Centos6: Prallel installation of httpd24u and php56u fails (dependency) about httpd24u

[raider700]

The php56u package is looking for "httpd-mmn = 20051115" but httpd24u provides "httpd-mmn = 20120211" what is needed in centos7 or rhel7.

The centos6 default php package is also not usable with this httpd24u.

Is it possible to get the package for centos6 with the needed dependency?

[carlwgeorge]

Howdy @raider700,

TLDR: Use php56u-fpm, not php56u.

This is the expected behavior. The PHP language is actually in the php56u-common package. The php56u package is mod_php, an httpd module that serves as a PHP SAPI (server API). Yes, the naming stinks, but it's something we inherited from Fedora/RHEL. As you noticed, this means that mod_php (php56u) compiles against the MMN (magic module number) of httpd. This means that if you build mod_php against httpd 2.2, it can only install with httpd 2.2. When we created httpd24u, we decided to continue building our mod_php packages against stock httpd. Building mod_php for every combination of PHP and httpd was far more complexity than we were willing to maintain. Additionally, there was no way to trigger automatic updates for users to switch from php5u/httpd to php5u/httpd24u.

In order to use httpd24u with PHP 5.6, you must use php56u-fpm. The FPM SAPI does not compile against a specific webserver, so you can use it with httpd, nginx, lighttpd, and more. On a related not, the original reason we got the request for httpd 2.4 was to have better support for FPM.

One final note, to address the mod_php naming confusion in our PHP 7.0 packages, we chose to move the mod_php files into a subpackage named mod_php70u. This means that you would explicitly choose php70u-fpm or mod_php70u. mod_php70u still provides php70u, so yum install php70u still works.