Problem with multiple PHP versions

Please run

Code:

apt-get install libapache2-mod-fastcgi
a2enmod fastcgi
service apache2 restart

Maybe you will need to switch back and forth PHP-FPM in your web config but your issue here is that PHP-FPM requires fastcgi ( which is not the same as fcgi(d) ).

 

Great! it worked!!
i had to add
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free
to the sources.list in order to install libapache2-mod-fastcgi
thanks a lot!!

 

Sorry i didn't replied sooner.
I didn't got a email from the website there were any new reactions.

Anyway, I changed things the way you (and Till) advised but not so much luck on my side it is still not working.

I saw in /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log this error:
wo feb 24 22:53:03 CET 2016 PHP Warning: file_put_contents(/opt/php-7.0.3/etc/php-fpm/web1.conf): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/ispconfig/server/lib/classes/system.inc.php on line 791

So I think I didn't set it up right. I'm starting over again tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

 

Thank you Till.

No that directory did not exist. In the tutorial is says: cp /opt/php-7.0.3/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf.default /opt/php-7.0.3/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf thats why the /opt/php-7.0.3/etc/php-fpm.d/ directory exist but not /opt/php-7.0.3/etc/php-fpm/ i changed that and tried again if switching to php7-fpm worked but it stil doesn't want to work.

The error is gone from the cron log file except for this one: sh: chattr: opdracht niet gevonden (error not found)
I searched the apt cache for this program but as result it gives e2fslibs. wen i install this program it tells me i already have installed the latest version of this package.

 

Most of the time I copy/paste paths and commands from a tutorial to avoid mistakes but obviously something still went wrong. So I am going to destroy this virtual machine I used for this and start over again with a fresh ispconfig on debian 8 vps I have backed up. So I don't have to start completely over with installing Debian and ispconfig I can start right away with the php7-fpm tutorial. I pay extra attention to everything what has to be done because I really want to know what I did wrong before and I don't want to keep starting over.

Maybe I find out what I did wrong before.
I let you know if it worked or not.

 

Yess it works now
Can I install older php versions like php 5.3, 5.4, 5.6 also this way on Debian 8?

 

Should be possible, absolutely - even 5.2 with fpm-patch works, wouldn't reocommend since it's been 5years+ EOL but it works

 

Oke sweet. That is going to be my next goal. Thanks a lot for all your help! Really nice it works now.

 

I tried to add php 5.3.29. First i tried with the systemd way like we did php7 that did not work. Wen i switched to php5.3.29 it gave same problems as i before had with php7. Then i tried again this time with the init script instead of the systemd script. Also with the init way it does not work.

I installed php 5.3.29 the way it is explained in this tutorial but this is not the same as we installed php7. Should i go for the systemd way or the init script way to install php 5.3.29 ?

My goal is to install several older php versions besides the default php 5.6 and the additional php 7 wich already installed and works so i can keep my old websites running on my local ispconfig3 server.

 

I'd go with systemd only then - mixing up things is bad, soon you're asking yourself how to restart which service
What didn't work with the systemd way? Didn't it start at all? Have you adjusted the "### BEGIN INIT INFO" section aswell?
Does php 5.3 start when manually adding / starting pool / service?

 

I did change the init script to 5.3.29 and php 5.3.29 does start it just doesn't want to switch. wen i open the phpinfo() page i receive the same error as i got wen we started this thread exact the same problem.

Switching between the default and php 7 stil works perfectly now i wanted to complete my ispconfig server to add some older php version so i could keep on running some older website just for fun i want to keep them running for fun not production. and the higer php version i use for present and future websites.

But the multiple php versions tutorial is in few things different from the php 7 tutorial and i can't get my head eround what is exactly the difference it can't be a lot different because php5.3 does start is just isn't switching.

I would like to use systemd because thats the future i gues and i did try it the php7 way but that didn't work so i started over but then using the init script way wich also didn't work. I didn't want to ask for help again here but i have no clue how to go forward.

I setup a fresh backup again with default php 5.6 and additional php7 working so i can start over again. Some paths are different in the php7 and mulitple versions tutorial. That confuses me and probably thats the point were it goes wrong i think.

Would be nice if someone would write a mulitple php versions tutorial for windows 8, duh I meen Debian 8 offcourse, ispconfig servers. Including few older versions and also php7.

 

well I'm not going to make it on windows 8 ( typo? ) - but going to try what you want to achieve on a debian 8 test system.
I'll note down every steps and do some testing. I'll give you an update after this.

 

haha yes windows 8 is a typo should be Debian 8 ofcourse sorry about that i wil correct that.
Would be awesome if you would create that tutorial and you even going to send me update wen it is done geez realy great. I am looking forward to it !

Many thanks again!

