Would your clients like to have multiple versions of PHP?

[miron]

Excellent

[iseletsk]

We are putting in final touches. The UI is about 99% done, and most of the PHP modules are compiled.

[rajesh]

Hi Igor,

Is there any updates on this?

Regards,
Rajesh

[rajesh]

Waiting for the same
This is one of the most asked feature on our cPanel servers

[dejan]

This is a nice feature, but it must be an optional feature, and it is very important that server admin have the ability to configure this future, for example to choose PHP versions that should be offered to client, to choose if client should be able to use custom php.ini or not, because we for example does not allow this, since custom php.ini file would completely override global php configuration, suhosin, some modules, etc.

If you create this feature so that client can only alter some configuration values (admin configurable), and still forced to use global values for other parameters, that would be great. Otherwise it would be a security nightmare, and this feature should be disabled by default.

We would probably just offer two or max. three PHP versions for clients to use, and not to be able to use a custom php.ini file.

[clm]

Great news Sound like it could be ready for our new server !

It could be almost a year before cPanel allows us to install multiple versions from the same branch or even install beta versions of PHP.

[iseletsk]

Yes, I think we will have first beta in a week.

[greg.birch]

Hi Igor

I am really excited about this feature being part of the cloudlinux offering. Are you any closer to a release date for mulitple php versions?

[iseletsk]

Somewhere in august. We already have all the PHP versions build, about 50 PEAR modules, and about top 30 PECL modules. We are working to fully automated the build process.
And once we are done with new LVE Manager (end of July), we will add UI to switch PHP (should be simple enough)

[rrsmith]

Any idea what sort of time frame we are looking at for this feature to be offered?

[arie.mail]

Almost everything has been said already, but I really like this idea. You always need to be very careful with updating, because you might break your customers sites. If you just can have multiple versions, its the customers responsibility to which version they run, and you can always just add the latest versions for those who want it. I think this seamlessly fits in the idea of a CL environment, where the customer has not much limitations to the environment.

[clm]

@chcp a, I do not currently know of a web interface that allows customers to do this easily without entering any code or editing complicated files.

I would love to have a web interface integrated into cPanel to select PHP version, PHP modules (a default or advanced mode) and also a web based php.ini file editor to for example extend maximum execution time and memory limits.

As far as I know cPanel do not concider these features as important because of their complexity. However if CloudLinux can do this easily then we would absolutly love this.

This would obviously have to be optional (for hosts that don want it) and configurable (to maybe allow hosts to set certain limits).

[elchicopesado]

Hi,

I have not voted. You can do it now with current technologies.
I think it should be a decision of the hosting offer it or not in cloudlinux way.

[2webmaster]

Sounds like a "Win Win" to me.

Frank

[rrsmith]

Yes, this would be great!

Ideally it would be nice if the server admin could select how much the customer could configure, be it just the version, or extensions and all so it satisfies everyone. Those worried about increased support overhead could just disable this feature if they don want to use it.

Weve been stuck on PHP 5.2 for too long as replacing it with 5.3 would create a lot of compatibility issues so it would be nice to be able to offer multiple versions to satisfy all clients. Weve looked at other options like Litespeed and Hive just to have this feature so it would be great if CloudLinux could include it.