Running PHP 4 and 5 in parallel

[Rob T]

Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but is there a good how-to anywhere on how to do this? I'd like to be running both php4 and php5 on our servers, and if this can be done easily with lsapi that would be great! However, I can't find any documentation on how to accomplish this in the forums or in the wiki. Ideas?

[mistwang]

You need to compile your own PHP5 LSAPI binary, then duplicate the existing configuration for PHP4, just make sure the script handler is for ".php5" suffix.

[Rob T]

I understand the concepts involved, I was wondering if there was more of a "step-by-step how-to" that existed anywhere that would speed up the learning curve a bit for someone who doesn't spend much time compiling software at the command line.

If I end up diving in and giving it a shot, perhaps I'll write something up to make it easier for others in the future.

[mistwang]

Step by step wiki for compiling your own PHP binary is available
http://www.litespeedtech.com/support...wiki:php:lsapi

You don't need to replace the old php binary, just name the php binary as "lsphp5" instead of "lsphp".

Once you get the lsphp5 binary, just duplicate the existing server level php external app configuration and php script handler configuration, that's pretty easy.

You are welcome to add your step by step guide to our wiki if you do write something.

[clarocque]

Did anyone end up doing a step by step for this?

With my very limited experience with server stuff - I seem to get along up to the part about php.ini in the WIKI instructions. I sem to only have one ini file for php4???

Anyone have any thoughts?

Chris

[mistwang]

You can creat a php.ini for php5, like something at lsws/php5/php.ini.