Comments on: PHP5 on Media Temple Grid-Server

By: Joshua Pinter

Joshua Pinter — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:12:45 +0000

You the man Adam.

I was dreading dealing with the MediaTemple folks for this. Slam dunk!

Thanks.

By: csseyah

csseyah — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:50:59 +0000

many many thanks sir.. It works also to me..

By: touchan

touchan — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:17:02 +0000

Great Note. I had an issue with updating to PHP5 from PHP4 on multibyte texts. When you choose php5 option from the admin panel, MT adds only “AddHandler php5-script .php”. This looses capability to resolve multibyte. If you put some in multibyte, it goes somewhere and only alphabet and numbers are there. Once I added the “Action php5-script /gs-bin/php-5.2.6-1,” the issue was resolved. I was looking for an answer but didn’t imagine this can resolve the issue.

Thank you very much for sharing this tip!!

By: Brad Proctor

Brad Proctor — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:44:13 +0000

Thanks, just what I needed. I’m stuck with them where I work, Media Temple is horrible.

By: Dan Woodward

Dan Woodward — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:49:10 +0000

So I have been using the Account setting process to do this for a while now. Changing the PHP settings to version 5 from the account center will just add this to the htaccess

AddHandler php5-script .php

But I have found that I if I add the specific version

Action php5-script /gs-bin/php-5.2.6-1

On some sites, specifically Stacey, the speed improvements are drastic. Without specifying the php version, the document load time is say 1s, with the php version it would drop down to 300ms.

Just some of my findings, not sure if this is actually valid.

By: unk

unk — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:16:32 +0000

wow. thanks for this!!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 02:01:11 +0000

just do this.. goto MT GS CP > CLICK PHP Settings > Select PHP5 for whatever domain.

By: Paris Vega

Paris Vega — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:49:02 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Exactly what I was looking for. Site worked as soon as I added this to the .htaccess file.

By: Omar

Omar — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:09:44 +0000

It worked so great, thank you for you post ^_^

By: brw

brw — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:50:15 +0000

really need this. thanks!