Installing

CentOS

The CentOS repositories contain an old version of PHP:

$ yum info php.x86_64 | grep Version
Version     : 5.4.16

But you can get a more-up-to-date version by adding the Software Collections (SCL) repository, or the ius repository.

Running each website as a different user, using php-fpm pools

Requirements:

  1. Create a user, which should belong to its own group (e.g. brian:brian)
  2. Configure a new pool in php-fpm - /etc/

Developing locally

With containers/podman:

podman run -d -p 8086:80 --name miphp -v "$PWD":/var/www/html:Z php:7-apache