 

OK, PHP 7 already working, note I added APCu extension. PHP 5.3 will follow shortly

This is for building PHP 7.0.4 on Debian 8 using systemd for PHP-fpm

Install build tools we need for compilation.
(The last command is needed if you build PHP with --with-imap, because otherwise ./configure will stop with the following error:
checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes
configure: error: Cannot find imap library (libc-client.a). Please check your c-client installation.

)

Code:

apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install libfcgi-dev libfcgi0ldbl libjpeg62-turbo-dbg libmcrypt-dev libssl-dev libc-client2007e libc-client2007e-dev libxml2-dev libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev libpng12-dev libfreetype6-dev libkrb5-dev libpq-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
ln -s /usr/lib/libc-client.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-client.a

Prepare folders and build dir.

Code:

mkdir /usr/local/src/php7-build
cd /usr/local/src/php7-build
wget http://de1.php.net/get/php-7.0.4.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror -O php-7.0.4.tar.bz2
tar jxf php-7.0.4.tar.bz2
cd php-7.0.4

Let's run a simple ./configure, check ./configure --help for available options if you want to customize it.

Code:

./configure --prefix=/opt/php-7.0.4 --with-pdo-pgsql --with-zlib-dir --with-freetype-dir --enable-mbstring --with-libxml-dir=/usr --enable-soap --enable-calendar --with-curl --with-mcrypt --with-zlib --with-gd --with-pgsql --disable-rpath --enable-inline-optimization --with-bz2 --with-zlib --enable-sockets --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-pcntl --enable-mbregex --enable-exif --enable-bcmath --with-mhash --enable-zip --with-pcre-regex --with-pdo-mysql --with-mysqli --with-mysql-sock=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-openssl --with-fpm-user=www-data --with-fpm-group=www-data --with-libdir=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-ftp --with-imap --with-imap-ssl --with-kerberos --with-gettext --with-xmlrpc --with-xsl --enable-opcache --enable-fpm

Time to make it.

Code:

make
make install

Copy php.ini and php-fpm.conf to the correct locations:

Code:

cp /usr/local/src/php7-build/php-7.0.4/php.ini-production /opt/php-7.0.4/lib/php.ini
cp /opt/php-7.0.4/etc/php-fpm.conf.default /opt/php-7.0.4/etc/php-fpm.conf
cp /opt/php-7.0.4/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf.default /opt/php-7.0.4/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

Making sure we get a PID
Modify /opt/php-7.0.4/etc/php-fpm.conf and uncomment

Code:

pid = run/php-fpm.pid

We need one active php-fpm process or service won't start - leading to issues when switching PHP versions.
Modify /opt/php-7.0.4/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

Code:

listen = 127.0.0.1:8974 ; choose an unused port

Create systemd unit file: /lib/systemd/system/php-7.0.4-fpm.service

Code:

[Unit]
Description=The PHP 7.0.4 FastCGI Process Manager
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
PIDFile=/opt/php-7.0.4/var/run/php-fpm.pid
ExecStart=/opt/php-7.0.4/sbin/php-fpm --nodaemonize --fpm-config /opt/php-7.0.4/etc/php-fpm.conf
ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR2 $MAINPID

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable .service and reload systemd

Code:

systemctl enable php-7.0.4-fpm.service
systemctl daemon-reload
            

Customize your /opt/php-7.0.4/lib/php.ini

Code:

; check wether you or your customers need short open tags
short_open_tag = On

; check wether you like the outside to know which php version you're running
expose_php = Off

; we didn't do a debug build
report_memleaks = Off

; UTF-8 rocks, just keep in mind that some websites still use some other charsets and you may want to
; overwrite this in ISPConfig website options php-section if you have issues with special charsets
default_charset = "UTF-8"

; if you want zend opcode caching go near
; Dynamic Extensions ;
; section and add
zend_extension=opcache.so

; choose a default timzeone for and uncomment date.timezone - right above you see a link
; for other timezones to choose from
date.timezone = "Europe/Berlin"

; choose mail.log function to track mails from php mail() function, it can help to track
; scripts inserted on hacked sites or other abuses
mail.log = /var/log/phpmail7.log

; It is disabled by default for maximum compatibility, but enabling it is encouraged.
; https://wiki.php.net/rfc/strict_sessions
session.use_strict_mode = 1

; if you need more possible session ids, also could make session guessing a few bits harder
; check the comments near the configuration options within .ini file
session.hash_function = 1
session.hash_bits_per_character = 6

; if you enabled zend_extension=opcache.so adjust at least the following settings
opcache.enable=1
opcache.use_cwd=1 ; make sure it's enabled if you host more than one site using this php version
opcache.revalidate_path=1
; other options as you like

