Installing PHP 5.6.x and 7.0.x with Ubuntu 14.04 and Virtualmin 5

Updated with new information regarding having PHP 5.6.x and PHP7.0.x work with the creation of new sites

This tutorial shows you how to install PHP 5.6.x and PHP 7.0.x side by side on Ubuntu 14.04 with Virtualmin using FCGI and assumes that you already have Virtualmin configured on a server. Please read through this entire tutorial before starting.

Note: As always backup your servers or sites. I accept no liability for loss of data, problems, or damage caused to your server by following this tutorial. This worked for me but – use at your own risk.

Adding the PPA

The first thing you’ll need to do is add the ppa that lets you install PHP 5.6.x and PHP 7.0.x side by side. The following ppa allows both PHP 5.6.x and PHP 7.0.x to run side-by-side. Type or paste the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Once you enter the above command You should see something similar to the following when you add the repository.

Co-installable PHP versions: PHP 5.6, PHP 7.0 and batteries included.

You can get more information about the packages at https://deb.sury.org

For PHP 5.6 use: ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6
For PHP 5.5 use: ppa:ondrej/php5
For PHP 5.4 use: ppa:ondrej/php5-oldstable

BUGS&FEATURES: This PPA now has a issue tracker: https://deb.sury.org/pages/bugreporting.html

PLEASE READ: If you like my work and want to give me a little motivation, please consider donating: https://deb.sury.org/pages/donate.html

WARNING: add-apt-repository is broken with non-UTF-8 locales, see https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/56 for workaround:

# apt-get install -y language-pack-en-base
# LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

Press enter when prompted or ctrl-c if you change your mind. If you press enter the server should respond with the following output:

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp6l1myhl1/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp6l1myhl1/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key E5267A6C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp6l1myhl1/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key E5267A6C: public key "Launchpad PPA for Ondřej Surý" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Next you will need to update and upgrade the system before we continue. This should ensure that you have the latest Webmin, Usermin and Virtualmin if you haven’t already updated them. I’m going to use aptitude because I want to easily see what the options are for any conflicts. Type or paste the following two lines.

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude full-upgrade

You should hopefully see something more or less like the following, depending on if we’ve updated recently we may only see the bit about new packages and removing packages without any upgrades listed.

Current status: 10 updates [+5], 1622 new [+199].
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libmemcached11{a} libqdbm14{a} libssl1.0.2{a} php-cli{a} php-common{a} php-readline{a} php7.0-cli{ab} php7.0-common{ab} php7.0-json{a} php7.0-opcache{a} php7.0-readline{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libgnutls-openssl27 libgnutls26 libmemcachedutil2 libpng12-0 libssl-dev libssl-doc openssl php-pear usermin webmin-virtual-server
10 packages upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 26.2 MB of archives. After unpacking 25.0 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 php7.0-cli : Breaks: php5-cli (< 5.6.16+dfsg-4~) but 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.14 is installed.
 php7.0-common : Conflicts: php5-common (< 5.6.16+dfsg-4~) but 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.14 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1)     php-pear

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
2)     php-cli [Not Installed]
3)     php-readline [Not Installed]
4)     php7.0-cli [Not Installed]
5)     php7.0-common [Not Installed]
6)     php7.0-json [Not Installed]
7)     php7.0-opcache [Not Installed]
8)     php7.0-readline [Not Installed]

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

Go ahead and accept this solution, PHP will still be at the existing version (PHP 5.5.9) but you’ll change that in the next section.

