Comments on: Upgrading GoDaddy Hosting to PHP 5.x from PHP 4.3.11

By: JOEyGADGET

JOEyGADGET — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:09:04 +0000

Thanks for post – and special thanks to ** LC Roque ** for clarifying the step “Click on Default Extensions and then click on the Edit button (it looks like a piece of paper and a pencil) to the right of .php | PHP **4**.x. Click on Continue. **In the dropdown box, change PHP4.x to PHP 5.x.**” which corrected the trouble I was having trying to make this work. Thank you, LC Roque! JOEyGADGET

By: Gurpreet

Gurpreet — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:14:51 +0000

Thank you so much. Was scratching my head from yesterday, but the PHP Info was still showing PHP 4.4.9. Your article solved my problem in 5 minutes. Thank you so much.

By: BCGM3

BCGM3 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:40:13 +0000

Worked perfectly, and in under 10 minutes. THANKS!

By: Kir

Kir — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:17:39 +0000

Thank you. I took confidence from this post to upgrade one of my hosted-at-GoDaddy sites to php 5.x.
Now my File Extensions table reads:
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Extension Runs under
.php4 PHP 4.x
.php5 PHP 5.x
.php PHP 5.x
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and the phpinfo is updated (turns out its version 5.2.17 now, not 5.2.5 — not a big surprise).
I’ll remember to add custom extensions if I need to.
Off to work on a client site now I’ve tested this on a spare…

Thanks again.

By: Juan

Juan — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:10:23 +0000

Thanks!!!!

By: LC Roque

LC Roque — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:20:07 +0000

Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU.

Worked like a charm. Knew it worked immediately b/c I was able to update WordPress, which had previously refused to update automatically.

One small note: For me, when I looked at the Hosting Control Center, I saw 2 lines. The first said “Extension -> .php | Runs Under -> PHP 4.x”. The second said “Extension -> .php5 | Runs Under -> PHP 5.x”. So for me, I did the following, based on your instructions above, with my changes noted between the **_**:
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“Back in the Hosting Control Center, click on Settings, then File Extension. If the change to 5.x has been completed, you’ll see at the bottom of the available extensions list, “Extension -> .php**5** | Runs Under -> PHP 5.x” If it’s not there, stop here and come back in an hour or so.

Click on Custom Extensions at the left. This should be empty, with a message stating “No custom extensions have been created.”

Click on Default Extensions and then click on the Edit button (it looks like a piece of paper and a pencil) to the right of .php | PHP **4**.x. Click on Continue. **In the dropdown box, change PHP4.x to PHP 5.x.**

Click again on the Custom Extensions button on the left, and you should now see “Extension -> .php | Runs Under -> PHP 5.x”. Check your phpinfo page one more time, and it should report PHP 5.x.

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THANK YOU. Your instructions were a HUGE help.

By: paris

paris — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:52:20 +0000

thanks for this info!
in my case php was a 4.4.9 and after doing the “Add-On languages” and waiting, .php files were still being parsed as php4 until i modified the .htaccess file as mentioned above. after doing that phpinfo tells me i have version 5.2.14 – so maybe different servers are running different versions. too bad we can’t have the latest.

By: If Your Plugins Aren’t Working | cyandev

If Your Plugins Aren’t Working | cyandev — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:59:55 +0000

[...] not updated, check with your host to see what you can do. Here’s a guide to doing it with GoDaddy which I used to update mine! Share and [...]

By: Eduardo Cachucho

Eduardo Cachucho — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:22:51 +0000

Can php only be installed in a linux hosting package? I have a Windows hosting package, and php doesn’t come up at all in the add-on languages.

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:43:34 +0000

thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. i was beginning to believe godaddy was so incredibly barbaric that they hadn’t yet upgrade to PHP5. the interface to change 4 -> 5 is not where i thought it’d be and the rule in the .htaccess sealed the deal. thanks so much.