Properly Upgrading from php v5.2 to v5.4

[romary18]

I have already tried to normal way of upgrading:

GodaddyHome > Programming Languages > select php version

It "looks" like it succeeded: (image shows Godaddy serverdetails sidebar displaying php v5.4)

But within wordpress dashboard, the upgrade never occurred:

I am still at version php v5.2 (the image shows wordpress dashboard displaying php at v5.2)

My wordpress is up to date(4.9), I am confident the php on server is not updated because a wordpress plugin-code breaks at a line that uses "php Namespaces"  

php Namespaces were introduced into in phpv5.3

Please someone help, I have spent waay too long on this issue

How can I properly upgrade to 5.4 or 5.6

[romary18 · Accepted solution]

spoke to customer support and they renamed the .htaccess file on the root directory to .htaccess.disabled

and now it works

hope this helps someonelse