Upgrade PHP version

I see that DreamHost currently is running with PHP version 4.4.4, and I was wondering if they could upgrade to PHP 5, at least.

Thanks

You can select whether you want to run PHP4 or PHP5 yourself at any time; Dreamhost offers both pre-compiled and installed.

Just go to the Control Panel-->Manage Domains screen and click the "edit" link to the right side of the screen adjacent to the domain name on which you want to make a change.

From the next screen, select the appropriate radio button for the PHP version you wish to use and save the settings - you'll be good to go with the selected version in just a few minutes.

--rlparker

You can switch to running PHP5 in the Control Panel (Manage Domains).

Oh, thanks.

Why is version 5 not the default?

In reply to:
Why is version 5 not the default?

I have no idea, though, in my experience, a great many (maybe even most) commonly used scripts out there either still require register_globals_on (which is unfortunate) or are not yet upgraded to work properly with the default settings of PHP5 - generally speaking, I think PHP4 runs more stuff "out of the box" at this time.

A great many scripts that people try to run here are more easily run under DH's PHP4 than PHP5. I'd like to see that change, and I suspect it will in time. At any rate, that is just my "guess"; I'm sure DH has their reasons. wink

--rlparker

Thank you so much for the fast and helpful help! >,<

You are most welcome; I try to help when I can. I think you will generally find a good level of "customer-to-customer" support here on the Forums, and there are some real experts that drop in here. Rock On!

--rlparker