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Written by Rahul, Updated on June 27, 2018

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PHP Installation
For the installation of PHP versions, we use the
PPA maintained here. Use the below couple of
commands to add the PPA to your system.

$ sudo apt install python-software-properties

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

For this tutorial, I used the PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.2
to configure with Nginx web server. To use the
multiple PHP versions, we will use PHP FPM and
FastCGI. Let’s install the following packages on
your system.

$ apt update
$ sudo apt install php5.6 php5.6-fpm
$ sudo apt install php7.2 php7.2-fpm

You may also need to install additional PHP

modules. For the tutorial only above packages
are required.

After installation, php-fpm services will be

started automatically. Use the following
commands to make sure both services are
running.

$ sudo systemctl status php5.6-fpm

$ sudo systemctl status php7.2-fpm

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Install Nginx web server available in official

Ubuntu repository. Launch terminal on your
system or login with ssh for remote systems.
Execute the following commands to install the
latest available version of Nginx web server.

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install nginx

Nginx Configuration
Get ready for the configuration of websites in
Nginx server. For the testing purpose, I am
configuring two websites to work with two
different-2 PHP versions. First, create two
directories on your server.

$ sudo mkdir /var/www/php56

$ sudo mkdir /var/www/php72

Now, create and index.php containing the

phpinfo() function.

$ echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/php56/index.p

$ echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/php72/index.p

After that create server blocks for both sites on

Nignx. The latest version of Nginx keeps the
server block configuration files under
/etc/nginx/sites-available directory. Create a file
for the first virtual host and edit in your favorite
text editor.


$ sudo
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Add the following content. Make sure to use

correct ServerName and directory path
according to your setup. This website is
configured to work with PHP 5.6.

# Application with PHP 5.6

#
server {
listen 80;

root /var/www/php56;
index index.php;
server_name php56.example.com;

location ~* \.php$ {
# With php-fpm unix sockets
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php5.6
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $d
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $f
}
}

Similarly, create a second VirtualHost

configuration file to work with PHP 7.2. Edit
configuration file in text editor:

$ sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/php72.example.c

Add the following content to file with proper

ServerName and DocumentRoot.

# Application with PHP 7.2

#
server {
listen 80;

root /var/www/php72;
index
We use cookies index.php;
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# With php-fpm unix sockets

fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $d
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $f
}
}

All right, You have created both websites in your

Nginx. But they are still not active. Nginx keeps
active sites under /etc/nignx/sites-enabled
directory. You can simply create a symbolic link
for both config files to this directory or use
below command to do the same.

$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/php56.example
$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/php72.example

After making all the changes restart Nginx to

reload new settings changes.

$ sudo systemctl restart nginx.service

Your setup has been completed now. Go to next

step to test your setup.

Test Setup
All done. You can access both sites in your
favirote web browser . You will see that
php56.example.com shows the version PHP 5.6
and php72.example.com is showing the PHP 7.2
as the configuration. 

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Congratulation’s, You system is ready to host

websites with different PHP versions. Happy
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5 COMMENTS

NURLAN  REPLY TO NURLAN

February 19, 2019 at 11:58 am
Thank you!! works for me.

NURLAN  REPLY TO NURLAN

February 19, 2019 at 11:38 am
how to open multiple php versions if i dont have dns…
opening only one default page.

MORPHEUS  REPLY TO MORPHEUS

October 12, 2018 at 9:57 pm
Nice tutorial. To extend it a little bit, how can we have
two versions of php also in the cli? if you use
composer, for example, the cli will say default version
php7.2 but actually you need for that certain project to
use php5. An answer is super appreciated.

RAHUL K.  REPLY TO RAHUL

October 15, 2018 at 7:49 am 
You can define any php version with
composer command as :
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/usr/bin/php5.6 /usr/local/bin/composer help
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/usr/bin/php7.2 /usr/local/bin/composer help

PAOLO  REPLY TO PAOLO

October 5, 2018 at 1:34 pm
Thanks excellent guide..I was looking for a long time
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