have now successfully a default froxlor + apache2 + mod_apache + php7  running.

the problem is now that some php webapps are not supporting php7.

i read the debian9 can run multiple php version 

and i installed php 5.6 with

apt-get install apt-transport-https
curl https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg | apt-key add -
echo 'deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ stretch main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb.sury.org.list
apt-get update

https://pehapkari.cz/blog/2017/03/27/multiple-php-versions-the-easy-way/

the manual is for nginx.

i want now to run all virtual host with the default mod_php apache2 setting from froxlor but for some virtualhosts

use another php handler like  php5.6-cgi or php5.6-fmp.

there so many different setting possible and with the decaying search quality it difficult to find a staring point

 

 

 

Multiple php Versions can be used using fcgid (Apache only) as you can define the PHP binary to be executed.

thanks,

its working,

i used  a combination of proxy_fcgi and php-fpm

install :
apt-get install php5.6-fpm php5.6

activate:

a2enmod proxy_fcgi proxy

and in froxlor in the text box Own vHost-settings of the domain settings i added:

 <FilesMatch "\.php$">
    SetHandler  "proxy:unix:/var/run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock|fcgi://foo.com/"
</FilesMatch>

3 minutes ago, veto said:

and in froxlor in the text box Own vHost-settings of the domain settings i added:

 <FilesMatch "\.php$">
    SetHandler  "proxy:unix:/var/run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock|fcgi://foo.com/"
</FilesMatch>

Or even better, go to fpm settings, at the bottom, and just activate "use proxy_fcgi"....Or else you won't have the socket run by the user and you will have read/write problems cause of owner/group mismatch

the activation of fpm and the than the proxy_fcgi made   my php-sites unaccessible.

i will try this now with new a server

 

 

2 hours ago, veto said:

i will try this now with new a server

So, you gonna try the exact same things on a new machine and expect something else to happen? Why not first check logs and vhosts and configs etc.?

not the same.

its working for this one php5.6 webapp for now.

no production site on the new server so peace of mind.

i think i did not install libnss-mysql (required for FCGID/php-fpm/mpm-itk) on the first server.

 

 

 

1 minute ago, veto said:

i think i did not install libnss-mysql (required for FCGID/php-fpm/mpm-itk) on the first server.

Error log would've told you that (unknown user for example)

i got this error:

Tue Aug 15 18:26:32.621996 2017] [proxy:error] [pid 31544] (2)No such file or directory: AH02454: FCGI: attempt to connect to Unix domain socket /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi/froxlor.pa\
nel-serverdomain.com-php-fpm.socket (*) failed
[Tue Aug 15 18:26:32.622037 2017] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 31544] [client 1.47.132.48:8651] AH01079: failed to make connection to backend: httpd-UDS
[Tue Aug 15 18:27:04.808228 2017] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 29580] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart

 

so i linked

/var/lib/apache2/fastcgi/froxlor.pa\
nel-foo.com-php-fpm.socket  to

/var/run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock

 

to login to froxlor again and disable the proxy-fcgi with fpm

 

 

 

 

You know that froxlor itself creates the pool-configs for fpm and with them the sockets...please check your pool-configs (are they being generated to the correct location and included?); check the domains webserver vhosts, etc.etc.etc.

thanks,

but same error

[Wed Aug 16 09:46:26.503876 2017] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 24298] [client 61.19.42.229:1739] AH01079: failed to make connection to backend: httpd-UDS
[Wed Aug 16 09:46:53.687903 2017] [proxy:error] [pid 24300] (2)No such file or directory: AH02454: FCGI: attempt to connect to Unix domain socket /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi/foo.com-php-fpm.socket (*) failed

 

maybe because i don't have

libapache2-mod-fastcgi in stretch anymore

but i have
libapache2-mod-fcgid

stretch uses MOD_PROXY...also, as said before, check VHOSTS and POOL-CONFIGS (or even provide them here) - also verify that these generated files are being included correctly...

I'm testing out Froxlor/Stretch right now, and this procedure worked for me for multiple PHP versions:

- add Debian's/Ubuntu's PHP maintainer repository

apt-get install apt-transport-https
curl https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg | apt-key add -
echo 'deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ stretch main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb.sury.org.list
apt-get update
apt-get install php5.6-cgi php7.1-cgi

You may change the default php with:

update-alternatives --config php

As i use fcgi+apache 2.4+suexec the rest is easy: remove the immutable from the fcgi-starter you wish to change to a different version, and edit the starter to use a different one:

chatt -i /path/to/starter

edit the starter and change

exec /usr/bin/php-cgi -c /path/to/conf   to  exec /usr/bin/php-cgi5.6 -c /path/to/conf

As Debian delivers 7.0, you should have the choice of 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1 binaries. It would be nice to have this as an option within froxlor, but right now you have to re-edit all non-default files when froxlor rebuilds them.

 

BTW: libnss-mysql works in stretch (source build, maridb dev files required).

Why change the starter-file manually? it will be overwritten by the cronjob anyway. If you use FCGID you can just create another php-configuration with /usr/bin/php-cgi5.6 as php-binary and assign it to the domains you want to use php-5.6 with