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This is the official hostgator announcement posted by GatorJess on 19 June 2008

All of our shared and reseller servers now have both PHP 4 and PHP 5 installed. The cPanel software will always reflect your current PHP version in the lower left General Server Information box. (NOTE: If you are on php4 by default and use the .htaccess edit to use php5, cPanel will still reflect version 4 as that is the default server engine. However, php5 can still be used for your scripts.)

If you are using php4 by default and wish to use php5, you can easily configure your account to do so by adding a line to the apache .htaccess file for your account. For the primary domain name on an account, the .htaccess file should be located in the public_html folder. If it does not exist, you may create a text file called .htaccess.

Place the following command in the file, save it, and you should be all set:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

***Please note, if php4 is the default engine, PHP 5 will not work work using a temporary URL. PHP 5 is only accessible when using the domain name to access your account.***

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