As we know that PHP is the most important part of LAMP applications [WordPress, Joomla, Drupal & Media wiki etc]. Now a days most of these applications require PHP 7 for their installation and configuration. Main advantage of PHP 7.x is that it will load your web application faster and will consume less server’s resources like
CPU and RAM. By default, PHP 5.4 is available in CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 yum repositories. In this article we will demonstrate how to install latest version of PHP on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 Servers.
Installation Steps of PHP 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 on CentOS 7 Server
1] Install yum-utils and enable EPEL repository
Login to your server and use the below yum command to install yum-utils & enable epel repository
[[email protected] ~]# yum install epel-release yum-utils -y
2] Download and Install remirepo using yum command
[[email protected] ~]# yum install //rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
3] Based on your requirement, configure the PHP 7.x repository
To configure PHP 7.1 repository, use below command,
[[email protected] ~]# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php71
To configure PHP 7.2 repository, use below command,
[[email protected] ~]# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php72
To configure PHP 7.3 repository, use below command
[[email protected] ~]# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73
To configure PHP 7.4 repository, use below command
[[email protected] ~]# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74
4] Install PHP 7.4 along with dependencies.
In this tutorial, I will install latest version of PHP 7.4 along with its modules, Run beneath yum command
[[email protected] ~]# yum install php php-common php-opcache php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysql -y
Note: To search all PHP modules use below command:
[[email protected] ~]# yum search php | more
5] Verify the PHP version
Once PHP and its dependencies are installed in step4], use below command to verify the installed PHP version,
[[email protected] ~]# php -v
PHP 7.4.4 [cli] [built: Mar 17 2020 10:40:21] [ NTS ]
Copyright [c] The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright [c] Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.4.4, Copyright [c], by Zend Technologies
[[email protected] ~]#
Installation Steps of PHP 7.x on RHEL 7 Server
1] Enable EPEL, RHEL 7 Server Optional repository and Install remirepo rpm
Login to your RHEL 7 Server and run the beneath commands one after the another to enable EPEL repository, install remirepo and enable RHEL 7 Server optional repository
[[email protected] ~]# rpm -Uvh //dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm [[email protected] ~]# wget //rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm [[email protected] ~]# rpm -Uvh remi-release-7.rpm epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm [[email protected] ~]# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
2] Configure PHP 7.x repo
[[email protected] ~]# yum install yum-utils [[email protected] ~]# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74
3] Install PHP 7.4 and its dependencies
[[email protected] ~]# yum install php php-common php-opcache php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysql -y
4] Verify PHP Version
[[email protected] ~]# php -v
PHP 7 Test Page Verification
I am assuming Apache web Server is installed on your system, start its service using below systemctl command
[[email protected] ~]# systemctl start httpd [[email protected] ~]#
Now create a info.php file under /var/www/html with following contents,
[[email protected] ~]# cd /var/www/html/ [[email protected] html]# vi info.php
Open the web browser and type the ip of your server followed by info.php,
//Server-IP-Address/info.php
This confirms that you have successfully installed PHP 7.4 on your system. That’s all from this article, please do share your feedback and comments.
Also Read: How to Install PHP 7.4 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8