upgrading php to 5.5

Submitted by responsiveny on Fri, 12/11/2015 - 10:23

Hi, I am running VM on Centos 7 x64. I currently have the default php 5.4 running (single php install only).

i need to upgrade (or add) php 5.5 for a new virtual server I need to bring online.

I am looking at this : https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/web/multiplephp

It seems to suggest that I can install another version of php on the server (version 5.5) and then the server will have 2 installs of php. Then I can choose a version from a list for each virtual server.

My question is, if I go thru this process of installing the second php version (5.5) will it in any way affect the current virtual servers? I dont want to upset them. I may want to go thru later and configure them to run php5.5 manually, but I dont want the install process to try to do it automatically.

thanks

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Submitted by andreychek on Fri, 12/11/2015 - 11:21

Howdy -- installing a second PHP version won't affect existing sites.

It could affect new sites, depending on which PHP version is set to be the default, but existing sites aren't changed.

However, each site would then be configurable as to which PHP version to use, so it's simple to change your existing sites to the new PHP version if you wish.