Use PHP 5.6 for a site under Control Web Panel Pro rather than the global PHP 7.3

Question

I'm using PHP 7.3 on a CWP Pro installation. Most of the domains are fine with 7.3 but on one I'm using PHP 5.6 installed with PHP selector V2. .htaccess: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php56 .php

The CMS I'm using has a WebsocketChatServer which is turned on with a shell_exec PHP command. The problem is that the chat server runs with PHP 7.3.

The shell_exec command looks something like /path/Server.php start 14000 > /dev/null 2>/dev/null & echo $! > /path/process_id.txt. I tried changing php to /opt/alt/php56 but it doesn't seem to work.

Answer 1

/opt/alt/php56/bin/php instead of php in CLI. Took me a while to find the real path.