change all php files to php5? I can't install Prestashop!!

[escente]

The owner of my server says they are running php5 and I might need to change all of my file names to .php5 for them to load properly, but there are hundreds of them and I can't imagine doing all of that by hand. We are trying to install prestashop and had it loaded yesterday but were unable to access the back end of the store. Something changed (we still aren't sure what) and now when we try to install (using mystore.com/install and mystore.com/prestashop/install) it says the link is broken. We are at a total loss for what to do next. Is someone a wizard that can walk me through this? We are reading the userguide as well as the wiki for installation. We have a database created but just can't install the software. Help! Thanks so much!

Jen at (hopefully someday, escente.com)

[escente]

Me again (same poster with original question). I looked around on the forum and saw information about creating a .htaccess file and adding AddType x-mapp-php5 .php to it, which I have done. (I found the .htacess file under my admin/backup file, is this the right one?), I also saw a post about adding php 1 to that file as an additional line, which I have done. I went from getting message "Oops this link is broken" to:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /nfs/c06/h04/mnt/95457/domains/escente.com/html/install/classes/ToolsInstall.php on line 4

which I have read means I'm not running php5 on my host, but my host (a personal one) says that it is automatically updated to php5 and that I might need to change all of the files from .php to .php5, but like I said earlier there are hundreds of them and I don't see how that is a possibility. Help please?

Jen

[escente]

Me again again, I ended up posting this in the .htacess file and now at least the prestashop installer is opening, although it is saying I have issues with Java now

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5

this file is under the admin folder, then the backups folder, for anyone who reads this who is having a similar issue. Then those two lines have to be the first two lines of the file, so you right click the file, click view/edit, then copy and paste those lines as the very top two lines of the text document that opens.

This worked for me, at least for now.

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