Install multiple php version in localhost

In this article i will show you how to install multiple php version in localhost (php 5.3.29 and php5.5.0).

To install multiple php in your machine, wee need PHPFarm and FastCGI.

Let’s make it!

Pre-requisite

First, install apache and php (if you don’t have).

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5

Update your machine

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libmysqlclient-dev

Git

sudo apt-get install git

Phpfarm

cd /opt
sudo git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/phpfarm/code phpfarm

After install it, will created a folder “phpfarm” inside /opt/ like this :

Compile PHP

Create 2 file inside phpfarm/src
a) custom-options-5.3.29.sh and copy this script :

#gcov='--enable-gcov'
configoptions="\
--enable-bcmath \
--enable-calendar \
--enable-exif \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-pcntl \
--enable-soap \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-sqlite-utf8 \
--enable-wddx \
--enable-zip \
--disable-debug \
--with-mysql \
--with-zlib \
--with-gettext \
--with-pdo-mysql \
--with-curl \
--with-openssl \
$gcov"

b) custom-options-5.5.0.sh and copy the following script :

#gcov='--enable-gcov'
configoptions="\
--enable-bcmath \
--with-mysqli \
--with-curl \
--with-png \
--with-gd \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--enable-calendar \
--enable-exif \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-pcntl \
--enable-soap \
--with-pdo-mysql \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-sqlite-utf8 \
--enable-wddx \
--enable-zip \
--with-openssl \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-zlib \
--with-gettext \
--with-mcrypt \
$gcov"

Now, compile php 5.3.29 and 5.5.0
*This will take a several minutes

cd /opt/phpfarm/src
sudo ./compile.sh 5.3.29
sudo ./compile.sh 5.5.0

After installed, you can see two new folder “php-5.3.29” and “php-5.5.0” :

And link executable inside /opt/phpfarm/inst/bin/ :

Install & Enable FastCGI

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-fastcgi apache2-mpm-worker apache2-suexec
sudo a2enmod actions fastcgi suexec
sudo service apache2 restart

Create folder cgi-bin:

cd /var/www/html/
sudo mkdir cgi-bin

Create file “php-5.3.29” inside /var/www/html/cgin-bin/ and copy the following script :

#!/bin/sh
PHPRC="/etc/php5/cgi/5.3.29/"
export PHPRC
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-5.3.29

Create file “php-5.5.0” inside /var/www/html/cgin-bin/ and copy the following script :

#!/bin/sh
PHPRC="/etc/php5/cgi/5.5.0/"
export PHPRC
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-5.5.0

Make the file executable

sudo chmod +x /var/www/html/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.3.29
sudo chmod +x /var/www/html/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.5.0

Configure virtualhost

Create file “virtualhost.conf” :

cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
sudo vi virtualhost.conf

Paste this script to virtualhost.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName php53.localhost
	DocumentRoot /var/www/html/php53
	FastCgiServer /var/www/html/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.3.29
	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin-php/ /var/www/html/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/var/www/html/php53/">
		AddHandler php-cgi .php
		Action php-cgi /cgi-bin-php/php-cgi-5.3.29
		<FilesMatch "\.php$">
			SetHandler php-cgi
		</FilesMatch>
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName php55.localhost
	DocumentRoot /var/www/html/php55
	FastCgiServer /var/www/html/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.5.0
	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin-php/ /var/www/html/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/var/www/html/php55/">
		AddHandler php-cgi .php
		Action php-cgi /cgi-bin-php/php-cgi-5.5.0
		<FilesMatch "\.php$">
			SetHandler php-cgi
		</FilesMatch>
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Create two folder “php53” & “php55” :

Create a file index.php, copy script below and put to folder “php53” & “php55” :

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Add Subdomain

Edit file :

sudo vi /etc/hosts/

Add the line :

127.0.0.1 localhost php53.localhost php55.localhost

RESULT

reference : https://gist.github.com/gmodarelli/5887778