Upgrading from PHP4 to PHP5 (Joomla) after changing host to WHB

[govanmac]

Hi

I have just come back to WHB. One of my Joomla sites is running PHP4, it will not work at WHB because the server only has PHP4 as an option.
When you try to access the page an option comes up asking you to choose a program to open it, which is not much good.
I contacted WHB support, but they have just left me to my own devices.

Does anyone know how to upgrade this?

[Alan B]

PHP5 and PHP4 are both available on WHB servers. You can already choose to use PHP5 if you want. You can write all new scripts for PHP5, while old scripts can either be rewritten to use PHP5 or left to continue using default PHP4.

On the servers that have PHP4 as default, there are several ways to get your scripts to run using PHP5. Here are two methods:

1. Create an .htaccess file in the script's root folder, containing this line:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php .php4 .php3 .phtml

or

2. Use the PHP Configuration function in cPanel to select PHP5.

[govanmac]

Hi Alan

Thanks for your reply.
I got on to WHB earlier, and they came back with this message:
'.htaccess' configuration file under the directory '/home/ibexdes2/public_html' contains the option that determines the usage of PHP4 for all PHP scripts under that directory. But there is no PHP4 installed on the server your accounts are hosted on but PHP5 only. You should remove that option from '.htaccess' file and in case of necessity update your scripts to make them fully compatible with PHP5 standards.

I deleted that, but it still gives the same problem, I also tried adding the line you gave me, but still nothing.

I had a look in cPanel, but I can't see an option to select PHP5 in there.

John

[Alan B]

If you accurately quoted what WHB Support said:

there is no PHP4 installed on the server ... but PHP5 only

then there is only PHP5 on your server. In that case you shouldn't need to select PHP5, as anything with the .php extension should be processed by PHP5.

Maybe the problem is that your Joomla site needs to be upgraded to be able to use PHP5.