Title: 2.5  Admin side PHP5 only?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 2.5 Admin side PHP5 only?

 *  [fatherstorm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fatherstorm/)
 * (@fatherstorm)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-admin-side-php5-only/)
 * I noticed that although the main site works fine with PHP4 (I have some cross-
   site code that needs PHP4), the admin site will break with a 500 error code unless
   I change the .htaccess file accordingly.
    so.. the .htaccess for the root directory
   is
 *     ```
       AddType x-mapp-php4 .php
       AddHandler x-mapp-php4 .php
   
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * and for w the wp-admin folder is:
 *     ```
       AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
       AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
   
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   

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 *  [jom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jom/)
 * (@jom)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-admin-side-php5-only/#post-718681)
 * You should consider to make all your code PHP5 compatible and perhaps ask your
   host to upgrade, too, because PHP4 support has been dropped since January 2008,
   I think.
 * I am not quite sure, if WordPress still supports PHP4. All my servers are already
   running PHP5, so I do not experience any problems.
 *  Thread Starter [fatherstorm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fatherstorm/)
 * (@fatherstorm)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-admin-side-php5-only/#post-718737)
 * host supports it. But do some page-scraping against ucomics site that requires
   me doing a remote file read that I haven’t sat down to find a more graceful way
   to make work in PHP5.. at the bottom of my Blog, americasblood.com I pull in 
   all the daily available editorial cartoons against a list of all possible ones.
   it’s pretty heavy in checking back up to 3 days worth of any artists stuff, and
   I have to read the existence (or not) of a jpeg file… I may start doing all the
   checking in GD, but that’s a good-sized rewrite.

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