Installing PHP 5.6.x and PHP 7.0.x

Once you’ve updated your repositories and upgraded your system to ensure you have the latest version of Virtualmin you are ready to install PHP 5.6.x and PHP 7.0.x. Type or paste the next code section and press enter. This will remove and replace the default PHP 5.5.9 packages that come with Ubuntu 14.04 with the versions from the ppa.

sudo aptitude install pkg-php-tools php5.6 php5.6-cgi php5.6-cli php5.6-dbg php5.6-common php5.6-curl php5.6-gd php5.6-imap php5.6-intl php5.6-mysql php5.6-pspell php5.6-sqlite3 php5.6-tidy php5.6-opcache php5.6-json php5.6-bz2 php5.6-mcrypt php5.6-readline php5.6-xmlrpc php5.6-enchant php5.6-xsl php-all-dev php7.0 php7.0-cgi php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-dbg php7.0-curl php7.0-enchant php7.0-gd php7.0-imap php7.0-intl php7.0-ldap php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-readline php7.0-pspell php7.0-tidy php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-xsl php7.0-json php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-mysql php7.0-opcache php7.0-bz2 libapache2-mod-php7.0

Check and accept the solution offered unless it looks like it will break something else in your system. Again, this will remove and replace the default PHP 5.5.9 packages. Once the system has completed installing and configuring PHP check to see if you have a new php-cli running with the following command:

php -v

Following these instructions should yield PHP 7.0.x on the command line and you should see the following (depending on PHP version):

HP 7.0.2-1+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 (cli) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2015, by Zend Technologies

Configuring files and paths for Virtualmin

Next you will need to move some files into place for Virtualmin to have access to php.ini files per server. This may be necessary for you depending on how you want manage you sites. If you don’t need individual php.ini files you can skip down to Detected php-cgi versions below.

Virtual Server php.ini files

Copy php.ini files to home directories and remember to change to the name of the virtualmin home/directory and user.

sudo mkdir /home//etc/php5.6
sudo mkdir /home//etc/php7
sudo mkdir /home//etc/php7.0
sudo cp /etc/php/5.6/cgi/php.ini /home//etc/php5.6/
sudo cp /etc/php/7.0/cgi/php.ini /home//etc/php7/
sudo cp /etc/php/7.0/cgi/php.ini /home//etc/php7.0/
sudo chown -R . /home//etc

If you have many sites and sub-sites you might want a script that can loop through the home directory and update as required. I’ve provided a script, vmin-inis.sh, that can do that but as always check the scripts and verify the path for your system and update the script as needed.

If you want to use the script instead of typing the above commands make it executable and go ahead and run it.

chmod +x vmin-inis.sh
sudo ./vmin-inis.sh

Detected php-cgi versions

For some reason the detected version of PHP are either not install correctly or Virtualmin detects them incorrectly. So in order for Virtualmin to work with PHP 5.6.x and PHP 7.0.x you will need to correct the location of where the php-cgi executables are. Instead of fixing them in the /home//fcgi-bin/*.fcgi files you will need to fix them on the file system. The reason for this is that Virtualmin will change the files back to what it detects and then you will start getting 500 errors. Type or paste the following to set the files correctly.

cd /usr/bin
sudo mv -f php5.6 php5.6.old
sudo mv -f php7.0 php7.0.old
sudo ln -s php-cgi5.6 php5.6
sudo ln -s php-cgi7.0 php7.0

This may need to be done again after updating PHP 5.6.x and PHP 7.0.x unless the detection or installation is fixed in the future. Here’s a script, fcgi-fix.sh, that will move the phpX.X files Virtualmin points to to phpX.X.old and create symbolic links for phpX.X to php-cgiX.X instead which seems to work correctly script. You can download, extract, run this and that should be able to do the above and which you can run after updating PHP should the need arise.

chmod +x fcgi-fix.sh
sudo ./fcgi-fix.sh

At this point almost everything is set but php-cgi will not quite work. What will happen at this point if you try to go to one of your site is that your web browser will try to download the php file. You’ll need to edit the apache configuration file to tell it to not handle php files.

nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/php7.0.conf

Configuring Apache for PHP

Comment out SetHandler application/x-httpd-php and SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source. It should look like this when done.

