Title: PHP version difference after changing it at Bluehost PHP Config
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# PHP version difference after changing it at Bluehost PHP Config

 *  Resolved [Dylan Ko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gonnector/)
 * (@gonnector)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-difference-after-changing-it-at-bluehost-php-config/)
 * I am using WordPress(WP) 3.5.1 based on Bluehost.
 * I have installed plugin [Google+ Comments for WordPress](http://wordpress.org/plugins/gplus-comments/)
   and activated it, but it couldn’t because PHP version is under 5.3
 * **I noticed that default PHP version is 5.2.17 so I changed it at PHP Config 
   of Bluehost cPanel to PHP 5.3 (Single php.ini). I also have checked the information
   showed on Bluehost that current PHP version is 5.3.25.**
 * But it did not work. The error message of the plugin was still in WP, so I checked
   the PHP version that WP is perceiving by plugin [PHP Server Info](http://wordpress.org/plugins/php-server-info/).
 * It says the PHP version is ‘5.2.17’.
 * Why the PHP version is not the same with setting of PHP Config of Bluehost, 5.3?
 * I want to use the plugin…. Please, help me. How can I to solve this problem?

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 *  [BH_WP_Guru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bh_wp_guru/)
 * (@bh_wp_guru)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-difference-after-changing-it-at-bluehost-php-config/#post-3856418)
 * I know that at Bluehost when you change the phpConfig that it will modify the.
   htaccess file in your main public_html folder.
 * If this WordPress that you want to change is in a sub-folder, it might have it’s
   own .htaccess that’s causing it to not use the main one. Try to find the line
   of code in your main .htaccess for php 5.3 and copy it to the .htaccess where
   your WordPress is located.
 *  Thread Starter [Dylan Ko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gonnector/)
 * (@gonnector)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-difference-after-changing-it-at-bluehost-php-config/#post-3856422)
 * Dear BH_WP_Guru,
 * You are really Bluehost and WordPress guru like your nickname !!
 * I solved the problem by your advice exactly.
 * Thank you so much and God bless you.
 *  [Mamdouh Kaldas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elmalak/)
 * (@elmalak)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-difference-after-changing-it-at-bluehost-php-config/#post-3856481)
 * [@bh_wp_guru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bh_wp_guru/),
    I tried to follow
   the same advice after upgrading from PHP 5.2.17 to 5.4 via cPanel, but it still
   shows the old version although I’ve added the code below to the specific .htaccess
   file in that sub-domain.
 *     ```
       # Use PHP5.4 Single php.ini as default
       AddHandler application/x-httpd-php54s .php
       ```
   
 * What’s even stranger is that I have 3 other sub-domains on the same account and
   all of them show the updated version after doing the switch!
 * Any idea what might still be causing this?
 * Many thanks.

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Mamdouh Kaldas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elmalak/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-difference-after-changing-it-at-bluehost-php-config/#post-3856481)
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