v4 and v5 on the same machine

[Mike]

We want to set up a PHP server for instructors to teach PHP, but
different instructors have different needs. Is it possible to install
PHP 4.3.8 *and* PHP 5 on the same machine? Perhaps using different
ports or something to keep them separated? I have a Windows 2003
Server running IIS6.

Thanks.

[Sebastian Lauwers]

Mike wrote:

We want to set up a PHP server for instructors to teach PHP, but
different instructors have different needs. Is it possible to install
PHP 4.3.8 *and* PHP 5 on the same machine? Perhaps using different
ports or something to keep them separated? I have a Windows 2003
Server running IIS6.

Thanks.

I have php 4.3.8 and 5.0.0 running great on windows xp pro.
Although it's with Apache 2.0.50, this shouldn't be a big deal with ISS.

I've installed PHP4 as CGI and PHP5 as an apache module.

There are some tutorials out there that show how you can do it, never
searched for IIS though, but i'm sure some geek managed it.

If you need more info.

HTH,
Sebastian

[Chung Leong]

"Sebastian Lauwers" <da***********@nospam.9online.fr> wrote in message
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Mike wrote:

We want to set up a PHP server for instructors to teach PHP, but
different instructors have different needs. Is it possible to install
PHP 4.3.8 *and* PHP 5 on the same machine? Perhaps using different
ports or something to keep them separated? I have a Windows 2003
Server running IIS6.

Thanks.

I have php 4.3.8 and 5.0.0 running great on windows xp pro.
Although it's with Apache 2.0.50, this shouldn't be a big deal with ISS.

I've installed PHP4 as CGI and PHP5 as an apache module.

There are some tutorials out there that show how you can do it, never
searched for IIS though, but i'm sure some geek managed it.

If you need more info.

HTH,
Sebastian

On Apache 2 I managed to get both running as modules with the following:

LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll
LoadModule php5_module c:/php5/php5apache2.dll

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddHandler php-script .php5

..php5 files are handled by the PHP5 Apache handler, while .php are handled
by the PHP4 Apache filter (because php4_module is loaded first). Couldn't
get them to use different php.ini though. Even though PHP4 is running as a
filter, it still thinks the SAPI type is apache2handler.

Maybe the behavior is different on Linux. Anyone?

[Andrew Crowe]

Hi,

We want to set up a PHP server for instructors to teach PHP, but
different instructors have different needs. Is it possible to install
PHP 4.3.8 *and* PHP 5 on the same machine? Perhaps using different
ports or something to keep them separated? I have a Windows 2003
Server running IIS6.

Not sure if this will apply to you, but we've had PHP4 and 5 running on
multiple sites on our IIS5 server (different versions on different sites
tho, no one site had both), and we needed different php.ini files.

The easiest way of doing this I found was to hex edit php5ts.dll and
replace all instances of "php.ini" to "ph5.ini", thus allowing different
php.ini files to exist in the WINNT folder

Andrew

[Mike]

Thanks to everyone who responded. We have worked out our political
differences and decided to use PHP5 for everyone!

Andrew Crowe <an****@adaptivetechnologies.com> wrote in message news:<41**********************@news.easynet.co.uk> ...

Hi,

We want to set up a PHP server for instructors to teach PHP, but
different instructors have different needs. Is it possible to install
PHP 4.3.8 *and* PHP 5 on the same machine? Perhaps using different
ports or something to keep them separated? I have a Windows 2003
Server running IIS6.

Not sure if this will apply to you, but we've had PHP4 and 5 running on
multiple sites on our IIS5 server (different versions on different sites
tho, no one site had both), and we needed different php.ini files.

The easiest way of doing this I found was to hex edit php5ts.dll and
replace all instances of "php.ini" to "ph5.ini", thus allowing different
php.ini files to exist in the WINNT folder

Andrew

[Sebastian Lauwers]

Chung Leong wrote:

On Apache 2 I managed to get both running as modules with the following:

LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll
LoadModule php5_module c:/php5/php5apache2.dll

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddHandler php-script .php5

.php5 files are handled by the PHP5 Apache handler, while .php are handled
by the PHP4 Apache filter (because php4_module is loaded first). Couldn't
get them to use different php.ini though. Even though PHP4 is running as a
filter, it still thinks the SAPI type is apache2handler.

Maybe the behavior is different on Linux. Anyone?

If i'm not mistaking, it is possible to specify the php.ini when you
compile a module. Thus, you can have both php4 and php5 as modules
loaded. This isn't possible under MS-Win.
Sebastian

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