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Discussion on: Work and play in PHP 7.4 & PHP 8.0

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Nicolas Bailly • • Edited

Hey, congrats on your first post ! That's a pretty nice solution too.

What I usually do with my LAMP stack is use php-fpm, run all versions I need at the same time, and then in my apache VirtualHost set the correct handler for php files depending on the version I want :

<FilesMatch ".+\.php$">
    SetHandler "proxy:unix:/run/php/php8.0-fpm.sock|fcgi://localhost"
</FilesMatch>
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or

<FilesMatch ".+\.php$">
    SetHandler "proxy:unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock|fcgi://localhost"
</FilesMatch>
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That way all my projects run at the same time without needing to switch from one version to the other, except for the CLI where I still need to run update-alternatives