Drush works on 1and1. How to get past "Your command line PHP installation is too old. Drush requires at least PHP 5.2.0" messag

holy... - they are still defaulting to php4? Wow... Awesomeness!

Remember to make sure to use the full absolute path, which is some long string of stuff if you are using 1and1 shared hosting. If you need to figure out what that is, google "find my absolute path" and you're sure to find some code that might help.

Also, you'll want to add the line 'export COLUMS' after the alias. Per the drush readme:

NOTE FOR ADVANCED USERS
- If you want to run drush with a specific version of php, rather than the
one found by the drush command, you can instead create an alias that
executes the drush.php file directly:
$ alias drush='/path/to/php/php5 /path/to/drush/drush.php'
If you do this, to allow Drush to detect the number of available columns,
you need to add the line 'export COLUMNS' to the .profile file in your
home folder.

Note that when the "drush" script invokes drush.php, it also includes the --php option to specify where your php is located. This is really important if you're going to use any of the drush features that cause drush to call itself (e.g. pm-update).

alias drush='/usr/local/bin/php5 ~/drush/drush.php --php=/usr/local/bin/php5'

Yeah, this should be in the installation notes...

Thanks for you input. I am getting closer but not quite there. I put the alias drush='/usr/local/bin/php5 ~/drush/drush.php' and export COLUMNS in a .profile as you suggested and I no longer get the php too old message. What I now see is;
Status: 404 Not Found
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13
Content-type: text/html

No input file specified.

I even tried putting the path from pwd inplace of the "~" and received the same results.
I even put drush in ~/drush/ to match your example. The one addition thing I tried was to add execute permission to drush/drush and all *.php I could find (six of them).

Thanks,
Jon

On 1and1.com server, I've done everything you did in the .profile file, and logged out and back in. I also made sure the drush file is executable, but I still get

$~ drush
No input file specified.

here's my .profile file (actual pathname redacted):

alias drush='/usr/local/bin/php5 -q -d memory_limit=80M /*/*/*/*/htdocs/bin/drush/drush.php --php=/usr/local/bin/php5 -q -d'
export COLUMNS

While all the above is very helpful for getting drush to work when you have the console open on your 1and1 account, I had some issues when running drush remotely, it was ignoring .profile so I managed to add a bit to my aliases.drush.php file, the key line here is %drush-script I hope this of some help.

$aliases['mysite.live'] = array(
    'remote-host' => 'mysite.com',
    'remote-user' => 'myuser',
    'remote-root' => '/.../.../.../.../htdocs/mysite',
    'uri' => 'www.mysite.com',
    'root' => '/.../.../.../.../htdocs/mysite',
    'ssh-options' => '-i ~/.ssh/mysite.private',
    'path-aliases' => array(
        '%drush-script' => '/usr/local/bin/php5 /<PATH TO>/htdocs/drush/drush.php --php=/usr/local/bin/php5',
    ), 
); 

Spoke with 1&1 for awhile. They stated that Drush cannot be used with 1&1 shared hosting.
You need a dedicated server package.

I would like to reply that while 1and1 may not officially support the use of drush on their shared severs, it does work with the above method. At least it works as of this posting.

I get this error, pretty much the same as the last poster but my perms are not denied.

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.9
Content-type: text/html

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /*/*/*/*/*/drush/includes/environment.inc on line 518

I have the Business package using Linux and PHP5 is installed

Help would be awesome, I'd rather update with drush than otherwise. Thanks!