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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:49 PM, James Dugger <
james.dugger@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Yeah manage them separately on different VM's or containers. I try to
> spec my VM's out as close to the production server's specs as possible to
> try and minimize the "Well, it worked on my system" syndrome. That means
> potentially dozens of different settings and versions all down the LAMP
> stack to and including the Linux operating system. This could mean a lot
> of different instances. This is why I got familiar with Vagrant. Or even
> easier learn Docker and build containers. They are fast and very efficient.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 6:13 PM, JD Austin <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
>
>> 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@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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>>> Keith Smith
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