Performance of PHP is greatly increased in the version 7.0 and support for the older version will be ended in newer future. So it is now critical to update your PHP version. But at the same point, there are applications of environment that demand older version of PHP. You may need to run several versions of PHP under one apache server.
I looked at the various options and I was given the launch of the old version of PHP 5.6 via FastCGI. So, I already have the Apache server installed and PHP 7.0 installed. Let’s start with downloading and building PHP 5.6.
We need to execute the folowing necessary commands to prepare your machine to build and execute the application from source code.
apt-get -y install build-essential libfcgi-dev libfcgi0ldbl libjpeg62-dbg libmcrypt-dev libssl-dev libc-client2007e libc-client2007e-lib libxml2-dev libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev libpng12-dev libfreetype6-dev libkrb5-dev libpq-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev pkg-config
Now you need to prepare directory to compile and run the project.
mkdir /opt/php-5.6.34 # create a folder in which the compiled php will be compiled mkdir /usr/local/src/php5-build #create the source folder cd /usr/local/src/php5-build #move to this folder wget http://php.net/get/php-5.6.34.tar.bz2/from/a/mirror tar jxf php-5.6.34.tar.bz2 # unpack the archive cd php-5.6.34 / #go to the source folder
Next, configure and compile php-5.6.34.
./configure –prefix=/opt/php-5.6.30 –with-config-file-path=/opt/php-5.6.340 –with-pdo-pgsql –with-zlib-dir –with-freetype-dir –enable-mbstring –with-libxml-dir=/usr –enable-soap –enable-calendar –with-curl=/usr/bin –with-mcrypt –with-zlib –with-gd –with-pgsql –disable-rpath –enable-inline-optimization –with-zlib –enable-sockets –enable-sysvsem –enable-sysvshm –enable-pcntl –enable-mbregex –with-mhash –enable-zip –with-pcre-regex –with-mysql –with-pdo-mysql –with-mysqli –with-jpeg-dir=/usr –with-png-dir=/usr –enable-gd-native-ttf –with-openssl –enable-ftp –with-kerberos –with-gettext –enable-cli –enable-fastcgi –enable-discard-path –enable-force-cgi-redirect –enable-cgi
compile and install
make make install
At the end of the run, you will have the compiled version of php-5.6.34 in the /opt/php-5.6.34/ directory.
Next, you need to install the module for apache.
apt-get install libapache2-mod-fastcgi
and run it and another module.
a2enmod fastcgi a2enmod actions
Next, edit the configuration file /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/fastcgi.conf (cite the contents).
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi #FastCgiWrapper /usr/lib/apache2/suexec FastCgiIpcDir /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi FastCgiServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php56-cgi -idle-timeout 240
Then we create a wrapper through which the php scripts will be executed.
vi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php56-cgi
#!/bin/sh PHPRC="/opt/php-5.6.34/" export PHPRC PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=4 export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=5000 export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS exec /opt/php-5.6.34/bin/php-cgi
Let’s add the execution rights.
sudo chmod + x /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php56-cgi
Create an apache configuration file with the settings of the php script handler.
vi /etc/apache2/php56.conf
LogLevel warn Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI Require all granted <FilesMatch ".php"> SetHandler application/x-httpd-php5 ScriptAlias /php56-cgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php56-cgi Action application/x-httpd-php5 /php56-cgi AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
It remains to create a configuration file for the virtual host and add the import php56.conf.
vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/test.conf
Include php56.conf
ServerName test.local
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/test
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Require all granted
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Add this virtual host to the Apache configuration
a2ensite test.conf
and restart the service
service apache2 restart
To verify, create a file
vi /var/www/test/phpinfo.php
Another site with the higher version of php,
Voila. You have now multiple versions of PHP on the same server.