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Enable PHP Version Switching

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    Hello,

    Is there a simple method for allowing cPanel accounts to switch between various PHP versions? I'm sure in the past I have seen this when using cPanel as a client, but I can't seem to find any option for this aside from using CloudLinux (which I don't want to do currently).

    On a related note, would it be possible to install PHP7 as part of this switcher or as a standalone upgrade?
     
    #1 gwen_the_hen, Mar 17, 2017
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    #2 Jcats, Mar 17, 2017
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    Great! Thanks for such a swift reply. Do you recommend doing this in most cases? Are there any concerns about doing so?
     
    #3 gwen_the_hen, Mar 17, 2017
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    It can cause issues yes, I'd recommend giving a maintenance period for your users, the web server usually goes down during the transition and depending on how slow/fast the server is the downtime can vary but usually 2~ minutes.

    I'd also recommend changing the default PHP limits as the default ones are pretty low like memory_limit and upload file size, example by default I usually do:

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    sed -i 's/allow_url_fopen = Off/allow_url_fopen = On/g' /opt/cpanel/ea-php*/root/etc/php.ini
sed -i 's/max_execution_time = 30/max_execution_time = 120/g' /opt/cpanel/ea-php*/root/etc/php.ini
sed -i 's/max_input_time = 60/max_input_time = -1/g' /opt/cpanel/ea-php*/root/etc/php.ini
sed -i 's/memory_limit = 32M/memory_limit = 128M/g' /opt/cpanel/ea-php*/root/etc/php.ini
sed -i 's/upload_max_filesize = 2M/upload_max_filesize = 64M/g' /opt/cpanel/ea-php*/root/etc/php.ini

/scripts/restartsrv_apache
    You can run that right in SSH, but change the actual options as you see fit.

    If all hell breaks loose, and you are not sure what the issue is, you can revert back to EA3 as well.
     
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    Yes just run that, you are most likely not running the latest version of cPanel then as it was recently implemented to do the migration within WHM instead of using SSH
     
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    OK great, I will give it a go - thanks!
     
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    No problem!
     
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    For this goal I use - MultiPHP Manager.
     
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