Plesk 11.5: Use multiple PHP versions

Since some of the websites I host on my vServer need a PHP version > 5.3 I had to setup an environment that allows to choose PHP version seperately for every vHost.

The following steps did the trick for me on CentOS 6.7 / Plesk 11.5 (hosted with 1blu.de).

First we need to setup the atomic repository which contains multiple PHP versions and tools for dealing with them in Plesk:

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sh

After this we have to install plesk-php-panda:

yum install plesk-php-panda

That’s it!

Now we should be able to choose a different PHP version for every vHost. Just go to the hosting settings of your domain and choose the PHP version that fits your needs:

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