{"id":206,"date":"2015-12-09T21:59:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T05:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudinsidr.com\/content\/?p=206"},"modified":"2017-11-26T16:38:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T00:38:41","slug":"how-to-install-php-7-on-centos-7-red-hat-rhel-7-fedora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudinsidr.com\/content\/how-to-install-php-7-on-centos-7-red-hat-rhel-7-fedora\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install PHP 7 on Fedora, RHEL, CentOS 7 \u2014 the Red Hat family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Installing PHP on the Red Hat family\u2014Fedora, RHEL, CentOS 7\u2014is a must for cyber security and it’s not rocket science. With a few easy steps, you too can bring your PHP based web applications to the next level.<\/p>\n

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PHP 7\u00a0brings such profound improvements that\u00a0the lucky 7 as a version number\u00a0seems more than justified. The upgrade is easy, painless, and takes just a couple of quick steps. Here is how to do it.<\/p>\n

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RedHat has completed the transition of\u00a0RHEL\/Fedora<\/strong>\u00a0from yum<\/strong> to its next iteration,\u00a0DNF<\/strong> (dnf), short for dandified yum<\/em>. It supports\u00a0RPM<\/strong>, libsolv<\/strong>, and hawkey<\/strong> libraries. DNF (which inherited some qualities from both yum and aptitude) has been released for Fedora<\/a>\u00a0with user and admin guides<\/a>. Use it the way you would work with yum.<\/p>\n

To get your hands on a working installation of PHP 7, you can currently use either the old yum or dnf (here is the\u00a0command reference<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In Remi’s RPM repository, PHP RPMs have been renamed php70 in order to allow installation alongside the default PHP of your CentOS\/RHEL\/Fedora (if there is one on your system). The\u00a0FPM service (php70-php-fpm) listens on the default port 9000 so it may need adjusting should another version of PHP be already running.<\/p>\n

Follow these steps to install PHP 7 on CentOS with php-fpm, the server API or SAPI of choice for NGINX, using the Remi repository, on\u00a0x86_64.\u00a0You must be\u00a0root\u00a0(sudo su<\/span>\u00a0, otherwise prepend the relevant commands with sudo<\/span>\u00a0to execute them as root).<\/p>\n

Step 1. Get yourself the REMI\u00a0repo<\/h4>\n

Install the Remi repository (#remirepo for #fedora, #rhel and #centos) with these commands (you must be\u00a0root, see the paragraph above):<\/p>\n

wget http:\/\/rpms.remirepo.net\/enterprise\/remi-release-7.rpm \r\nsudo rpm -Uvh remi-release-7*.rpm<\/pre>\n
\u00a0Step 2. Install PHP 7<\/h4>\n
Install PHP 7 from the remi repository:<\/p>\n
yum --enablerepo=remi-php70 install php70-php<\/pre>\n
Step 3. Install PHP\u00a0extensions<\/h4>\n
Install PHP modules using\u00a0the remi repository (the example is a recommended configuration):<\/p>\n
yum --enablerepo=remi-php70 install php70-php-pear php70-php-bcmath php70-php-pecl-jsond-devel php70-php-mysqlnd php70-php-gd php70-php-common php70-php-fpm php70-php-intl php70-php-cli php70-php php70-php-xml php70-php-opcache php70-php-pecl-apcu php70-php-pecl-jsond php70-php-pdo php70-php-gmp php70-php-process php70-php-pecl-imagick php70-php-devel php70-php-mbstring php70-php-mcrypt<\/pre>\n
To find out which other extensions are available, use search with\u00a0yum:<\/p>\n
yum search php70<\/pre>\n
Speaking of extensions: ereg, mssql, sybase_ct and\u00a0mysql have been removed from PHP.<\/p>\n
In order to enable the remi repository only during software installation (that is: only when you need it), use the –enablerepo=remi<\/span>\u00a0 option with yum. For example like this:<\/p>\n
sudo yum --enablerepo=remi install php-tcpdf<\/pre>\n
To update your already installed packages using the Remi repository, you would\u00a0enter this command:<\/p>\n
yum --enablerepo=remi update remi-release<\/pre>\n
Step 4. Start PHP<\/h4>\n
To start PHP (once) use this command:<\/p>\n
service php70-php-fpm start<\/pre>\n
or<\/p>\n
systemctl start php70-php-fpm<\/pre>\n
Step 5.\u00a0Enable automatic launch of PHP 7 on system startup<\/h4>\n
Enable automatic launch of the PHP interpreter on system startup on CentOS 7\/Red Hat\/Fedora, use this command:<\/p>\n
systemctl enable php70-php-fpm<\/pre>\n
The\u00a0output of this command should resemble this line:<\/p>\n
ln -s '\/usr\/lib\/systemd\/system\/php70-php-fpm.service' '\/etc\/systemd\/system\/multi-user.target.wants\/php70-php-fpm.service'<\/pre>\n
You can\u00a0verify the current status of PHP 7 using this command:<\/p>\n
systemctl status php70-php-fpm\r\n\r\n[root@ip-16-0-0-170 centos]# systemctl status php70-php-fpm\r\nphp70-php-fpm.service - The PHP FastCGI Process Manager\r\nLoaded: loaded (\/usr\/lib\/systemd\/system\/php70-php-fpm.service; enabled)\r\nActive: active (running) since Thu 2015-12-10 05:29:25 UTC; 2s ago\r\nMain PID: 2102 (php-fpm)\r\nStatus: \"Ready to handle connections\"\r\nCGroup: \/system.slice\/php70-php-fpm.service\r\n\u251c\u25002102 php-fpm: master process (\/etc\/opt\/remi\/php70\/php-fpm.conf)\r\n\u251c\u25002103 php-fpm: pool www\r\n\u251c\u25002104 php-fpm: pool www\r\n\u251c\u25002105 php-fpm: pool www\r\n\u251c\u25002106 php-fpm: pool www\r\n\u2514\u25002107 php-fpm: pool www\r\n\r\nDec 10 05:29:25 ip-12-3-4-170.ec2.internal systemd[1]: Started The PHP FastCGI Process Manager.<\/pre>\n
This output also shows you that php-fpm pools, while running, have not been configured yet.<\/p>\n
If you also want to set up\u00a0MySQL\/MariaDB,\u00a0you may want to read:\u00a0High-Stakes, High-Security LEMP Setup: Nginx with MariaDB\/MySQL, and PHP 7.x on CentOS 7 (RHEL\/Fedora) with SELinux<\/a><\/p>\n
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