How do i install another version of PhP?

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I would like to have installed WHMCS on my dedicated server. (I already have installed apache2) How do I install PhP 5.4 as WHMCS not support PhP 5.5?

WHMCS System requirements: http://docs.whmcs.com/System_Requirements

I use ubuntu 14.04 & apache2

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 13 '14 at 23:16

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You can try https://github.com/CHH/phpenv

There is one more version manager https://github.com/wilmoore/php-version, but I would give a try to phpenv, because I am using rbenv and it works fine.

answered Dec 13 '14 at 23:16

looper

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Ehm, how do i install phpenv? ;) – Andreas1803 Dec 13 '14 at 23:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 14 '14 at 09:49

There are various methods of solving the issue you are encountering, you can try the following methods:

METHOD 1 :: FRESH INSTALL

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get remove --purge `dpkg -l | grep php | grep -w 5.5 | awk '{print $2}' | xargs`
sudo apt-get purge apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5
sudo sed -i.bak "s/trusty/precise/g" /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-suexec libapache2-mod-fcgid php5-cgi
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-intl php-pear php5-imagick php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-ming php5-ps php5-pspell php5-recode php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-xdebug
sudo sed -i "s/precise/trusty/g" /etc/apt/sources.list
dpkg --get-selections | egrep '^(apache|php)' | sed 's/install/hold/g' | sudo dpkg --set-selections
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install  mysql-client mysql-server phpmyadmin

This will install the following Packages:

Apache fcgid PHP 5.4 MySQL PHPMyAdmin and a few other software (including popular PHP Extensions)

METHOD 2 :: MULTIPLE PHP VERSIONS

This method assumes that you have Installed Git (and Nano) on your server

1) Install Dependencies (IF you haven't already):

sudo apt-get install build-essential git apache2-mpm-worker libapache2-mod-fastcgi php5-fpm

2) Install PHP Dependencies:

sudo apt-get build-dep php5

3) Download PHP Farm:

sudo git clone https://github.com/cweiske/phpfarm.git /opt/phpfarm

4) Navigate Directory:

cd /opt/phpfarm/src

5) Compile PHP Versions (of your choice):]

Full list of all versions is available here: http://museum.php.net

NOTE! Install location is /opt/phpfarm/inst/bin when finished.

PHP 5.4: sudo ./compile.sh 5.4.0 PHP 5.5: sudo ./compile.sh 5.5.0 PHP 5.6: sudo ./compile.sh 5.5.6

6) Enable FAST-CGI

sudo a2enmod actions fastcgi alias

7) Restart Apache

sudo service apache2 restart

8) Create FastCGIServer Config

sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/php-cgisetup.conf

9) Edit FastCGIServer Config

You will need to have one line for each version of PHP that you created with PHPFarm, Use (CTRL+O) to save and (CTRL+X) to close.

#php-cgi setup
#used for multiple php versions
FastCgiServer /var/www/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.4.0
FastCgiServer /var/www/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.5.0
FastCgiServer /var/www/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.5.6
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin-php/ /var/www/cgi-bin/

10) Create CGI-BIN

sudo mkdir /var/www/cgi-bin

11) Create PHP-CGI File (for Specific PHP Version)

For Example (for PHP 5.4):

sudo nano /var/www/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.4.0

12) Edit PHP-CGI File

#!/bin/sh 
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=3 
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN 
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=5000 
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS 
exec /opt/phpfarm/inst/bin/php-cgi-5.4.0

Note: If you wish to compile another version of PHP, then just replace the "php-cgi-5.4.0" on both step 11 and 12 with php-cgi-X.X.X", where X.X.X stands for the PHP Version your after

13) Set CGI-BIN Owner

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/cgi-bin

14) Set CGI-BIN Permissions

sudo chmod -R 0744 /var/www/cgi-bin

15) Navigate to Directory

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

16) Create Virtual Hosts

sudo nano php-dev

17) Edit Virtual Hosts

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName **PHP 5.4 HOSTNAME GOES HERE**
DocumentRoot /var/www 
 <Directory />
   Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All
   AddHandler php-cgi .php
   Action php-cgi /cgi-bin-php/php-cgi-5.4.0
 </Directory>
 ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
 LogLevel warn
 CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
 </VirtualHost>

 <VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName **PHP 5.5 HOSTNAME GOES HERE**
 DocumentRoot /var/www
 <Directory />virtual host
   Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All
   AddHandler php-cgi .php
   Action php-cgi /cgi-bin-php/php-cgi-5.5.0
 </Directory>
 ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
 LogLevel warn
 CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
 </VirtualHost> 

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName **PHP 5.6 HOSTNAME GOES HERE**
 DocumentRoot /var/www
 <Directory />
   Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All
   AddHandler php-cgi .php
   Action php-cgi /cgi-bin-php/php-cgi-5.5.6
 </Directory>
 ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
 LogLevel warn
 CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
 </VirtualHost>

You will have to configure this to your needs.

18) Disable Default Website

sudo a2dissite default

19) Enable the New Website

sudo a2ensite php-dev

20) Navigate to the WWW Directory

cd /var/www

21) Reload Apache

sudo service apache2 reload

22) Remove Old Index

rm index.html

23) Create a Test PHP Page

sudo nano index.php

24) Edit the Test Page We've made

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

25) Get your Server IP Address

If you don't know how, use the following command:

ifconfig

26) Open the /etc/hosts file

sudo nano /etc/hosts

27) Edit the Hosts File

127.0.0.1 YOURWEBSITEURLFORPHP54.COM
127.0.0.1 YOURWEBSITEURLFORPHP55.COM
127.0.0.1 YOURWEBSITEURLFORPHP56.COM

and that's that, you can now save this, and Reload/Restart Apache if you need to and test your new websites, which run on different php versions!

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