As I was installing TYPO3 on my Lunarpages account yesterday, I noticed that PHP4 was the active version on my account. This sort of confused as I thought I enabled PHP5 through cPanel as they mention in their knowledgebase. I soon found out that enabling PHP5 through cPanel will only work for you main domain and not for any additional domains you might have added.

Here’s how to enable PHP5 for addon domains on Lunarpages:

1. Use your favorite FTP client to connect to your Lunarpages hosting account.
2. Browse to your addon domain directory and look for a file named .htaccess
3. If there’s such a file, download it to your computer and if not, create a new one locally.
4. At the top of your .htaccess file, add the following lines:

   AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml
   AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml
   

5. Save the file and upload it back to your server, overwritting the current .htaccess file (if there’s already one).

And that’s it! PHP5 should now be enabled for your addon domain. Repeat this procedure for any additional domains you might have.

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It finally happened: the web’s favorite hosting company has finally gone green! But HostGator isn’t only following what seems to be a trend in most market: they are going at it big time.

According to a post on Gator Crossing, HostGator has decided to take action on addressing climate change. With the help of Integrated Ecosystem Market Services,  they have built a program to use renewable energy to power and cool their servers.

HostGator has bought Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) from 3Degress, for 130% of the electricity used to power and cool their shared and reseller servers.

But being a green company doesn’t mean only buying carbon offsets and HostGator knows it. Prior to buying RECs, they’ve also reduced their energy consumption at the office by recycling, using less paper, etc. Recently they’ve also switched to higher efficiency servers to save on electricity costs.

So if you’re looking for a true Green Web Host then HostGator is your next stop. Use HostGator Coupon Code GREEN when signing up and get 20% off your initial order!

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Following up on our introductory post on HostGator Vs Lunarpages, we’re now going to take an in-depth look into each web host’s website hosting plans and compare them side-by-side.

In this case we’re talking about “standard hosting plans” which are based on Linux web servers with cPanel control panel.

HostGator offers 3 different hosting plans for which the main differences are mostly the storage space and bandwidth.

Lunarpages on the other hand offers a Basic Hosting plan as well as Business Hosting plan. In this case, the major differences resides in the fact that you get 4 free domains and a dedicated IP address with the Business Hosting package.

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This is not totally related to web hosting but I thought I’d let you know that Google has just launched their own web browser named Chrome as a beta release.

The browser was made available for download overnight on September 2nd 2008. Actually it is only available for Microsoft Windows but Google plans to make it available for some other operating systems eventually.

Installing Google Chrome is pretty simple and achieved by launching an .exe file. The installer will then ask you to close your current web browser window so that it can import some settings and bookmarks.

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