Apache – How to Change PHP Version via .htaccess

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I've a Centos 7 with Apache, I want to compile php 7.0 and 5.6 and configure that as PHP-FPM.
How can I configure Apache to allow users to change php version using .htaccess?

Example .htaccess entry:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php7 .php

Best Answer

If you plan to use mod_php, you can't, because the directive that takes care of loading the module can't be used in .htaccess context.

If your server is using mod_proxy and mod_proxy_fcgi to access a php-fpm server with your desired php version, because this method makes httpd completely "agnostic" on which php version you may be using, all you have to do is tell your server to point to the appropiate php-fpm unix socket for php files:

<FilesMatch \.php>
    SetHandler proxy:unix:/path/to/app.sock|fcgi://localhost/
</FilesMatch>

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PHP – How to Change Apache2 PHP Version

Depending on your server, you should be looking at Apache, not PHP.

(For RHEL/CentOS) look at /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.ini

#
# PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it
# easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages.
#
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
#
# Causes the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension.
#
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php

You'll see that your PHP module is modules/libphp5.so.

AddHandler php5-script .php tells Apache to run PHP on any file with the extension .php.

If you are using an RPM based OS it's probably easier to uninstall (assuming you can do that) the current version of PHP, and reinstall the version you are looking for.

rpm -qa | grep php

will show you what version of PHP is currently installed.

Apache 2.4 with PHP-FPM .htaccess redirection

Your problem is that the .htaccess file is never read. .htaccess is only read after apache has determined that it needs to look for the resource requested on its local filesystem. You are however telling apache to forward the request to another process...

You will need to add the rewrites to your main config.

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Apache 2.4 with PHP-FPM .htaccess redirection

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