PHP5 downgrading to PHP4

[Thomas Springer]

Hi.

Rob Marchal wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> since php5 looks quite different to php4 (coding part)
> i am trying to downgrade to php4. I have tried several ways
> to do that but failed.
>
You must did sth wrong.
 
> I did yum remove php and  taken a php4 rpm fc3.  But then
> at install it ask for the cdrom  and installs php5 again.
>
I would not recommand that.

> I have taken a version from php.net but have no idea how to
> make the server correspond with that php version becouse
> when i edit the httpd.conf  my server wont restart anymore
> becouse of some error which would be the LoadModule part.
> 
You should tell us what exactly the httpd stderr'd when not
starting, but...
 
> So, could someone point me in the correct direction to get php4
> working on this machine?
>
I suggest you should be fine with it when installing the source, again,
and tell Apache to handle PHP, which is done through a file named :

$ cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/php4.conf

---------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it
# easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages.
#
LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so

#
# Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension.
#
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .inc

#
# Cause PHP interpreter to display files with a .phps extension as
# source.
#
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

#
# Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory
# indexes.
#
DirectoryIndex index.php index.php4
--------------------------------------------------------------------

These instructions can also be placed into the httpd.conf, but repeating
them in both files is afaik fatal.  
 
> Thanks a lot,
> Rob
> 

Thomas