PHP-version on Raspberry Pi different in phpinfo()

Question

I have a Raspberry Pi 2 where I want to run my backend for an application on. This needs php 5.6 to run correctly, otherwise it will just not work. I installed PHP 5.6 on this Raspberry Pi, but now I have the problem that when I do php -v on the Command Line it will say PHP 5.6.13 (cli) (built: Dec 1 2015 09:39:07).

When I do phpinfo() it will give me PHP Version 5.4.45-0+deb7u2 (and also 5.4 for all other php-related plugins/libraries/extensions, no '5.6' is found on that page.

I tried to completely install php 5.6 from scratch, but that also didn't fix the problem.

For my backend to run the apache needs PHP 5.6. I hope someone knows how to solve this problem and can help me with that.

Answer 1

You don't specify what version of Raspbian you are running, however, Raspbian Jessie shows PHP 5.6.14 available via apt-get. I used the following command to determine this:

sudo apt-cache policy php5

It can be installed with the following command

sudo apt-get -y install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

To make Apache recognize the updated version you will need to restart Apache:

sudo service apache2 restart

You can test this with the same phpinfo(); command you used before.

Answer 2

You have the problem that you have two different versions installed and the one you want to use is not the one that is being selected. A quick search brought up the SE Q&A: is there a tool to manage multiple installations of php on one machine There are several answers including phpbrew but it isn't clear to me - a non-PHP user - which, if any will suite your circumstances, one simple bash script that I looked at seemed possibly of use for the RPi. It was php-switch on Github.