Making the move from PHP4 to PHP5

I mean, how hard can it be?

[Karma]

Hey all,

I've just been notified by my webhost (Pair) that my site will be moving from PHP4 (4.3.8) to PHP5 (5.2.3) and Apache 1.3.37 to 2.2.4. While I have been expecting this for a while, I'll put my hands-up and say that I've not taken the time to change anything. I now have until next week(!) to make sure everythings working *gulp*

My site isn't huge but I have alot of visitors and make a little money through Adsense, so I really need to make sure everything is secure and working to keep my visitors happy and obviously prevent any loss of $.

I was thinking about maybe creating a local test server using something like AppServ but I'm not sure if this will truly replicate the FreeBSD enviornment.

I'm not a great PHP programmer and know little about Apache, so any advice on how to make the transition as smooth as possible would be a great help to me.

Thanks in advance

[jatar_k]

your main concern is php and apache so I would do as you mentioned and set up a local environment to test with.

try this thread
Installing a new web server: Apache2, PHP5, MySQL4 and PHPmyAdmin [webmasterworld.com]