Hi,
Firstly, my compliments to the designers of Nethserver! It is simply amazing and works almost out the box! So easy to configure, set up and use.
I do have a first issue though, I have a web application that needs PHP version 5.6 or higher, so I installed PHP 8.0 on a new Apache virtual host. However, the Apache default virtual host is still utilizing PHP 5.4. How do I change this please or remove the default virtual host?
not possible, use php-fpm with a virtulhost, eventually make a custom configuration to use php-fpm in /var/www/html
I’m sorry but your answer makes no sense to me, I do not understand your answer at all. I am new to Nethserver so if you could please explain what you mean?
no problem, in short if you want to break your system then you can go to install a major new php version.
Because we want a stable version we use php-fpm, a php version running behind a systemd service. Hence we do not modify the PHP version for the whole system but we use only inside a virtualhost
Ok, I still am lost. I installed PHP version 8.0 from the new virtual host setup option in Cockpit, so I’m not sure what you mean by “breaking the system”. Also, what exactly is php-fpm? I cannot find any major documentation online on this?
You know, never mind. I will simply not use the application I wanted. The link you sent to me is too complicated. As explained I am very new to this, so I do not even understand what is explained there. Thank you anyway
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you could probably use your custom application inside a virtualhost if it is a web application, or if it is a CLI application, then I suppose you could still use it
yum install nethserver-remi-php80-php-fpm.noarch
then use in the CLI
php80 -v
or from my repository stephdl
yum install nethserver-remi-php81-php-fpm.noarch --enablerepo=stephdl
Regarding your first answer, it is a web application and it IS IN A VIRTUAL HOST, one that I created from Cockpit, using “Create a Virtual Host” and that is also where I installed PHP 8.0 from. So what I don’t understand is why my application still sees PHP 5.4. This is actually my issue, sir. If I run phpinfo.php from either directory, either /var/www/html, or from the new virtual host directory /var/lib/nethserver/vhost/8d15d07d4a7a726/, it gives me the same version of PHP, 5.4
please use the command above and you will see that to use PHP80 you need to use another binary
Well, I ran the above and it says "Package nethserver-remi-php80-php-fpm-1.0.0-1.ns7.noarch already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[root@server ~]#
This is how PHP-FPM works, you do not modify the default PHP version, you just install how many other versions you need. On /var/www/html it will be always PHP54 except if you customize your installation.
Ok, can you please explain how to customize my installation please?
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You need to adapt the tcp port of the tcp port of the relevant php-fpm version you use
For php80 it is 9008 tcp port
I do not have any reverse proxy settings and how would I share my virtual host settings please?
To output your virtual host settings on command line:
db vhosts show
I can’t reproduce. If I set PHP8 in the virtual host and then browse to https://<virtualhostname>/phpinfo.php I get the right PHP version. To browse to the virtualhost you need to browse by name not by IP.
How do you run phpinfo.php? Command line or browser?
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Well, there I also have a problem, I cannot browse by name internally, only by IP. I run phpinfo.php through a browser
That’s the problem. If you go by IP you go to /var/www/html/ which has PHP5.4 by default.
If your clients use NethServer as DNS server you could add an alias name. If you use another DNS server then you could add a DNS entry for the virtualhost name pointing to the NethServer.
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