Question

My setup

• shared hosting
• no root access
• shell access
• symfony 2.1
• capifony for deployment (well, at least, that’s the plan)

build_bootstrap.php uses

#!/usr/bin/env php

This is linked to the php4 cli in

/usr/local/bin/php

PHP4 does of course not work. The php 5.3 cli is in

/usr/local/bin/php53 

Is there a central place to tell Symfony 2.1 to change the env? Something with putenv? Export path in bash config files?

Update:

I am now using an alias for php in my bashrc as @thecatontheflat suggested.

Unfortunately Symfony brings its own logic where to look for the php binaries.
One option is to set PHP_PATH via putenv.
I added it both to app/console and app/autoload.php as both files are involved in the Capifony tasks

Answer 1

Solution:

add two settings to .bashrc/.bash_profile

alias php="/usr/local/bin/php53"
export PHP_PATH = "/usr/local/bin/php53"

and also set php_bin in Capifony’s deploy.rb

set  :php_bin, " /usr/local/bin/php53"