Setting up multiple PHP versions on CentOS 7

April 21, 2020

A few weeks ago I needed to set up multiple PHP versions on the company server. After a lot of research, I found a solution, and now I’ll share it with you in case you ever need to do this.

Installing all required packages and repositories

The commands below will install all the packages needed for this procedure:

# yum install httpd -y
# yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
# yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
# yum install yum-utils -y
# yum install php56 -y
# yum install php72 -y
# yum install php56-php-fpm -y
# yum install php72-php-fpm -y

Stop the two FPM servers by running the following commands:

# systemctl stop php56-php-fpm
# systemctl stop php72-php-fpm

By default, the servers listen on port 9000, so let’s make them listen on different ports:

# sed -i 's/:9000/:9056/' /etc/opt/remi/php56/php-fpm.d/www.conf
# sed -i 's/:9000/:9072/' /etc/opt/remi/php72/php-fpm.d/www.conf

Now we can start the FPM services:

# systemctl start php72-php-fpm
# systemctl start php56-php-fpm

Let’s open the file /etc/httpd/php.conf and add the snippet below:

<Directory /var/www/html/teste/php72>
<IfModule mod_proxy_fcgi.c>
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler "proxy:fcgi://127.0.0.1:9072"
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
#DirectoryIndexphp
AllowOverride all
Require all granted
</Directory>

Restart the Apache server:

# systemctl restart httpd

After restarting Apache, we’ll run the test. To do that we’ll create a PHP file:

mkdir -p /var/www/html/php72
echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/html/php72/index.php

When you open http://127.0.0.1/php72, you’ll see that PHP 7.2 was installed successfully.

If you want the FPM servers to start with the system boot, just run the commands below:

sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl enable php56-php-fpm
sudo systemctl enable php72-php-fpm

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