multiple php on apache centos

Several notices from me:

yum install php php-cli mod_fastcgi is not correct. mod_php should not be enabled. also mod_fastcgi can be installed without external repository using mod_fcgid
For PHP 5.2 and libxml>=1.2.9 you have to apply this patch libxml29_compat.patch

to set php version for all host without mod_php enabled add this to httpd.conf

<Directory "/var/www">    Options All +ExecCGI    AddHandler php-cgi .php    Action php-cgi /cgi-bin/php.fastcgi.5.5.18</Directory>

when compiling on 64bit systems the compilation fails because of lib64 folder so you should add --with-libdir=lib64 to configoptions

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