<FilesMatch ".+\.ph(p[3457]?|t|tml)$">
    # SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch ".+\.phps$">
    # SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source
    # Deny access to raw php sources by default
    # To re-enable it's recommended to enable access to the files
    # only in specific virtual host or directory
    Require all denied
</FilesMatch>
# Deny access to files without filename (e.g. '.php')
<FilesMatch "^\.ph(p[3457]?|t|tml|ps)$">
    Require all denied
</FilesMatch>
    
# Running PHP scripts in user directories is disabled by default
#
# To re-enable PHP in user directories comment the following lines
# (from <IfModule ...> to </IfModule>.) Do NOT set it to On as it
# prevents .htaccess files from disabling it.
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    <Directory /home/*/public_html>
        php_admin_flag engine Off
    </Directory>
</IfModule>

After updating the php7.0.conf you must restart apache.

service apache2 restart

If you see this message when restarting apache you will need to update your /etc/hosts file with the ip address and domain name. I don’t think this is an issue with the install as I think there was a problem with my /etc/hosts file not having the domain added when Virtualmin was installed but I am providing this information just in case.

AH00557: apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for 

Finalizing Virtualmin Configuration

Now, make the switch or fix existing PHP 5.5.9 sites to use one of the new versions of PHP you installed. Once PHP 5.6.x and PHP 7.0.x are installed we will need to ensure that Virtualmin can see them both. First go to our Virtualmin Server -> Virtualmin -> System Settings -> Re-Check Configuration. Once that completes we should be able to see PHP 5.6.x and PHP 7.0.x as options.

Then go to Virtualmin -> Server Configuration -> PHP Versions and select 5.6.x or 7.0.x as required for the Default HTML directory then click Save Versions. That virtual host should now be using the selected version PHP.

Check your sites to make sure they work as expected. I’ve had a few WordPress sites that have plugins that are not compatible with PHP 7.0.x and started throwing 500 errors but work fine when reverted to PHP 5.6.x.

s far as the creation of new sites goes you will need to edit you server templates to accomodate the new version of PHP. To do that go to Virtualmin –> System Setting Server Templates and edit each of the templates. When editing the templates at the Edit template section choose Apache website then scroll down until you see Template for PHP 5.6/7.0/7 configuration file and change from default to the following respectively:

Sources

https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation
https://askubuntu.com/questions/705880/how-to-install-php-7
https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php

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The other day I ran across what is probably the best video guide to learn how to use Lightbox Plus ColorBox and easily add fancy light box photo effects to your WordPress site. I wish I could say that I created it, but frankly writing tutorials, guides and documentation is not my forte.
The author of this excellent guide is Philip Gledhill and he does an brilliant job covering all aspects of Lightbox Plus ColorBox.  The tutorial is available on Philip’s site as Lightbox Plus WordPress Plugin video guide. If you are trying to get a better understanding of how to use Lightbox Plus ColorBox I can’t recommend his guide enough!

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Lightbox Plus ColorBox has been release at version 2.6 which includes additional fixes for WordPress galleries not loading correctly and the option to output HTML5 valid code. There are now 26 styles included with Lightbox Plus ColorBox.

See the change log after the jump for details.

2.6

• Added option to generate HTML5 valid code..
  • When checked will add data- instead if rel attributes.
  • Can specify specify data- attribute so it can be site specific
  • Does not effect inline lightbxes which were class based already
  • Option located in first tab (General) of base settings
• Fixed (hopefully) all unset variable notices
  • Please notify me if you still seem them
• Fixed issues with per page loading
  • Please note there is no per post loading – it’s either set for your blog/single posts or it’s not
• Added option to load javascript in header or footer
  • Footer is prefered due to potential page load delays
• Added option to set priority of javascript loading
  • Low, Normal, High with priorities as follows 5, 11, 15 relative to other plugin loads
  • May resolve some plugin conflicts due to load order
• Fixed removal of settings on deactivate
  • Will now only remove settings on uninstall
• Fixed gallery short code issues with WordPress 3.0.x and version 3.1.x to 3.4.x.
  • Now creates correct gallery output for specific versions of WordPress
• Moved ‘Use for WordPress Galleries’ option to first tab to ease location
  • Located on General tab of Primary Settings
• Added ColorBox version loading newer/older depending on WordPress version
  • It seems older verions of WordPress were having jQuery conflict with the latest version of ColorBox
• Added information to submit for support under the support tab
• Fixed issue where PHP HTML DOM Parser would throw error when getting title if link had no child img to get title from.
• Renamed plugin to Lightbox Plus ColorBox to reflect long time usage or ColorBox as the lightbox tool
• Updated ColorBox to version 1.3.32
  • Improved internal event subscribing & fixed event bug introduced in v1.3.21
  • Fixed a size-calculation bug
  • Delayed border-width calculations until after opening, to avoid a bug in FF when using ColorBox in a hidden iframe.
  • Fixes bug with bubbling delegated events
  • Fixed compatibility issue with old versions of jQuery (1.3.2-1.4.2)
  • Added className property.
  • Minor bugfix: clear the onload event handler after photo has loaded.
  • Minor bugfix for calling ColorBox on empty jQuery collections without a selector.
• Minor internal fixes and changes

