Nginx – How to install different extensions when using multiple PHP versions

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I have the following setup : Centos 6.4, Apache set up to work with WHM/ cpanel with it's version of PHP (5.4) and nginx running a separate version of PHP to handle everything else.

How can I do a yum install for some php extensions ? If i just type the command it will install it for the apache php, right ?

Sorry if it's a noob question, but I'm new at this.

Thanks in advance!

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Found the answer for this one :

I downloaded the PHP version that I had installed with cpxstack and built every module that i needed from that source. At first I had an issue with the .so being built against the newer version of PHP and after a little search I found that I had to run the config command with the correct PHP version

    .configure --with-php-config=/opt/pifpm/php-5.3.26/bin/php-config

and then make

Don't use make install because it will try to install it in a different folder. Just copy/paste the resulting .so in the php extensions folder and activate them through php ini. Some modules, like APC hava a different installation process, but you can find that on the cpxstack wiki page.

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How to Upgrade to the Latest PHP Version in CentOS Using Yum

I followed the instructions from Install Apache/PHP 5.4.10 on Fedora 17/16, CentOS/RHEL 6.3/5.8 with a slight modification. It took maybe 10min. My exact commands are shown below. Note that the first command had to be changed from what is shown in the article. The change was from epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm to epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm.

How to add a repo that provides PHP 5.4 into yum?

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

Can this seamlessly replace the current PHP version in CentOS? For me the following commands worked and none of my existing PHP web pages broke. Your mileage may vary.

yum --enablerepo=remi install httpd php php-common
yum --enablerepo=remi install php-pecl-apc php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysql php-pgsql php-pecl-mongo php-sqlite php-pecl-memcache php-pecl-memcached php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml
service httpd restart

How can I switch back to the official repo when it supports PHP5.4? I have not tested the commands to remove and re-install PHP from CentOS repositories, but these should work.

# Remove the Remi packages. Note the reversed command order
yum remove php-pecl-apc php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysql php-pgsql php-pecl-mongo php-sqlite php-pecl-memcache php-pecl-memcached php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml
yum  remove httpd php php-common
# Install the CentOS packages. 
yum install httpd php php-common
yum install php-pecl-apc php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysql php-pgsql php-pecl-mongo php-sqlite php-pecl-memcache php-pecl-memcached php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml

Will there be any potential to break PHP modules I [sic] currently using? Yes. Using a recent version of CentOS (6.2?) with Zend installed using the Zend installer, the above upgrade broke Zend.

All the above commands were run as root. Best practice is to login as a non-privileged user and use sudo. (This is a development VM with a current snapshot...)

Also, do NOT enable the Remi repository by default - in the past I got clever and enabled it by default and things broke, even with repository priority.

Centos – How to install SOAP extension on PHP-FPM 5.5.6 – dependency issue

Read the output carefully again:

Installed: php-common-5.5.5-2.el6.remi.x86_64 (@remi-php55)

Using

yum --enablerepo=remi-php55 install php-soap

should help. Check this link.

And please do not try to install Fedora packages on CentOS.

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