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My advice: move to a decent host. 1and1 is giving you nonsense excuses.

Now let me back this up (no pun intended) with arguments. PHP6 was cancelled some 3 years ago. Instead, PHP 5.3 was created out of the ashes of that old project and PHP 5.4 is the natural progression. Right now, PHP 5.3 is a mature project and PHP 5.4 is a stable project. So, how come 1and1 propose to use PHP6, a product never officially released as an alternative?

It's simple, really. They have created their servers about three to four years ago. The only PHP versions back then were 5.1 (which was just end of life), 5.2 (which was stable) and 6 (which was under development). It seems that 1and1 will simply not update their servers through all those years. Instead of investing a minimal amount of time to install PHP 5.3 on their servers and allow you to access it through .htaccess they decided to stick with the OBSOLETE, ANCIENT versions of PHP they had put on their servers when they built them. In typical 1and1 fashion they gave you a nonsense reply of using this OBSOLETE, ANCIENT AND CANCELLED version of PHP instead. They don't care about you and your security. They only care about profit, even if it's at the peril of your site.

Therefore my advice is to vote with your wallet. If they treat you like crap just take your business to a decent host. For example, a decent, up to date and low-cost host is SiteGround. There many other decent hosts out there like Rochen, CloudAccess.net, iRedHost and so on. There is no reason sticking with a company which doesn't care updating their servers and gives you extremely stupid and dangerous advice when you ask them for support.

Yes, the yellow window cannot be removed. I had two options for letting users know that PHP 5.2 support is going to be discontinued soon: 1. mention it in the release announcement or 2. the yellow box. Past experience with dropping Joomla! 1.6, 1.7 and 1.5 support has showed me that nobody reads the release announcements and everyone complains that I didn't give advance notice. So I decided to go with the second option. I am going to improve the styling of the box to make it a standard warning box which doesn't stick out as bad as it does now.

Instead of going back you can install the latest dev release which includes the fix for this issue. Or you can wait a few more days for me to release a new version.

I assume you mean Joomla! 1.5.26, not 1.5.6. Joomla! 1.5.6 won't run at all with PHP 5.4 :) You may also want to read my reply on another, similar ticket.

No problem!

Are both sites running on the same server? Please note that using the same hosting company doesn't say much. Usually hosting companies have many servers with different setups. A .htaccess directive used on one server may not work on another. If unsure, please contact your host and ask them if the AddType and AddHandler directives are supposed to work on the specific server hosting this particular site.

That's good to know! At least I can tell other people using 1and1 to pursue a similar resolution to the PHP upgrade problems.