2.5.5

• Fixed some issues when default jQuery of versions less than 1.4.3 (minimum required) were causing images to not load
• Fixed some jQuery methods in admin panel to work with versions of jQuery older than 1.6
• Updated ColorBox to version 1.3.21.1
  • Fixed global event issue for jQuery 1.9

You can get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download [Download not found] directly.

For support please look for support on the WordPress support forums or submit a support request through the support form.

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Lightbox Plus has been updated version 2.5.4 which includes fixes for WordPress galleries not loading correctly and and update to correct lightboxing galleries based on the Use for WP Gallries checkbox. In addition there are over a dozen new styles added for Lightbox Plus.

See the change log after the jump for details.

2.5.4

• Updated gallery shortcode replacement to match current implementation in WordPress
  • This was breaking galleries for some but not all people
• Updated styles to deal with the “new” CSS box model.
  • Thanks to hexagongirl for pointing this out to me
• Fixed problem where galleries where getting lighboxing treatment even if the Use for WP Galleries checkbox was unchecked.
  • You should now have to check the box for it to work
• Added a dozen new styles for a total of 26 different styles
  • Added style preview to admin panel to show a small sceeenshot of the style

You can get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download [Download not found] directly.

For support please look for support on the WordPress support forums or submit a support request through the support form.

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I have updated Lightbox Plus version 2.5.3 which includes additional fixes to the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser and the ability to have up to 1000 inline lightboxes.  More importantly I corrected a problem for servers that don’t have the PHP mbstring extension installed.

See the change log after the jump for details.

2.5.3

• Changed support portal to use WordPress.org only as I am unable to handle multiple vectors for support
• Updated various links throughout plugin to reflect current URLs
• Updated instructions
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

2.5.2

• Updated PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser to very latest rev (v 1.5 rev 202)
• Fixed PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser to create exception for servers that don’t have mbstring extension enabled
  • This regressed with an update to recent versions of PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser
• Added support for up to 1000 inline lightboxes
  • Inline lightboxes are allocated in increments of 5
  • There is a performance hit in the Lightbox Plus admin when going over 100 however.

You can get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download [Download not found] directly.

For support please submit a support request  though the support form.  For questions of comments please post a message in the Lightbox Plus forum on my site.

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Lightbox Plus is updated to version 2.5.1 which include compatibility with WordPress 3.4 and 3.5 and also updated Colorbox to version 1.3.20. This release includes a major interface overhaul and additional features and options including the ability to position the lightbox in a specific location on a page, the ability to set the position of the lightbox to stay in the viewport even when the page is scrolled, per page usage of Lightbox Plus and the ability to auto-launch the lightbox on page load and specify lightboxes on individual pages.

See the details of the post after the jump for details.

2.5.1

• Fixed php html dom functions that were throwing errors when using other plugins using PHP HTML DOM.

