Two PHP versions on one Windose/Apache machine

[Itshim]

I needed to install an old version of PHP on my development machine, without disrupting my current version.

To do this, I moved all the PHP drivers and ini files out of my Windows and SYSTEM32 directories and placed them in my c:/php/ directory. I then created a new directory 'c:/php4/' and placed all the files for that version in the directory. For simplicities sake I created a new entry in my apache config file:

ScriptAlias /php4/ "C:/php4/"
AddType application/x-httpd-php4 .php4
Action application/x-httpd-php4 "/php4/php.exe"

Now if I want to run the script through PHP4 I use the extension .php4, and if I want to run it through php5 I use .php (I can live with this).

Looking at the phpinfo() page for both versions everything seems to be working, but I am left to wonder if I'm going to cause myself problems that I am unaware of.

Thanks,
Itshim

 

[sleipnir214]

I would be very much suprised if the two did not interfere with one another. I would look for weirdness caused by problems with support libary revision incompatibilities.

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[Itshim]

Thank you, I was afraid of that. I ran some pretty basic scripts just testing different things here and there and have not found any problems, but I think I am going to scrap this idea and try a different route. Although I'm not sure what that is at the moment.

Back to the drawing board...

Thanks again,
Itshim