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I have two projects on the local server, one project is running PHP5.6 and the other one is running PHP7.0. Now would it be possible to enable these two versions based on the projects? I already tried adding AddHandler application/x-httpd-php7 .php in one of the project htaccess but it's not working. Currently, PHP7.0 and PHP5.6-fpm have already installed on the server. Below is the screenshot of the phpinfo().

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  • what's the output of your mod-enabled in your apache directory ? are you sure that you have both of php5.x and php7.0x enabled there ? Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 13:41
  • askubuntu.com/questions/50344/… this Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 13:42
  • Hi @HassanAhmed, only php7.0 and php5.6-fpm are enabled. When I enable php5.6 apache crashed. Maybe its confused what version to get. Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 13:49
  • Take a look at docker Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 14:07
  • have a look at this very well explained answer for debian / apache stackoverflow.com/questions/45033511/… Commented Feb 1, 2018 at 11:48

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I finally managed to run my two projects in FastCGI on different PHP versions, thanks to the guys from the PHP subreddit.

I uninstalled everything including Apache and started over again. Below are the steps I used to enable two versions of PHP on my local server. Btw, my computer is running on Linux Mint 18.

  1. Assuming you already installed Apache, created virtual host for the two projects and added the necessary PHP PPAs. Let's call the projects site56.local for PHP 5.6 and site70.local for PHP 7.0. Install php5.6-fpm and php7.0-fpm by running:

    sudo apt-get install php5.6-fpm
sudo apt-get install php7.0-fpm

  2. Create two files under /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ (honestly I don't know if this step is still necessary), and save:

    sudo nano /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php56-fcgi
sudo nano /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php70-fcgi

  3. Open the php56 conf file /etc/apache2/conf-available/php5.6-fpm.conf, add this config and save:

    <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
    AddHandler php56-fcgi .php
    Action php56-fcgi /php56-fcgi
    Alias /php56-fcgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php56-fcgi -socket /var/run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock -pass-header Authorization
    Action php70-fcgi /php70-fcgi
    Alias /php70-fcgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php70-fcgi -socket /var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock -pass-header Authorization
</IfModule>
<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
    Require all granted
</Directory>

  4. Now enable the new Apache config:

    sudo a2enconf php5.6-fpm

  5. If you installed php5.6 and php5.7, make sure you disable this two and restart Apache:

    sudo a2dismod php5.6 php7.0
sudo systemctl restart apache2

  6. Create a .htaccess file on the project that should run on php7.0 and add this handler:

    AddHandler php70-fcgi .php

  7. Now create a phpinfo file on the two projects and if you see something like this, then congratulations!

PS: Make sure you enable .htaccess in your apache2.conf or httpd.conf

site56.local/phpinfo.php:

site70.local/phpinfo.php:

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In case you want to have PHP 5.5.9 instead of PHP 5.6, then you need to install php5-fpm Also, the contents of the php5-fpm.conf file should be as in this link: pastebin.com/3UgdxNV7
I also had to run sudo apt-get install php5.6-mbstring php5.6-mcrypt php5.6-mysql php5.6-xml as described in the accepted answer here
I don't know if you even tried your solution properly step by step, because I'm getting this error when I restart Apache after enabling the php5.6-fpm conf Alias takes 1-2 arguments, a fakename and a realname, or a realname in a Location
it's really great! but i need for centos
Does anybody know if I can use mod_php for all virtualhosts by default, and php-fpm (of a different version) for a specific <Directory>? SetHandler should have a priority, but unfortunately does not work for me (PHP module always takes over).
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First of all, ensure all the PHP related configuration are disabled by running the following commands:

# ls -la /etc/apache2/conf-enabled | grep php

# ls -la /etc/apache2/mods-enabled | grep php

Set up a different version of PHP-FPM for a specific site:

Add the following line to your existing VirtualHost file.

