Multi-PHP Dev Stack (Linux Mint XFCE)

Overview

• Apache 2.4 + PHP-FPM
• PHP versions installed: 8.4, 8.3, 8.2, 7.4, 5.6
• ionCube Loader v14.4.1 installed for all versions
• OPcache enabled
• Sites (vhosts) bound to specific FPM sockets
• phpMyAdmin installed and locked to localhost
• Backend-only dirs: /var/www/global-scripts and /var/www/sql (not web-served)

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Sites and PHP Versions

• http://app84.local → PHP 8.4
• http://app83.local → PHP 8.3
• http://app82.local → PHP 8.2
• http://legacy74.local → PHP 7.4
• http://legacy56.local → PHP 5.6

All vhosts use /var/www/<site>/public as DocumentRoot.

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Key Paths

• Apache vhosts → /etc/apache2/sites-available/*.conf
• Apache logs → /var/log/apache2/*
• PHP-FPM INIs → /etc/php/<ver>/{cli,fpm}/conf.d/
• ionCube loaders → /usr/lib/php/ioncube/
• phpMyAdmin → /usr/share/phpmyadmin

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Permissions

sudo chown -R alandev:www-data /var/www
sudo find /var/www -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
sudo find /var/www -type f -exec chmod 0664 {} \;

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/global-scripts /var/www/sql
sudo chown -R alandev:www-data /var/www/global-scripts /var/www/sql
sudo chmod 2775 /var/www/global-scripts /var/www/sql

# Restart all PHP-FPM pools
sudo systemctl restart php8.4-fpm php8.3-fpm php8.2-fpm php7.4-fpm php5.6-fpm

# Apache
sudo apache2ctl configtest
sudo systemctl reload apache2

sudo update-alternatives --config php

php8.4 -v
php7.4 -v
php5.6 -v

php8.4 -v | grep ionCube
php7.4 -v | grep ionCube
php5.6 -v | grep ionCube