Conditional PHP Version in .htaccess

Question

On my local testing server I\'m using PHP 5.4. On the live host, however, I\'m currently limited to PHP 5.3 and it must be specified in .htaccess (otherwise it defaults to

Answer 1

There's no way to do this dynamically using mod_rewrite.

You could try pointing your Action to a neutral php wrapper that can detect whether it needs to run cgi-sys/php53 or the PHP 5.4 version. Something along the lines of:

Action php-cgi /cgi-sys/php-wrapper.cgi
AddHandler php-cgi .php

Then in the cgi-sys/php-wrapper.cgi file, something like:

#!/bin/sh

# check if this is the php 5.3 environment
if [ -x "/path/to/cgi-sys/php53" ]; then
    # execute php 5.3
    export PHPRC=/path/to/php5.3/rc
    exec /path/to/cgi-sys/php53
else 
    # else, run php 5.4
    export PHPRC=/path/to/php5.4/rc
    exec /path/to/cgi-sys/php54
fi