Homestead: [Request] Multiple PHP Versions?

Created on 28 Jun 2017 · 7Comments · Source: laravel/homestead

It would be great to provide multiple php version at the same time in a box and specify the php version in the Homestead.yaml like so:

sites:
    - map: homestead.app
      to: /home/vagrant/www
      php: 7.0 <====================
    - map: homestead.app
      to: /home/vagrant/www
      php: 5.6 <====================

How do you think about this idea? 😄

Source

divdax

Most helpful comment

Multiple PHP versions is coming in Homestead 6.0, Settler 3.0

Soon™

svpernova09 on 24 Jul 2017

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This has been brought up a few times, and ultimately what it comes down to is this becomes a big configuration nightmare on our end.

My suggestion is to use different boxes for each version of PHP you need to support. Check out https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/homestead#old-versions if you want to use PHP 7.0. If you need to use 5.x have a look here: https://laravel-news.com/using-older-versions-of-homestead

svpernova09 on 28 Jun 2017

if you're okay breaking out of the Laravel ecosystem, Local by Flywheel is pretty good. It is built with Wordpress as its primary target, but works good for most things. You may just miss out on some of the things Homestead installs by default, or your custom aliases.

https://local.getflywheel.com/

browner12 on 28 Jun 2017

it would be really cool to have such a functionality,
actually i'm using a script to install ondrej/php and php5.6/7.0/7.1 modules on the homestead vagrant box, it's working well, and i can switch versions easily, but it's not out-of-the-box, and need to be re-executed when creating new homestead instances.