Test your installation. It should output something like
PHP 7.0.4 (cli) (built: Mar 10 2016 23:08:13) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies

Code:

/opt/php-7.0.4/bin/php --version
                        

Enable this version: Log in to your ISPConfig and go to
System > Additional PHP Versions
Add new PHP version
No need to select a customer.
Set PHP Name to something you want - suggesting: PHP 7

# if you need PHP by CGI go to FastCGI tab

Path to the PHP FastCGI binary: /opt/php-7.0.4/bin/php-cgi
Path to the php.ini directory: /opt/php-7.0.4/lib

# for PHP-FPM go to PHP-FPM tab

# just add the filename for systemd usage without .service extension:
Path to the PHP-FPM init script: php-7.0.4-fpm
Path to the php.ini directory: /opt/php-7.0.4/lib
Path to the PHP-FPM pool directory: /opt/php-7.0.4/etc/php-fpm.d


If you need APC usercache compatibility we can add APCu

Code:

apt-get install autoconf
cd /usr/local/src/php7-build
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/apcu-5.1.3.tgz
tar xf apcu-5.1.3.tgz
cd apcu-5.1.3
/opt/php-7.0.4/bin/phpize
./configure --with-php-config=/opt/php-7.0.4/bin/php-config
make
make install
                        

Enable APCu in your /opt/php-7.0.4/lib/php.ini

Code:

; near Dynamic Extensions ; section add
extension=apcu.so
apc.enabled=1
apc.shm_size=32M ; if you are on a virtual server, check your /proc/user_beancounters, shared memory is often limited
apc.ttl=7200
apc.enable_cli=0

                        

Check APCu installation

Code:

/opt/php-7.0.4/bin/php -i | grep apc
                        

Start PHP 7.0.4

Code:

systemctl start php-7.0.4-fpm.service
systemctl status php-7.0.4-fpm.service

 

This is for old unsupported PHP 5.3.29 on Debian 8 using systemd.
Note there are two additional requirements which are not needed for PHP 7, so be as careful as for the previous part.
And again, I added APC ( with opcode caching, hence the missing u after APC ).

Switched back and forth betwen default,7,5.3 in random order, worked like a charm

Install build tools we need for compilation.

Code:

apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install libfcgi-dev libfcgi0ldbl libjpeg62-turbo-dbg libmcrypt-dev libssl-dev libc-client2007e libc-client2007e-dev libxml2-dev libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev libpng12-dev libfreetype6-dev libkrb5-dev libpq-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
ln -s /usr/lib/libc-client.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-client.a
apt-get install libxpm-dev libmysqlclient-dev

Prepare folders and build dir.

Code:

# we need this or we can't find freetype.h easily :(
mkdir /usr/include/freetype2/freetype
ln -s /usr/include/freetype2/freetype.h /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h


mkdir /usr/local/src/php53-build
cd /usr/local/src/php53-build
wget http://de1.php.net/get/php-5.3.29.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror -O php-5.3.29.tar.bz2
tar jxf php-5.3.29.tar.bz2
cd php-5.3.29

Let's run a simple ./configure, check ./configure --help for available options if you want to customize it.

Code:

./configure --prefix=/opt/php-5.3.29 --with-pdo-pgsql --with-zlib-dir --with-freetype-dir --enable-mbstring --with-libxml-dir=/usr --enable-soap --enable-calendar --with-curl --with-mcrypt --with-zlib --with-gd --with-pgsql --disable-rpath --enable-inline-optimization --with-bz2 --with-zlib --enable-sockets --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-pcntl --enable-mbregex --enable-exif --enable-bcmath --with-mhash --enable-zip --with-pcre-regex --with-mysql --with-pdo-mysql --with-mysqli --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-openssl --with-fpm-user=www-data --with-fpm-group=www-data --with-libdir=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-ftp --with-imap --with-imap-ssl --with-kerberos --with-gettext --with-xmlrpc --with-xsl --enable-fpm  --with-xpm-dir=/usr

Time to make it.

Code:

make
make install
mkdir /opt/php-5.3.29/etc/pool.d

Copy php.ini and php-fpm.conf to the correct locations:

Code:

cp /usr/local/src/php53-build/php-5.3.29/php.ini-production /opt/php-5.3.29/lib/php.ini
cp /usr/local/src/php53-build/php-5.3.29/sapi/fpm/php-fpm.conf /opt/php-5.3.29/etc/php-fpm.conf

Making sure we get a PID
Modify /opt/php-5.3.29/etc/php-fpm.conf and uncomment

Code:

pid = run/php-fpm.pid

We need one active php-fpm process or service won't start - leading to issues when switching PHP versions.
Also we need PHP to tell from where to include additional conf files
Modify /opt/php-5.3.29/etc/php-fpm.conf

