Virtualmin

In connection to my post Running multiple PHP versions on CentOS 7 using Virtualmin, this guide will show how to install additional PHP 7.0 version on CentOS 7 by using the Software Collections and have Virtualmin detect and use it.

Here are the steps:

1. Login as root to your server's console terminal.

2. Install the CentOS Linux Software Collections release file:

         
   yum install centos-release-scl
         
       

3. Install the PHP package:

This guide will show how to install additional PHP version (in this tutorial we will install PHP version 5.6. Check my post here for PHP 7.0) on CentOS 7 by using the Software Collections and have Virtualmin detect and use it. What requires me to perform this is because I need to install Drupal 8 which requires PHP version 5.5.9 or higher but as of this writing CentOS 7 only provides PHP version 5.4.16 plus I don't want to affect the system version of the default PHP package installed from system distribution.

We know that Nginx is more faster than Apache and most of us prefer to replace Apache with Nginx as their web server. Nginx is known to serve faster static content and run with less RAM. As of this writing, Virtualmin supports Apache as its web server. To take advantage of Nginx, we will install it as reverse proxy for Apache and continue using Virtualmin to manage your domains (Note: this article will assume that the Nginx and Apache are running on same server).

Virtualmin GPL is a free multiple virtual hosts manager. It is like Plesk or Cpanel that supports the creation and management of Apache virtual hosts, BIND DNS domains, MySQL databases, etc. This tutorial will show how to setup Virtualmin on a fresh server with limited resources.

It is assumed that you don't have any previous installation of Virtualmin. The following procedures are tested on my Linode server running Centos 7 64-bit Linux distribution.