[solved] Install PHP5.2 and PHP5.3 on dev laptop

Question

I have been using Arch for a few months now on my laptop and really enjoying it, but I am still a little confused about a few things when it comes to software versions.
I have a bunch of PHP apps that need to be updated to be PHP 5.3 comparable. So I would like to setup both PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3.
I have searched a lot assuming that I am not the first person that would have asked about this kind of setup, but failed to find anything that was Arch specific.
I have read about two ways of doing this on other distros.
One method involves setting up both version to be different CGI handlers in Apache and then setting the appropriate handler in your virtual hosts.
The second sets one version to use mod_php (php-apache) and the other as a CGI handler.
I have found both php version as packages and in AUR.
So, if I install both packages (php and php52) will there be any conflicts or problems or do I need to use the AUR packages and some how alter the install/configure scripts.
Additionally what would happen if I install one of the php modules EG: php-curl. Will the module work for both version.
I am currently leaning towards using mod_fcgid for both versions.
Thanks.
Last edited by NaX_sa (2011-03-08 22:08:47)

Answer 1

OK, I figured it out. I think this topic should probably be under "Creating & Modifying Packages" and it was probably a mistake on my part to have posted in this forum in the first place.
What I ended up doing was to rebuild the php52 package in community using ABS. This was my first time use ABS.
I followed the instruction on the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System
The only thing I did that was not in the wiki was to delete the src directory when I did a rebuild, else it tried to re-apply the patch's, it took multiple attempts to get the PKGBUILD correct and not conflicting with PHP 5.3.
What I ended up with was a PHP package that installed everything into /usr/local.
I dont know if the way I did it was correct or the best way, but it seems to work.
Personally I think it would be best if the current PHP52 package was created in such away that it did not conflict with the main PHP package since it is very common for a LAMP setup to have more than one PHP versions installed.
Here is my modified PKGBUILD if anybody is interested.
# Maintainer: Evangelos Foutras <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]>
pkgname=php52
pkgver=5.2.17
pkgrel=3
_suhosinver=5.2.16-0.9.7
pkgdesc='A high-level scripting language'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('PHP')
url='http://www.php.net'
backup=('usr/local/etc/php/php.ini')
depends=('glibc' 'readline' 'ncurses' 'libxml2' 'pcre')
makedepends=('apache' 'imap' 'postgresql-libs' 'libmysqlclient'
'libldap' 'postfix' 'libpng' 'libjpeg' 'sqlite3' 'unixodbc'
'net-snmp' 'mhash' 'gmp' 'libmcrypt' 'tidyhtml' 'aspell' 'libtool'
'freetype2' 'curl' 'libxslt' 'pam' 'openssl' 'bzip2' 'gdbm' 'db')
optdepends=('bzip2: bz2'
'curl: curl'
'gdbm: dba'
'libpng: gd'
'libjpeg: gd'
'freetype2: gd'
'pam: imap'
'libldap: ldap'
'libmcrypt: mcrypt'
'libtool: mcrypt'
'libmysqlclient: mysql/mysqli/pdo_mysql'
'unixodbc: odbc/pdo_odbc'
'openssl: openssl'
'postgresql-libs: pgsql/pdo_pgsql'
'aspell: pspell'
'net-snmp: snmp'
'sqlite3: pdo_sqlite'
'tidyhtml: tidy'
'libxslt: xsl'
'mhash: mhash'
'gmp: gmp')
provides=("php=$pkgver")
#conflicts=('php')
source=("http://php.net/distributions/php-${pkgver}.tar.bz2"
"http://download.suhosin.org/suhosin-patch-${_suhosinver}.patch.gz"
'php.ini'
'apache.conf'
'db-configure.patch'
'db-5.patch'
'libpng14.patch')
md5sums=('b27947f3045220faf16e4d9158cbfe13'
'd815fc99a0c25c21f5df28551fcbb001'
'55c09c89e34eb5c555d842a4d01590e6'
'96ca078be6729b665be8a865535a97bf'
'f3da248d934bc99354fdfa98cdac23ad'
'40f3d5f546087dac33bfa21a85b79203'
'77ea0756996df0932fce472ff3ec2693')
build() {
phpconfig="--prefix=/usr/local \
--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/php \
--with-layout=PHP \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/php \
--with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d \
--enable-inline-optimization \
--disable-debug \
--disable-rpath \
--disable-static \
--enable-shared \
--mandir=/usr/local/share/man \
phpextensions="--with-openssl=shared \
--with-zlib=shared \
--enable-bcmath=shared \
--with-bz2=shared \
--enable-calendar=shared \
--with-curl=shared \
--enable-dba=shared \
--without-db2 \
--without-db3 \
--with-db4=shared \
--with-gdbm=shared \
--enable-dbase=shared \
--enable-exif=shared \
--enable-ftp=shared \
--with-gd=shared \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--with-jpeg-dir=shared,/usr \
--with-png-dir=shared,/usr \
--with-gettext=shared \
--with-imap=shared \
--with-imap-ssl=shared \
--with-ldap=shared \
--enable-mbstring=shared \
--with-mcrypt=shared \
--with-mysql=shared \
--with-mysql-sock=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock \
--with-mysql=shared \
--with-mysqli=shared \
--with-ncurses=shared \
--with-unixODBC=shared,/usr \
--enable-pdo=shared \
--with-pdo-mysql=shared \
--with-pdo-sqlite=shared,/usr \
--with-pdo-odbc=shared,unixODBC,/usr \
--with-pdo-pgsql=shared \
