How To Install And Activate CloudLinux's PHP Selector

Introduction

CloudLinux's PHP Selector offers similar functionalities to cPanel's MultiPHP Manager, but offers more customization to the individual user, as well as legacy versions of PHP not offered by MultiPHP Manager. PHP Selector can be used on individual accounts while others remain using MutliPHP Manager.

Requirements

• CloudLinux is installed
• CageFS is installed and enabled for users intending to use PHP Selector
• Apache's PHP handler is cgi, suPHP or fcgi
•  mod_suexec is installed

CloudLinux has documentation for PHP Selector's requirements available here:

CloudLinux Documentation: General Requirements for PHP Selector

Procedure

The alt-php packages can be installed with a single command. You should also ensure CloudLinux's primary packages are up to date.

On RHEL 7 Operating Systems run the following:

yum groupinstall alt-php

yum update cagefs lvemanager

On CloudLinux, Almalinux, and Rocky Linux 8 or 9, run the following:

dnf groupinstall alt-php

dnf update cagefs lvemanager

Now that this has been installed, navigate to WHM's "WHM / Software / MultiPHP Manager" and ensure any users you intend to use PHP Selector with have PHP-FPM disabled and are configured to "inherit" the system PHP version.

Once complete, you should now have access to "Select PHP Version" in cPanel.

Additional Resources

For more information on how to configure PHP Selector on your CloudLinux server, known compatibility issues, and other platform-specific information, please see CloudLinux's documentation:

CloudLinux Documentation: PHP Selector