Would your clients like to have multiple versions of PHP?

[iseletsk]

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

[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.

[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.

[rajesh]

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

[rajesh]

Hi Igor,

Is there any updates on this?

Regards,
Rajesh

[iseletsk]

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

[miron]

Excellent

[rajesh]

Would love to hear about this asap

[clm]

We
e also waiting as [S]im[/S]patiently as possible

This feature will allow us to get rid of a few older servers without breaking any scripts as well as allow our customers to not have to wait for a new server before going to a new major PHP version.

[iseletsk]

We are very close to getting first beta out. All you can see here already works.

Admin:

http://www.cloudlinux.com/upload/medialibrary/67c/php_selector.png

End user part

http://www.cloudlinux.com/upload/medialibrary/6e5/php-selector-user.png

[clm]

Looks nice

Will you be managing also when a module is required for another one to work ?

If we get this installed, we would like to have a way to migrate accounts from a cPanel server running PHP 5.2 to a server with a default PHP version of PHP 5.3 and have the migrated accounts set automaticaly to php5.2

We could add a file to the account before migrating this this could make it easier to implement this possibility.

Otherwise maybe it would be possible to change the default during the migration without changing PHP version for accounts already installed…

If this makes it quickly to stable or almost stable (just a few interface glitches) in the next few months then we will be using it for our next server.

[iseletsk]

Are there any such modules? Could you give me an example?

[iseletsk]

First thing first -- get this to work all together
Then we will deal with moving accounts from server to server and adding features.
Though we made sure that if you move account from server1 to server2 that already uses PHP selector, the options stick. Backups should also maintain the options.
Of course I am pretty sure that once it is live -- we will see ton of things that needs to be fixed.

[clm]

Maybe there are not actually any modules that the user will be able to define that will need other modules to work. There arent many modules in easy apache that have dependencies.

From current Easy Apache :

CurlSSL disables Curl

PDO MySQL enables PDO

[iseletsk]

We carry all the dependencies, like if module need some extra shared library -- it will be there. And yes, you are right, we should make some options mutually exclusive. But we will add it in the "later" versions.