Vagrant\Homestead - setting up multiple php versions

After you clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git. Go to that directory and run 'git checkout v6.5.0'. From there, you can specify the php version like it says on the laravel docs.

@leff7 First destroy your vm with vagrant and then go to your Homestead directory and run git fetch and git checkout v7.0.1. The, open Homestead.yaml and declare the php version for each project listed and if you want MariaDB instead of MySQL. Then run vagrant up.

sites:
    - map: homestead.test
      to: /home/vagrant/code/Laravel/public
      php: "7.2"

sorry to hijack but i have the same problem and it is driving me nuts!

i need to use php 7.1 instead of 7.2

so i destroy the vm declare the php version for the project : php: "7.1" git fetch

remote: Counting objects: 4, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (4/4), done.
From https://github.com/laravel/homestead
   1be508a..241c926  master     -> origin/master

git checkout v7.0.1

HEAD is now at 0d0082e... ? ? Tagging v7.0.1 (#750)
M       composer.lock
M       resources/Homestead.yaml

and the vagrant up....

php -v keeps saying 7.2 !!!

i am obviously doing something wrong here but i have absolutely no idea what......

@ederson php -v (which you run from the command line) tells the version of php-cli, which is not necessarily the same version of php that the website is running on. It may be that specifying the php version in homestead.yaml sets it for the webserver, but not the cli.

If you make a route like /test and then browse to it...

Route::get('test', function() {
    phpinfo();
});

What version of php does it show running on the webserver?

Thanks cronix..

I realised this a bit after posting here .... I knew a was missing something obvious

I got here searching for how to use different php-cli running Laravel commands. So in case anyone else was wondering that: there seems to be shortcuts for the cli-binaries allready in Homestead. Just replace 'php' with 'php7.1' etc...

php7.1 -v
PHP 7.1.13-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) (built: Jan  5 2018 13:26:45) ( NTS )

convenient!

You may change the php cli version (e.g. to 7.1) like this:

sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/php7.1 /usr/bin/php

Change the php cli version back to default:

sudo ln -sf /etc/alternatives/php /usr/bin/php

So you can temporarily change the php cli version e.g. for older deployment cli scripts.

@YABASHA - Thank you!