Install PHP-7.0 alongside PHP-5.5 on Ubuntu 14.04

By Phil Frilling, 6 December, 2016

Today I needed to install PHP7-fpm while keeping the default PHP5.5-fpm installed on an Ubuntu 14.04 server. I followed this tutorial: http://www.tecmint.com/install-php7-for-apache-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04/ To recap:

Add the php repository and update:


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update

Install php and required modules:


sudo apt-get install php7.0
sudo apt-get install php7.0-fpm
sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql php7.0-cli php7.0-gd php7.0-json

Then, in the vhost I needed php7, I added the following code:



    Alias /php-fcgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php7
    AddHandler php .php
    Action php /php-fcgi
    FastCgiExternalServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php7 -socket /var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock -pass-header Authorization -idle-timeout 600
    
      AllowOverride All
      Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
      Require all granted

After restarting apache and php7-fpm, the site began running under php7. The other vhost on the server is still using the default php5.5 provided by the ubuntu packaging.

Install PHP-7.0 alongside PHP-5.5 on Ubuntu 14.04

Add the php repository and update:

Install php and required modules:

Then, in the vhost I needed php7, I added the following code:

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