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Change Laravel Homestead v7.0.1 with php 7.2 to php 7.1

What are the steps to downgrade the php version to 7.1 and make it default on latest Homestead 7, Homestead 7 comes with php version 7.2 as default.

There are a number of dev sites on my homestead I want everything to run on 7.1 by default, if I need 7.2 then I will use the following in my homestead yaml

sites:
    - map: homestead.test
      to: /home/vagrant/Code/homestead/public
      php: "7.2"
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karmendra Avatar asked Dec 16 '17 20:12

karmendra


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I think I have a better solution, to switch the php version in Homestead (I am using version 8 currently) running following lines of code switches the default php version.

sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php7.1
sudo update-alternatives --set phar /usr/bin/phar7.1
sudo update-alternatives --set phar.phar /usr/bin/phar.phar7.1
sudo update-alternatives --set phpize /usr/bin/phpize7.1
sudo update-alternatives --set php-config /usr/bin/php-config7.1

Above line will switch the php version from any version to version 7.1 (Homestead 8 comes with php 7.3 by default).

Do remember to reload web-server (apache or nginx) after making this change.


July 2020 UPDATE: In newer versions of homestead to change php version there are aliases like php71 php72 php73 php74 etc. to easily swith between versions

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karmendra Avatar answered Oct 22 '22 04:10

karmendra


You can simply run sudo update-alternatives --config php and choose from the list like this:

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You should then change the defaults for phar, phar.phar, phpize, php-config the same way you did for php

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Denes Papp Avatar answered Oct 22 '22 04:10

Denes Papp


You shouldn't use older versions of Homestead if you just want to use a different version of PHP.

You can set each site to use PHP 7.1, that won't hurt anything. You can change the CLI version by running php71 from the command line.

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joepferguson Avatar answered Oct 22 '22 02:10

joepferguson