How to Enable PHP 5.3+ on HostGator

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HostGator is a pretty ok host.  I’ve had a hosting account with them for awhile and recently had to upgrade one of my sites to use PHP version 5.3+.

Enable PHP 5.3+ with via .htaccess

Open the site’s .htaccess file that you want to upgrade the PHP version in your favorite editor and add the following to top of the file:

# Use PHP 5.3
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php53 .php
suPHP_ConfigPath /opt/php53/lib

Refresh your website and you should see in your PHP info that your are indeed now using PHP version 5.3+. Hope this helps my fellow HostGatorers!

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  1. Thanks good sir! Hostgator doesn’t provide the link to the 5.3 config in their docs when upgrading to PHP 5.3, good thing I found this post on first page of Google! Thank you! You’ve just prevented my site from getting megabytes of error log clutter.

    It’s mid 2013 and Hostgator still isn’t on standard..

  2. After searching for hours, I finally got to sign up here and the problem is solve… YIPPPPeeEEE

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