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Hello. I have been looking at civicrm, and think that it would be an excellent fit for my organization. Here is the problem:

Our host has PHP4 and PHP5 installed on the server. They told me that in order to run PHP5, I need to change the extension of the files from .php to .php5, or add the following line to my .htaccess file (if I want to keep the .php extension):

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
I tried to add the line to the file, but it broke some of the other parts of my site. SO...my question is this:

Can I change the file extensions on the civicrm files to .php5? Can I run both PHP4 and PHP5 on the same site? Sorry if these sound like stupid questions, but I just don't know the answers.

Thanks for your help.

So civicrm will be placed in a separate folder? Cool. that will work. I'll download it and try.

Thanks for your help.

Yes, CiviCRM runs off of its own directory, so putting the .htaccess file there should be all that is needed.

Alternatively, you can switch the other files to have .php4 extension; switching CiviCRM to have .php5 extension is a lot of work, as you’d have to replace all the require_once calls inside CiviCRM that import .php files.