Php – XAMPP problems with PHP5

PHPxampp

I enabled PHP5 on my website and my webhost needs me to add the following to .htaccess files for PHP5 to work:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml

Locally, I am running XAMPP to develop code, but XAMPP does not want to work with the .htaccess file above.

I think it is an issue with XAMPP not recognizing php5 (but it does recognize php if I use "application/x-httpd-php" instead of "application/x-httpd-php5")

How do I resolve this?! I need the .htaccess files to look like above so they work with my webhost, but I need XAMPP to work locally with the same files without making changes!

Best Answer

Apache has <IfDefine> directive. You can use it to hide AddType from your own server:

<IfDefine !MyServer>
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 …
…
</IfDefine>

And start apache with

apachectl -D MyServer

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Php – Extension PHP5 does not parse in XAMPP

Follow the path c:/xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-xammp

Open httpd-xammp

Find the area of the text that resembles this:

<FilesMatch "\.php$"> 
   SetHandler application/x-httpd-php   
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.phps$">
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source
</FilesMatch>

replace the top line of the code with the following:

<FilesMatch "\.php$|\.php5$|\.php4$|\.php3$|\.phtml$|\.phpt$">

so the text resembles the following:

<FilesMatch "\.php$|\.php5$|\.php4$|\.php3$|\.phtml$|\.phpt$"> 
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php  
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.phps$">
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source
</FilesMatch>

That worked for me.

Good luck..

Php – Hunting for PHP5 incompatibilities

The code is assuming that the $go, $file, and $path variables are being magically set. To get around this (and fix the script) you could change the beginning of the script to look like this:

<?  
/* config for the script */  
$download_path = 'content'; /*path to your files, NB: no slash at the end*/  
$sort = 'asort'; /* array sorting - alphabetical sorting for the array */  

/* start the script... no more editing from here on... */  
$go   = $_REQUEST['go'];
$file = $_REQUEST['file'];
$path = $_REQUEST['path'];

// ...

This use to work for you because of something known as Register Globals. This is now turned off since it was a pretty big security problem and it led to sloppy coding practices.

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Php – Extension PHP5 does not parse in XAMPP

Php – Hunting for PHP5 incompatibilities

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