Plesk 9 CentOS: multiple PHP versions running, configurable for each domain?

Question

I know that the windows version of Plesk allows you to select a version of PHP (4 or 5) for each domain you host, but can something be done for the Linux varient?

I've got a Plesk 9.5.3 Centos 5.2 dedicated server with root access. A couple of sites I'll be working on developing would require some PHP 5.3 functionality.

Is there a way, either by manipulating vhost.conf for each domain or by installing a module for Plesk, that I could have the facility to install and configure a different version of PHP to run for each domain on the box?

Ideally, it would default to PHP 5.2, with the option for 5.3 and eventually 6.x

My server is a bog standard Plesk installation - I've done nothing apart from install some extra PHP modules using YUM. Atomic has been used to update PHP to version 5.2.17 today.

Answer 1

You could achieve this by installing php as a cgi script (which is basically what windows does), but then you would add a big overhead on cpu time and will make all your scripts quite slow (also consider the security implications).

In my personal taste it is better to keep your php up to date and make everyone comply with the php requirements, and if one of your customers needs an older php version just provide a cgi one warning on the slowness that'll result.