Include "conf-available/php7.2-fpm.conf"

For example,

# vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/symfony.local.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName symfony.local

    Include "conf-available/php7.2-fpm.conf"

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/symfony.local/curr/public

    <Directory /var/www/symfony.local/curr/web>
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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I have both php7 and php5 installed on my local machine. but when I run "ls -la /etc/apache2/conf-enabled | grep php" as you suggested, I got empty output. Did I miss anything? thanks.
Empty output is the expected result. A list of available config and modules can be found here: "ls -l /etc/apache2/conf-available/" and "ls -l /etc/apache2/mods-available/"
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It doesn't work for debian 9 Stretch. It took me a while to firgure out what to do but at the end I found a solution which seems even easier :

sudo apt-get install php5.6-fpm

sudo apt-get install php7.0-fpm

sudo a2enconf php5.6-fpm

If you installed php5.6 and php5.7, make sure you disable this two and restart apache.

sudo a2dismod php5.6 php7.0

sudo systemctl restart apache2

At this point all of your sites must work on php 5.6.

For the sites who need php 7, add this line in the vhost :

ProxyPassMatch "^/(.*\.php(/.*)?)$" "unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock|fcgi://localhost/path/to/my/main/file"

It should do the trick :)

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I tried to implement Makubex's solution and it worked. There is just one problem I had with a newly installed LAMP and that was the fact that fastcgi was not enabled. I just installed php again using the following script and enabled fastcgi afterwards.

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-fastcgi php5.6-fpm php5.6 php5.6-dev php5.6-mcrypt php5.6-mbstring php5.6-mysql php5.6-zip php5.6-gd php5.6-xml php7.1-fpm libapache2-mod-fastcgi php7.1-fpm php7.1 php7.1-dev php7.1-mbstring php7.1-mysql php7.1-zip php7.1-gd php7.1-xml php7.1-curl php7.1-intl php7.1-json php7.1-mcrypt

And then:

a2enmod actions
a2enmod fastcgi

After this, the solution worked perfectly. I got the two above from Run multiple PHP version on the same server using php-fpm and xdebug on Ubuntu 16.04

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You can do this using .htaccess files

First You need to install requred FPM using

sudo apt install php7.2-fpm

Then run below command

sudo a2enmod actions alias proxy_fcgi fcgid

Then Restart Your server

sudo systemctl restart apache

Then do below changes in .htaccess file

 <FilesMatch \.php$>
   # Apache 2.4.10+ can proxy to unix socket
      SetHandler "proxy:unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock|fcgi://localhost/"
 </FilesMatch>

Here is example of running PHP 7.2 when PHP 5.6 is enabled

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Thanks! I got an error from curl "[ErrorException] Use of undefined constant CURLOPT_HTTPGET - assumed 'CURLOPT_HTTPGET' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) " So I ran sudo apt-get install php7.2-curl to fix and it seamed to work
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We have got this covered in case of PHP on Ubuntu + Nginx:

To change CLI PHP version

sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php7.2

To change Web PHP version

fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock

Where php7.2 can be replaced by the PHP version of your choice.

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There is lot of answers like this one which are inaccurates for two version of php living at the same time: the question said "I have two projects on the local server, one project is running PHP5.6 and the other one is running PHP7.0". With update-alternatives there are everywhere symbolic links (ln -fs) like /run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock -> /run/php/php-fpm.sock or /run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock -> /run/php/php-fpm.sock.
With ExecStartPost=....install /run/php/php-fpm.sock within /lib/systemd/system/php5.6-fpm.service and /lib/systemd/system/php8.2-fpm.service, ie pointing at the same path at the same time. Same for php binary of two versions.
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After trying to follow your directions I found a possibly easier way for the same result.

By adding the following line

ProxyPassMatch "^/php70project/.*\.php(/.*)?$" "fcgi://localhost:9070/var/www/" enablereuse=on

in the apache vhost configuration, you could change the php version inside the directory php70project in your vhost root /var/www to version 7 running as fastcgi.

The following approach for use with unix socket

ProxyPassMatch "^/php70project/.*\.php(/.*)?$" "unix:/var/run/php70fpm.sock|fcgi://localhost/var/www"

is not working as intended. Unfortunately i couldnt find the correct code to get this working but as there is no example for unix socket use with subfolder on that page https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy_fcgi.html it might just not be possible.

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This is made a lot harder by all of the linux package stuff muddying the process. The easy manual, system independent way:

Build your 2 versions of PHP from source. You'll have say libphp7.so and libphp5.so in your modules directory. Just run a separate httpd.conf file for each. I ran 5 and 7 for years:

httpd-php7.conf
httpd-php5.conf

then. just put your virtual hosts that can't run 7 in the php5 config and either start them manually at boot or create the rc.d files or whatever your system uses for startup.

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