The main purpose of these upgrades is to remove the current PHP4+PHP5 setup and migrate to PHP5 only being available on all UnitedHosting shared/reseller servers. This is due to PHP4 now being end of life and not being maintained any further by the makers.
It is therefore very important that all customers running php scripts/software check that the scripts installed will function correctly on PHP5, and rectify or update to solve any such problems prior to this maintenance in June. PHP4 will no longer be available once this maintenance is completed. You have been warned.
To test your site will function under PHP5, you can add the below two lines of code to an .htaccess file on your site, which will convert it right away to running under PHP5. The code you need to use is:
Code:
Action php5-script /interpreters/php5-script
AddHandler php5-script .php
If you use the above to test your site under PHP5 and experience problems, then those issues will need to be addressed prior to June, otherwise your will will break after this update is completed.
Once these upgrades are complete, we will remove the above php5-script lines from .htaccess files in any sites html folder automatically. If you also use this code in any subfolder or subdomain then you will need to remove those entries yourself to avoid errors, we cannot do those parts automatically.
If you are unsure about any of this then we highly recommend you consult with your webmaster/web developer or contact UH support.
OTHER CHANGES:
o Memory limits will be increased for all sites from the current (8MB or 16MB) up to 32MB
o PHP upload limits will be increased from 2MB to 16MB
o Many new libraries will be added to this php5 build, far more than the current builds in use
o Ioncube added to php build as standard
o Current php.ini files will be replaced by a new php5 ini file with the above changes
o You will still have access to modify the php.ini for your site after this maintenance
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