Updated CWP to Apache 2.4.12, MySQL 5.5.44, and I got PHP 5.6 to work installing it via CWP PHP Selector and adding AddHandler application/x-httpd-php56 .php .php5 to the .htaccess file I put into the home/user/public_html directory.
However a bit confused as this is
PHP 5.6.3 + Zend v2.6.0,
and the version that I had installed earlier via SSH, and the version which shows up when I "php -v" is :
PHP 5.6.10 + Zend v2.6.0 + Suhosin v0.9.38
any idea how to make my version work for all domains?