Re[2]: [PHP] Obsession with BC, take 2

Hi, Friday, October 14, 2005, 1:07:04 AM, you wrote: > Let me get it straight. There are two ways of running PHP four and > five on one server. First one is by using five's compatibility mode, > and it breaks some of the old scripts. The second one is by using > two different apache modules. It *does not break anything*, but it's > a pain to setup. There's another way - php4 runs as an Apache module, while php5 runs as cgi (mapped to .php5, or to .php if you override it via htaccess). Far less hassle to set-up. Probably why the largest independent hosting company in the world* does it this way. If they can manage it across their thousands of servers, any host can. * www.pair.com Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.launchcode.co.uk