Apache with PHP5 and PHP4 simultaneously

[jacortijo]

Good morning,

it is being a nightmare to achieve to have running apache2 with PHP4 and PHP5 support.

I need to have several different php application and mainly all of them use PHP5 but I have an specific one in PHP4. I was googling a lot and found some solutions, the best I found is

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php4-php5-configuration.xml

but it is for Gentoo and unfortunally in my office we work with windows 2003.

I am lazy so I used XAMP and I got directly apache2 with PHP5 and PHP4. it provides to swith from one version to the other but I need both at the same time.

I tried using the following directives in the vhost file but apache seems to follow them at all.

this is my vhosts

<VirtualHost *:80>

    DocumentRoot E:/xampp/htdocs/

    ServerName localhost

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot E:/xampp/htdocs/Degas

ServerName drivers

ScriptAlias /php/ "E:/xampp/php/php4/"

Action application/x-httpd-php4 "/php/php.exe"

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php4 .php

 

<Directory "E:/xampp/php/php4/">

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride FileInfo

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

 

the enviroment is set up in PHP5. I create a info.php in both places and in both places shows up PHP 5.2.6

 

Anything I should do... somebody did it before?

is it impossible to achieve?

 

Many thanks in advance

Jose

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Except in a very few minor cases, php4 code works as is under php5, given the same php.ini configuration - http://us.php.net/manual/en/migration5.incompatible.php

 

Have you tested your php4 code under php5? Even if it does not work, the changes necessary to get it to work are minor and straightforward.

[jacortijo]

Thanks for the fast reply.

I cannot do any modification to the program. I can only request to the developer in our headquarters to migrate to PHP5, but I dont know where he will put my request in his to-do-list.

 

that is why I try to setup apache to work with both versions at once.

 

regards!

J