This article is about how to install php-5.1, php-5.2 and php-5.3 on one server, and use them simultaneously
Based on CentOS, for Apache only
1. Enable rpmforge and epel yum repository
wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
2. Install php-5.1
CentOS/RHEL 5.x series have php-5.1 in box, simply install it with yum, eg:
sudo yum install php php-mysql php-mbstring php-mcrypt
Compile and install php 5.2 and 5.3 from source
For php 5.2 and 5.3, we can find many rpm packages on the Internet. However, they all conflict with the php which comes with CentOS, so, we’d better build and install them from soure, this is not difficult, the point is to install php at different location.
However, when install php as an apache module, we can only use one version of php at the same time. If we need to run different version of php on the same server, at the same time, for example, different virtual host may need different version of php. Fortunately, the cool FastCGI and PHP-FPM can help.
Build and install php-5.2 with fastcgi enabled
1) Install required dev packages
yum install gcc libxml2-devel bzip2-devel zlib-devel \
curl-devel libmcrypt-devel libjpeg-devel \
libpng-devel gd-devel mysql-devel
2) Compile and install
wget http://cn.php.net/get/php-5.2.17.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror
tar -xjf php-5.2.17.tar.bz2
cd php-5.2.17
./configure –prefix=/usr/local/php52 \
–with-config-file-path=/etc/php52 \
–with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php52/php.d \
–with-libdir=lib64 \
–with-mysql \
–with-mysqli \
–enable-fastcgi \
–enable-force-cgi-redirect \
–enable-mbstring \
–disable-debug \
–disable-rpath \
–with-bz2 \
–with-curl \
–with-gettext \
–with-iconv \
–with-openssl \
–with-gd \
–with-mcrypt \
–with-pcre-regex \
–with-zlib
make -j4 > /dev/null
sudo make install
sudo mkdir /etc/php52
sudo cp php.ini-recommended /etc/php52/php.ini
3) create a fastcgi wrapper script
create file /usr/local/php52/bin/fcgiwrapper.sh
#!/bin/bash
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=10000
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
exec /usr/local/php52/bin/php-cgi
chmod a+x /usr/local/php52/bin/fcgiwrapper.sh
Build and install php-5.3 with fpm enabled
wget http://cn.php.net/get/php-5.3.6.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror
tar -xjf php-5.3.6.tar.bz2
cd php-5.3.6
./configure –prefix=/usr/local/php53 \
–with-config-file-path=/etc/php53 \
–with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php53/php.d \
–enable-fpm \
–with-fpm-user=apache \
–with-fpm-group=apache \
–with-libdir=lib64 \
–with-mysql \
–with-mysqli \
–enable-mbstring \
–disable-debug \
–disable-rpath \
–with-bz2 \
–with-curl \
–with-gettext \
–with-iconv \
–with-openssl \
–with-gd \
–with-mcrypt \
–with-pcre-regex \
–with-zlib
make -j4 && sudo make install
sudo mkdir /etc/php53
sudo cp php.ini-production /etc/php53/php.ini
sed -i -e ‘s#php_fpm_CONF=\${prefix}/etc/php-fpm.conf#php_fpm_CONF=/etc/php53/php-fpm.conf#’ \
sapi/fpm/init.d.php-fpm
sudo cp sapi/fpm/init.d.php-fpm /etc/init.d/php-fpm
sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/php-fpm
sudo /sbin/chkconfig –add php-fpm
sudo /sbin/chkconfig php-fpm on
sudo cp sapi/fpm/php-fpm.conf /etc/php53/
Configue php-fpm
Edit /etc/php53/php-fpm.conf, change some settings. This step is mainly to uncomment some settings, you can adjust the value if you like.
pid = run/php-fpm.pid
listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
pm.start_servers = 10
pm.min_spare_servers = 5
pm.max_spare_servers = 20
Then, start fpm
sudo /etc/init.d/php-fpm start
Install and setup mod_fastcgi, mod_fcgid
sudo yum install libtool httpd-devel apr-devel
wget http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/mod_fastcgi-current.tar.gz
tar -xzf mod_fastcgi-current.tar.gz
cd mod_fastcgi-2.4.6
cp Makefile.AP2 Makefile
sudo make top_dir=/usr/lib64/httpd/ install
sudo sh -c “echo ‘LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so’ > /etc/httpd/conf.d/mod_fastcgi.conf”
yum install mod_fcgid
Setup and test virtual hosts
1) Add the following line to /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 web1.example.com web2.example.com web3.example.com
2) Create web document root and drop an index.php under it to show phpinfo
switch to user root, run
mkdir /var/www/fcgi-bin
for i in {1..3}; do
web_root=/var/www/web$i
mkdir $web_root
echo “<?php phpinfo(); ?>” > $web_root/index.php
done
Note: The empty /var/www/fcgi-bin directory is required, DO NOT REMOVE IT LATER
3) Create Apache config file(append to httpd.conf)
NameVirtualHost *:80
# module settings
# mod_fcgid
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
idletimeout 3600
processlifetime 7200
maxprocesscount 17
maxrequestsperprocess 16
ipcconnecttimeout 60
ipccommtimeout 90
</IfModule>
# mod_fastcgi with php-fpm
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
FastCgiExternalServer /var/www/fcgi-bin/php-fpm -host 127.0.0.1:9000
</IfModule>
# virtual hosts…
#################################################################
#1st virtual host, use mod_php, run php-5.1
#################################################################
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName web1.example.com
DocumentRoot “/var/www/web1”
<ifmodule mod_php5.c>
<FilesMatch \.php$>
AddHandler php5-script .php
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
<Directory “/var/www/web1”>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#################################################################
#2nd virtual host, use mod_fcgid, run php-5.2
#################################################################
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName web2.example.com
DocumentRoot “/var/www/web2”
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
FCGIWrapper /usr/local/php52/bin/fcgiwrapper.sh
</IfModule>
<Directory “/var/www/web2”>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#################################################################
#3rd virtual host, use mod_fastcgi + php-fpm, run php-5.3
#################################################################
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName web3.example.com
DocumentRoot “/var/www/web3”
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
ScriptAlias /fcgi-bin/ /var/www/fcgi-bin/
AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php
Action php5-fastcgi /fcgi-bin/php-fpm
</IfModule>
<Directory “/var/www/web3”>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
4) restart apache. visit the 3 sites respectly to view phpinfo
and validate the result. ie:
http://web1.example.com
http://web2.example.com
http://web3.example.com
If all OK, you can use one of the 3 virtual host as template to create new virtual host, with the desired php version.
References:
mod_fastcgi document
mod_fcgid document
php-fpm wiki
