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Bug #50583 PHP Installer needs to support side by side installlation of 5.2 and 5.3 version
Submitted: 2009-12-26 23:28 UTC Modified: 2013-06-07 06:01 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 0 (0.0%)
From: ksingla at microsoft dot com Assigned: pajoye (profile)
Status: Wont fix Package: Windows Installer
PHP Version: 5.3.1 OS: Windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-12-26 23:28 UTC] ksingla at microsoft dot com 
Description:
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In order to support side-by-side installation of PHP 5.2 and 5.3 by  Microsoft Web Platform Installer, PHP installer needs to support side by side setup. To get to a version specific installation, I think following changes will be required

a. Currently, PHP is installed to %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\PHP or %PROGRAMFILES%\PHP. This should change to %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\PHP\<version> or %PROGRAMFILES%\PHP\<version>

b. Currently PHP sets the following registry keys: 
   i.	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\PHP on 64-bit systems.
   ii.	HKLM\SOFTWARE\PHP on 32-bit systemsc.
Change the registry keys to: 
   i.	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\PHP\<version> on 64-bit systems.
   ii.	HKLM\SOFTWARE\PHP on 32-bit systems\<version>d. Set an environment variable called PHPLOC with the path to the latest installed PHP 

c. When IIS-FastCGI install is selected, installer should let users add the PHP handler at site or application level as well so that a particular PHP version can be used for that site or application. Currently the handler is always added at the server level.

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 [2010-01-21 21:21 UTC] ruslany at microsoft dot com 
In addition to that it would be nice if PHP installer allowed user to choose whether to upgrade an existing PHP installation or install a new version side by side. For example, on the very first page of the installer there can be options presented:

1. Upgrade existing installation
2. Install side-by-side and make this a default version
3. Install side-by-side but keep existing version as a default.

In case of installing on IIS that would mean:
In #1 the installer will upgrade the PHP installation as it does today. 

In #2 the installer will install binaries into a new folder and then configure FastCGI handler mapping on a server level and make it the top in the handler mapping list so that it is used by all sites.

In #3 the installer will install binaries into a new folder, configure FastCGI handler mapping, but will not re-order the existing FastCGI handler mapping so that previosly installed PHP vesion is still used.
 [2010-03-25 18:53 UTC] jmertic@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Assigned -Assigned To: +Assigned To: jmertic
 [2010-03-25 18:53 UTC] jmertic@php.net 
Currently assessing whether we can do this across all SAPIs or not.
 [2010-04-15 20:47 UTC] ruslany@php.net
-Summary: PHP Installer needs to support side by side installlation +Summary: PHP Installer needs to support side by side installlation of 5.2 and 5.3 version
 [2010-04-15 20:47 UTC] ruslany@php.net 
The proposed plan for enabling this is described below:

1.	Choose different upgrade codes for PHP 5.2, PHP 5.3 and PHP 6.0
2.	Use folder php52, php53 or php60 under %programfiles% for copying files instead of fixed one %programfiles%\php.
3.	Use different registry paths for different versions.
4.	Do not set PHPRC environment variable at system level. This is required to make different versions of PHP pick different php.ini in a SxS environment for non-FastCGI SAPI's. This request is tracked by a separate bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51536.
5.	Add detection mechanism to detect if other versions are installed. If so, show a warning message telling people to uninstall and then install if they don't want SxS install. Also say that php.ini configuration of other version won't be picked when SxS is happening.
 [2010-04-16 10:59 UTC] pajoye@php.net
-Assigned To: jmertic +Assigned To: pajoye
 [2010-04-16 10:59 UTC] pajoye@php.net 
This plan can only partially work for what we described and need. That's not what we can or will implement.

Taking the hand over that one. I will discuss with John about the possible solutions and get them into our roadmap.
 [2013-06-07 06:01 UTC] pajoye@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Wont fix
 [2013-06-07 06:01 UTC] pajoye@php.net 
installer is not supported anymore in 5.3 and later.
 
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