgi/php53 application with the extra_info pointing at the ~/webapps/the_php52_app directory and then mount your site on this symlink application.

(Feb 15 '12 at 03:01) ryans ♦♦

Thanks, Ryan. Appreciate the info.

(Feb 15 '12 at 22:24) Jonathan Head

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The answer by timg did not work for me. What did work, was the following snippet (without any symlinks):

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<FilesMatch \.php$>
    SetHandler php53-cgi
</FilesMatch>

Here's more information about the PHP setup at Webfaction: http://blog.webfaction.com/2012/02/a-look-at-our-php-setup/

answered Jul 31 '12 at 14:41

dbrgn
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That worked perfectly. Thanks :)

(Sep 15 '12 at 04:04) yitwail

I tried adding <filesmatch klzzwxh:0000php$=""> SetHandler php53-cgi </filesmatch> to my .htaccess file found in my Wordpress app folder /webapp/my_app but it doesn't work for me. Where exactly within my .htaccess file should I add it? After #Begin Wordpress, before it or after #End Wordpress or before it?

answered Nov 19 '12 at 10:50

Dhawal
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FilesMatch uses a regular expression to match a filename. What type of filename are you trying to match with "klzzwxh:0000php$="""?

(Nov 19 '12 at 11:24) seanf ♦♦

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