Title: [Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Jetpack Sharedaddy breaking site
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Jetpack Sharedaddy breaking site

 *  [Drayu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drayu/)
 * (@drayu)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-jetpack-sharedaddy-breaking-site/)
 * Everytime I have installed Jetpack on either of the two sites I have running 
   I get this error after a day or two and can only regain access to the site by
   going into the FTP and deleting jetpack files.
 * **Error:**
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION
   or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /homepages/34/xxxxxx/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/
   jetpack/modules/sharedaddy/sharing.php on line 4
 * Using 1&1 with phpversion: 4.4.9
    I have just noticed that it is php version 
   4.4.9. This is odd because I have edited the hta.access file to include the two
   lines that change it to php 5…
 * any help?

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 *  Thread Starter [Drayu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drayu/)
 * (@drayu)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-jetpack-sharedaddy-breaking-site/#post-2014957)
 * re-added the two lines in the hta.access file:
 * AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
 * AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
 * and now the site is back up and working. Does that file get over written? should
   I make it read-only? any 1&1 users that can help?
 * Thank you in advance!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Andy Peatling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apeatling/)
 * (@apeatling)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-jetpack-sharedaddy-breaking-site/#post-2015218)
 * Sharedaddy only supports PHP5. In 1.1.1 you should not be able to active Sharedaddy
   on a PHP4 host.
 *  [Ethan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bige/)
 * (@bige)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-jetpack-sharedaddy-breaking-site/#post-2015308)
 * Doing some work for someone with the same problem – they are on 1and1 hosting
   and Sharedaddy (in Jetpack) has hijacked the administration area of the site.
 * [@drayu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drayu/), thanks for sharing your
   fix. That was the trick for me, too.
    I re-edited the .htaccess file to force
   PHP5 and the site works again.
 * Does anyone know what might have caused this, or how to prevent it from happening
   in the future?

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 * Last reply from: [Ethan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bige/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-jetpack-sharedaddy-breaking-site/#post-2015308)
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