Install or Upgrade PHP to PHP7 on CentOS 7 Linux server

How to Install/Upgrade PHP on CentOS 7 Linux

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this guide help you to install or upgrade existing PHP 5 with PHP 7 on CentOS 7 Linux server using Remi Repository.

Check the current PHP version

In this example when we run php version command showing us the PHP version 5.6

1. First we download Remi and EPEL Repository packages

   wget -q http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

   wget -q https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

2. after download complete now we need to Enable Remi and EPEL Repository , we can enable PHP 70 ,PHP 71

   rpm -Uvh remi-release-7.rpm epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

   FOR PHP 7.0

   yum-config-manager –enable remi-php70

   FOR PHP 7.1

   yum-config-manager –enable remi-php71

3. Now we are ready to install or upgrade the PHP to php version 7

   FOR New Installation

   yum install php

   FOR Upgrade

   yum update

4. Now check again the currnet PHP version :

   php –version

   PHP 7.1.0 (cli) (built: Dec 1 2016 08:13:15) ( NTS )

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