How can I find the version of php that is running on a distinct domain name

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How can I find the version of php that is running on a distinct server with distinct domain name   like www abc com  It is not my server  no ftp access for making a php file with this code    lt  php     echo PHP VERSION    gt

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THE ANSWER IS   NMAP PROGRAM  THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTIONS      another way is getting HTTP Headers by this site  http   web-sniffer net   or firefox add-on for getting HTTP Headers     Best Regards

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Sometimes  PHP will emit a X-Powered-By  response header which you can look at e g  using Firebug    If this setting  controlled by the ini setting expose php  is turned off  it often is   there is no way to tell the PHP version used - and rightly so  What PHP version is running is none of the outside world s business  and it s good to obscure this from a security perspective

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This works for me   curl -I http   websitename com   Which shows results like this or similar including the PHP version   HTTP 1 1 200 OK Date  Thu  13 Feb 2014 03 40 38 GMT Server  Apache X-Powered-By  PHP 5 4 19 P3P  CP  NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM  Cache-Control  no-cache Pragma  no-cache Set-Cookie  7b79f6f1623da03a40d003a755f75b3f 87280696a01afebb062b319cacd3a6a9  path   Content-Type  text html  charset utf-8   Note that if you receive this message   HTTP 1 1 301 Moved Permanently   You may need to curl the www version of the website instead i e    curl -I http   www websitename com

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I suggest you much easier and platform independent solution to the problem - wappalyzer for Google Chrome     See here

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You can   t  One reason is that not every web site uses PHP  And another reason is  Even if there are some signs that PHP might be used  e g   php file name extension  some    PHPSESSID    parameter  X-Powered-By header field containing    PHP     etc   those information might be spoofed to let you think PHP is used

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By chance  Default error pages often contain detailed information  e g       Apache  Version    OS    Modules  PHP  Version   Modules  Server at  Domain    Not so easy  Find out which versions of PHP applications run on the server and which version of PHP they require   Another approach  only mentioned for the sake of completeness  please forget after reading  You could  but you won t   detect the PHP version by trying known exploits

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There is a possibility to find the PHP version of other domain by checking  X-Powered-By  response header in the browser through developer tools as other already mentioned it  If it is not exposed through the php ini configuration there is no way you can get it unless you have access to the server

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I use redbot  a great tool to see php version  but also many other useful infos like headers  encoding  keepalive and many more   try it on   http   redbot org  I loveit     I also upvote Neil answer    curl -I http   websitename com

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There is a surprisingly effective way that consists of using the easter eggs   They differ from version to version

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Possibly use something like firefox s tamperdata and look at the header returned  if they have publishing enabled

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