Code:

listen = 127.0.0.1:8953 ; choose an unused port
include=/opt/php-5.3.29/etc/pool.d/*.conf

Create /lib/systemd/system/php-5.3.29-fpm.service

Code:

[Unit]
Description=The PHP 5.3.29 FastCGI Process Manager
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
PIDFile=/opt/php-5.3.29/var/run/php-fpm.pid
ExecStart=/opt/php-5.3.29/sbin/php-fpm --nodaemonize --fpm-config /opt/php-5.3.29/etc/php-fpm.conf
ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR2 $MAINPID

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable .service and reload systemd

Code:

systemctl enable php-5.3.29-fpm.service
systemctl daemon-reload
            

Customize your /opt/php-5.3.29/lib/php.ini

Code:

; check wether you or your customers need short open tags
short_open_tag = On

; check wether you like the outside to know which php version you're running
expose_php = Off

; we didn't do a debug build
report_memleaks = Off

; UTF-8 rocks, just keep in mind that some websites still use some other charsets and you may want to
; overwrite this in ISPConfig website options php-section if you have issues with special charsets
default_charset = "UTF-8"

; choose a default timzeone for and uncomment date.timezone - right above you see a link
; for other timezones to choose from
date.timezone = "Europe/Berlin"

; choose mail.log function to track mails from php mail() function, it can help to track
; scripts inserted on hacked sites or other abuses
mail.log = /var/log/phpmail53.log

; if you need more possible session ids, also could make session guessing a few bits harder
; check the comments near the configuration options within .ini file
session.hash_function = 1
session.hash_bits_per_character = 6

; other options as you like

Test your installation. It should output something like
PHP 5.3.29 (cli) (built: Mar 11 2016 01:02:53)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies

Code:

/opt/php-5.3.29/bin/php --version
                        

Enable this version: Log in to your ISPConfig and go to
System > Additional PHP Versions
Add new PHP version
No need to select a customer.
Set PHP Name to something you want - suggesting: PHP 5.3

# if you need PHP by CGI you have to compile again without --enable-fpm but with --enable-cgi
# so no FastCGI option this time

# for PHP-FPM go to PHP-FPM tab

# just add the filename for systemd usage without .service extension:
Path to the PHP-FPM init script: php-5.3.29-fpm
Path to the php.ini directory: /opt/php-5.3.29/lib
Path to the PHP-FPM pool directory: /opt/php-5.3.29/etc/pool.d



If you need APC opcode and usercache we can add APC

Code:

apt-get install autoconf
cd /usr/local/src/php53-build
wget https://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.1.13.tgz
tar xf APC-3.1.13.tgz
cd APC-3.1.13
/opt/php-5.3.29/bin/phpize
./configure --with-php-config=/opt/php-5.3.29/bin/php-config
make
make install
                        

Enable APC in your /opt/php-5.3.29/lib/php.ini

Code:

; near Dynamic Extensions ; section add
extension=apc.so
apc.enabled=1
apc.shm_size=32M ; if you are on a virtual server, check your /proc/user_beancounters, shared memory is often limited
apc.ttl=7200
apc.enable_cli=0
apc.cache_by_default=1

                        

Check APC installation

Code:

/opt/php-5.3.29/bin/php -i | grep apc
                        

Start PHP 5.3.29

Code:

systemctl start php-5.3.29-fpm.service
systemctl status php-5.3.29-fpm.service

 

Unreal man you are lightning fast. I didn't expect you posted it this fast. Sunday night or Monday I'm going to install 5.3.29 and let you know how it went.

I am sure lots of others will be thankful as i am you wrote this comprehensive tutorial how to install the old php 5.3.29 version on debian 8.

Thank you a million!

 

nah, I used the linked tutorials ( e.g. official howtos from howtoforge ) above as a base... just made few adjustments for the 5.3.29 version
Hope it'll work for you, too - I didn't test rebooting the server yet, but I don't see why this shouldn't work

You also might want to add https://suhosin.org/stories/install.html

To ensure only .php extensions are parsed ( for example bug in configuration for nginx or extended security ) you might want to change

/usr/local/ispconfig/server/conf/php_fpm_pool.conf.master

Code:

security.limit_extensions = .php

This is expecting a whitespace seperated list if you need to allow multiple extensions.
Add this somewhere at the end or outside any <...if...> statements

 

Halfway the 5.3.29 tutorial there is a empty code thingy is this a mistake or a missing configuration?
Sadly i'm going away for few days tomorrow afternoon but i will definitely let you know how it went wen i installed php 5.3.29 wen i am back.

I am also happy with the extra explanations you wrote in the tutorial I understand a little better how it works.

Great weekend!