2.5

• Added positioning options
  • Absolute top, right, bottom, left positioning. Now able to specify horizontal and vertical position in viewport as opposed to center only.
  • Fixed positioning that allows lightbox stays on page when scrolled.
• Rebuilt interface
  • Changed interface to a combination of collapsible and tabbed to make it more concise and usable
  • Separate settings into logical groups within tabs
  • Added enhanced instructions and details of usage.
  • Improved and updated demos and tests.
• Page/Post Options
  • Auto launch on page. If auto-launch is set Lightbox Plus will automatically open the first lightboxed item on the page.
  • Per page loading. If per page options are set Lightbox JavaScript will only load for specified pages.
  • Blog/posts only loading. if per page options are set Lightbox JavaScript will only load for specified pages.
• Image grouping
  • Added more control over image grouping
  • Fixed image X of X problem, can disable Image X of X
• Scrolling – If ‘false’ ColorBox will hide scrollbars for overflowing content. This could be used on conjunction with the resize method (see below) for a smoother transition if you are appending content to an already open instance of ColorBox.
• Numerous bug fixes
  • Fixed use WP Caption option. Works with singles images and WordPress built in galleries now.
  • Fixed text links getting lightboxed even of option is not set.
  • Fixed many small issues and text errors.
• Added class check for php html dom classes to prevent stomping on other plugins using the class.
• Updated ColorBox to version 1.3.20
  • Added temporary workaround for jQuery-UI 1.8 bug (http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12273)
  • Added *.jpe extension to the list of image types.

You can get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download [Download not found] directly.

For support please submit a support request  though the support form.  For questions of comments please post a message in the Lightbox Plus forum on my site.

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The privacy-destroying Internet bill (CISPA) goes to vote this Monday (4/23/12), and without massive resistance from the American people,it’s expected to be passed. [8:01]

We need to start contacting our Representatives in Congress directly. Please Share!

• Contacting Congress

More lines of Action after the jump!

Reddit

• Superdopamine: TIME TO MIGRATE FROM FACEBOOK.
• A list of ways to easily contact every company that supports CISPA.

Social Networking

• Permanently Delete Facebook
• Due to popular demand – I’m closing my FB account posters (PSD included)
• Moving to Google+
• Moving to Diaspora
• Original Photoshop Files
• If you dont like Google+ check out Diaspora

ACLU

• ACLU: Tell Congress: No Cyber Spying! No CISPA!

Electronic Frontier Foundation

• EFF: Tweet at your Representatives in Congress
• EFF: Don’t Let Congress Use “Cybersecurity” Fears to Trample on Civil Liberties

Sincerly

(sends a postcard to your reps)

• Protest CISPA: We will Print & Ship Postcards with your message to Congress

AVAAZ

• Avaaz Petition to Congress to kill CISPA. Currently on 651,000 signatures
• Avaaz Petition: To Facebook, Microsoft and IBM – immediately drop your support for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)

Demand Progress

• Tell Facebook: Withdraw Your Support For CISPA | Demand Progress
• CISPA Is The New SOPA: Help Kill It

You Anon News

• @YourAnonNews Come Together to stop CISPA!

Useful Links:

• How to Write Your Congressman

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I just released a new plugin that is an add-on for Gravity Form which allows leads generated in Gravity Forms to be fed into HubSpot.  The Gravity Forms HubSpot add-on let’s you use the HubSpot Lead API to send your Gravity Forms based landing page leads directly to HubSpot. All you need to do is add one setting and check a box when configuring your forms.  All your form entries will then be added to HubSpot from now on. Integrating with HubSpot has never been so simple.

You can grab the plugin right here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hubspot-for-gravity-forms/

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From Lightbox Plus (fancy photos) @ Using WordPress

Many thanks to the creator of this wonderful tutorial!

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I’ll be at SXSW Interactive later this week. I’m not sure which talks, panels and events I’m going to attend just yet.  I do plan on attending at least one or two of the keynotes – hopefully the Ray Kurzweil conversation with Lev Grossman “Expanding Our Intelligence Without Limit” and Jennifer Pahlka’s “Coding the Next Chapter of American History“.  Quite a few of the featured sessions look good too.

If you’re going too there leave me a comment about what events you might be attending.

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