using PHP 5.6 and PHP 7 on same web server

[JD Austin]

I typically use virtual machines for this because the production
environment won't have both versions and the interdependence issues you can
run into having conflicting packages from both versions of PHP can be
infuriating.  Make a VM with PHP 5.6, get the app working, clone the VM,
upgrade PHP to version 7, fix whatever issues you have to, have your
firewall port forward to each VM.

JD

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
wrote:

>
> Interesting approach!!  Thank you for your feedback!!
>
>
> On 2016-09-27 09:41, Matt Graham wrote:
>
>> On 2016-09-26 20:24, Keith Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I need to test using PHP 5.6 and PHP 7. I have a computer that I will
>>> be configuring as a test server.  I will make [it] public facing
>>> periodically - just for testing and for a short time.  I want to use
>>> Ubuntu 16.4.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to configure one server to give access to two
>>> different versions of PHP, possibly by some Apache config?
>>>
>>
>> I tried to have apache load modules for PHP 5.6 and 7 at the same time
>> and got segfaults for my trouble.  It's probably also not possible to
>> associate .php files with both versions of the module at the same
>> time.
>>
>> That said, there's probably a reasonable way to make this work.  Copy
>> the apache config that's currently working to a separate directory,
>> like /etc/httpd2/ .  Go into that dir and change the Listen port to
>> something other than 80, like 81.  Change the PHP configuration such
>> that it loads the PHP 7 module instead of the 5.6 module.  Change the
>> ServerRoot to /etc/httpd2 .  Change the PidFile to run/httpd2.pid .
>> Fix the Log directives such that httpd2 isn't writing to the same log
>> files as the first httpd.  Then you can start this alternate apache up
>> with "apachectl -f /etc/httpd2/conf/httpd.conf", and view how
>> everything looks in PHP 7 on http://servername:81/whatever.php .  (Or
>> there'll be something I've forgotten, and it'll barf and write stuff
>> to the error log....)
>>
>> This is kind of a pain, but it should work properly for testing stuff.
>>
>
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