I have a Centos 7 server running apache 2.4.6 and php 5.4. I'm trying to install Magento 2 on my server for a client but am having issues.
I need to have PHP 5.5 or 5.6 installed on my server for Magento 2 to run. I cannot figure out how to upgrade to PHP 5.5 or PHP 5.6.
I don't know the difference between the two versions, so I'll take whatever I can get working !
Thanks :)
This is the procedure for PHP 5.6.
I was able to upgrade PHP 5.4.16 on CENTOS7 to version 5.6.25 with these simple steps. Important to note that i used the Software Collection Repositories.
1- Install All these new packages:
2- Make apache 2.4 use php-fpm
Edit that file: /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf Put that content:
<FilesMatch \.php$> # SetHandler application/x-httpd-php SetHandler "proxy:fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000" </FilesMatch> 3- Reboot services to handle php-fpm:
4- Enabling rh-php56-php-fpm service on boot time
5- Create a symlink for the new php version.
yum install rh-php56-php-gd
/etc/httpd/conf* as suggested in doc.owncloud.org/server/8.2/admin_manual/installation/…
mbstring. I imagine that this will vary for each users needs, but the important thing to note with each new package is that you have to restart php-fpm along with apache to see the modules take effect.Run this in your terminal: wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm rpm -Uvh remi-release-7*.rpm epel-release-7*.rpm
Then : sudo yum install php php-gd php-mysql php-mcrypt
and you should have php 5.5
php -v it still says PHP 5.4.16 (cli) (built: Jun 23 2015 21:17:27)This is the procedure for PHP 7.3
I was able to upgrade PHP 5.4.16 on CENTOS7 to version 7.3.11 with these simple steps. Important to note that i used the Software Collection Repositories.
1- install this alone
yum install centos-release-scl 2- then run this
yum install rh-php73 yum install rh-php73-php yum install rh-php73-php-pdo yum install rh-php73-php-devel yum install rh-php73-php-mysqlnd yum install rh-php73-php-fpm 3- Edit that file: /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf Put that content:
<FilesMatch \.php$> # SetHandler application/x-httpd-php SetHandler "proxy:fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000" </FilesMatch> 4- Reboot services to handle php-fpm:
systemctl restart rh-php73-php-fpm systemctl restart httpd 5- Enabling rh-php73-php-fpm service on boot time
systemctl enable rh-php73-php-fpm systemctl enable httpd 6- Create a symlink for the new php version.
mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/phpOLD ln -s /opt/rh/rh-php73/root/bin/php /usr/bin/php Steps (Use sudo only if required)
1) Remove OLD Apache
sudo service httpd stop sudo yum erase httpd httpd-tools apr apr-util 2) Remove OLD PHP
sudo yum remove php-* if it´s a clean installation start from here:
3) Install PHP 5.6 (Apache 2.4 will be automatically installed with this)
sudo yum install php56 4) Make sure all the required PHP extensions are installed
yum list installed | grep php 5) If not then install them using
sudo yum install php56-xml php56-xmlrpc php56-soap php56-gd 6) To list the other available php extensions
yum search php56 7) PHP 5.6 MySQL extension (Assume you have already installed MySQL)
sudo yum install php56-mysqlnd (NOTE: it is not php56-mysql)
8) Start / Restart Apache
sudo service httpd start sudo service httpd restart 9) Check the version
php -v httpd -v 
php56 isn't available