--with-sqlite=shared \
--enable-sqlite-utf8 \
--with-pgsql=shared \
--enable-shmop=shared \
--with-snmp=shared \
--enable-soap=shared \
--enable-sysvmsg=shared \
--enable-sysvsem=shared \
--enable-sysvshm=shared \
--with-tidy=shared \
--with-xsl=shared \
--enable-zip=shared \
--enable-posix=shared \
--enable-sockets=shared \
--enable-xml \
--with-ttf=shared \
--enable-session=shared \
--with-regex=php \
--with-pcre-regex=/usr \
--enable-mbstring=all \
--enable-mbregex \
--enable-json=shared \
--with-iconv=shared \
--with-xmlrpc=shared \
--with-pspell=shared \
--with-freetype-dir=shared,/usr \
--with-mime-magic=shared \
--with-gmp=shared \
--with-mhash=shared \
PEAR_INSTALLDIR=/usr/local/share/pear
export PEAR_INSTALLDIR
cd ${srcdir}/php-${pkgver}
# db 5.1 fix
patch -p4 -i ${srcdir}/db-5.patch
# avoid linking against old db version
patch -p0 -i ${srcdir}/db-configure.patch
# libpng 1.4 fix
patch -p3 -i ${srcdir}/libpng14.patch
# gmp 5.0 fix
sed -i 's/__GMP_BITS_PER_MP_LIMB/GMP_LIMB_BITS/g' ext/gmp/gmp.c
# apply suhosin patch
patch -p1 -i ${srcdir}/suhosin-patch-${_suhosinver}.patch
# cli
./configure ${phpconfig} \
--disable-cgi \
--with-readline \
--enable-pcntl \
--with-pear=/usr/local/share/pear \
${phpextensions}
make
# make test
make -j1 INSTALL_ROOT=${pkgdir} install
# cleanup
rm -f ${pkgdir}`${pkgdir}/usr/local/bin/php-config --extension-dir`/*.a
# install php.ini
install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/php.ini ${pkgdir}/usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
install -d -m755 ${pkgdir}/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/
# cgi and fcgi
./configure ${phpconfig} \
--enable-fastcgi \
--enable-cgi \
--enable-discard-path \
--enable-force-cgi-redirect \
--disable-cli \
${phpextensions}
make
install -D -m755 sapi/cgi/php-cgi ${pkgdir}/usr/local/bin/php-cgi
# mod_php
./configure ${phpconfig} \
--with-apxs2 \
--disable-cli \
${phpextensions}
make
install -D -m644 libs/libphp5.so ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/httpd/modules/libphp52.so
install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/apache.conf ${pkgdir}/etc/httpd/conf/extra/php52_module.conf
After all that, I setup mod_fcgid and 2 test virtual hosts, one for each PHP version.
My setup was semi based on this tutorial http://2bits.com/articles/apache-fcgid- … ation.html
I ended up doing it with 3 Apache includes, excluding my vhosts include. I don't know if it is the best way of doing it, but considering this is a dev machine and I was going for easy management of PHP versions with multiple vhosts, I think this setup works well.
If anybody is interested here is my apache conf files.
/etc/httpd/conf/extra/fcgid_module.conf
# Server wide conf for fcgid
# Required modules: mod_fcgid
# FYI: All directives have been renamed in order to use a common prefix "Fcgid".
# see http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/mod/mod_fcgid.html
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
# Maximum number of PHP processes
MaxProcessCount 10
</IfModule>
/etc/httpd/conf/extra/php52_fcgid.conf
# Required modules: mod_fcgid php5_cgi
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi .php
# Where to look for the php.ini file?
DefaultInitEnv PHPRC "/usr/local/etc/php"
# Maximum requests a process handles before it is terminated
MaxRequestsPerProcess 100
# Number of seconds of idle time before a process is terminated
IPCCommTimeout 240
IdleTimeout 240
#Or use this if you use the file above
FCGIWrapper /usr/local/bin/php-cgi .php
</IfModule>
/etc/httpd/conf/extra/php53_fcgid.conf
# Default PHP package config, PHP 5.3
# Required modules: mod_fcgid php5_cgi
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi .php
# Where to look for the php.ini file?
DefaultInitEnv PHPRC "/etc/php"
# Maximum requests a process handles before it is terminated
MaxRequestsPerProcess 100
# Number of seconds of idle time before a process is terminated
IPCCommTimeout 240
IdleTimeout 240
# Or use this if you use the file above
FCGIWrapper /usr/bin/php-cgi .php
</IfModule>
/etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf (and adding of domain to /etc/hosts)
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin root@localhost
DocumentRoot "/srv/http/php52.test"
ServerName php52.test
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/php52.test"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/php52.test" common
Include conf/extra/php52_fcgid.conf
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin root@localhost
DocumentRoot "/srv/http/php53.test"
ServerName php53.test
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/php53.test"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/php53.test" common
Include conf/extra/php53_fcgid.conf
</VirtualHost>
The rest was changes to my http.conf, here are most of the parts that changed.
# mod_fcgid
LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so
<Directory "/srv/http">
Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
</Directory>
# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
# mod_fcgid server wide conf
Include conf/extra/fcgid_module.conf
I hope somebody else finds this useful. This was a learning experience for me.