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php 7 and php 7.1 running with php 5.6

digitaliway
I am running WHM 60.35 with cloud linux and easy apache 4. when running easy apache 4 I have php 5.5 and 5.6 running but I see 7.0 and 7.1 available to install but not currently installed. I would like to start testing php7 for certain sites by selectively enabling but I do not want to break existing sites or cause a bunch of work / performance loss getting both version to function so I am seeking advice. THREE QUESTIONS: 1.) can I enable via Easy Apache 4 - php 7.0 and 7.1 while keeping 5.5 and 5.6 for old sites? 2.) do I need to enable php 7.0 if I just enable 7.1 is 7.1 backward compatible to 7.0 3.) if this is all possible to run 5.6 and 7.0 as select-able versions is there a performance loos on the server in doing this?

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  • JacobPerkins
    Hi, 1> Yes, EA4 nativally supports multiple PHP verisons, so you can keep those sites on PHP 56 and run PHP 70 && PHP71 on different sites.
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  • digitaliway
    thanks for the reply. Do you have PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 running in your environment? if so did you have any quarks/issues that you had to work through? do you know of any increased server load or performance issues with running both php 5.6 and php7.0 side by side?
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  • JacobPerkins
    Howdy, I have PHP54, PHP55, PHP56, PHP70 and PHP71 available on my personal machine, available to all of the clients (friends) on my system. There are no performance issues with running multiple PHP versions. If a script didn't work on a PHP version, I researched the available requirements for the script and adjusted it to the use proper PHP version in the MultiPHP Manager in cPanel. Easy peasy. I hope this helps!
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  • caisc
    Dont know why cpanel is working on multiple PHP versions system when there is already Cloudlinux for this purpose. Also Cloudlinux is your close partner, whats the benefit of putting in resources to develop a solution that is already available.
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  • ribo
    Dont know why cpanel is working on multiple PHP versions system when there is already Cloudlinux for this purpose. Also Cloudlinux is your close partner, whats the benefit of putting in resources to develop a solution that is already available.

    There are many people that use and other OS, not only Cloudlinux .
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  • JacobPerkins
    Dont know why cpanel is working on multiple PHP versions system when there is already Cloudlinux for this purpose. Also Cloudlinux is your close partner, whats the benefit of putting in resources to develop a solution that is already available.

    Only a small percentage of cPanel servers are running CloudLinux.
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  • geotex
    Howdy, I have PHP54, PHP55, PHP56, PHP70 and PHP71 available on my personal machine, available to all of the clients (friends) on my system. There are no performance issues with running multiple PHP versions. If a script didn't work on a PHP version, I researched the available requirements for the script and adjusted it to the use proper PHP version in the MultiPHP Manager in cPanel. Easy peasy. I hope this helps!

    All these versions do not seem to be available to use at the same time in Easy Apache 4. The only option I see on our server is for 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1. However I do have a godaddy cpanel account that has from 5.4 through 7.1. Can I add the 7.0 and 7.1 without losing the 5.4 and 5.5 versions? if so, best recommended method?
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  • geotex
    All these versions do not seem to be available to use at the same time in Easy Apache 4. The only option I see on our server is for 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1. However I do have a godaddy cpanel account that has from 5.4 through 7.1. Can I add the 7.0 and 7.1 without losing the 5.4 and 5.5 versions? if so, best recommended method?

    Walked thru Apache 4 and figured it out. Done, with all versions running and added updated Ruby support while at it.
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