Comments on: Running multiple php versions on a single Apache install

By: rod

rod — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:20:40 +0000

An alternative setup using PHP as CGI. You can run as many versions as you want on one address/port…

ScriptAlias /php-4/ “c:/php/4.4.9″
ScriptAlias /php-5/ “c:/php/5.3″

# default to php 5
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Action application/x-httpd-php “/php-5/php.exe”

# app that needs php 4

Action application/x-httpd-php “/php-4/php.exe”

By: giunta_gaetano

giunta_gaetano — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:09:09 +0000

@Hb: I only use one single PHPIniDir directive. It is used by the phpversion that is run as an Apache module. All the other php versions are running as cgi applications, and as such would ignore PHPIniDir anyway. For those, I use SetEnv PHPRC “path to ini file” instead, as you can see in my httpd.conf example. I have tried with apache 2.0 and 2.2, and I have had no problems so far…

By: Hb

Hb — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:37:21 +0000

In step 3 you mentioned that each php version should have it’s own php.ini file in the same directory as it’s php.exe. Sounds good, but how to tell those executables to use them and not to use %windir&%\php.ini?

My http.conf allows only one PHPIniDir. Defining another one in a VirtualHost gives: Only first PHPINIDir directive honored per configuration tree – subsequent ones ignored.

By: /home/kOoLiNuS

/home/kOoLiNuS — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:15:18 +0000

running multiple php versions on a single Apache install

This post is just a reminder to myself about the post by my pal Gaetano showing us all
how to run multiple php versions on a single Apache install
His tutorial is valid both on windows and *nix like systems. Have a good read and thanks to Gaetano !
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