[TYPO3-english] TYPO3 CMS 8 and PHP7

["HocomAdvies [  Wiechert Hooghwinkel]

Hi,

I’m wondering how to deal with different TYPO3 versions and PHP since TYPO3 8.1 needs PHP 7 and older versions are running on php 5. The dedicated server set-up is with Debian 8 and PHP 5.6.19 and apache2, that’s fine for TYPO3 6.x and 7.x. Updating php to version 7 would probably cause problems with these older versions of TYPO3. Right?

So what is a way to deal with this? In other words how to test the 8.1 version on the dedicated server, without disturbing the running TYPO3 production sites? 


Best regards,
HocomAdvies



Wiechert Hooghwinkel
www.hocom-advies.nl