PHP 7.3 is the latest stable release of PHP. May of popular yum repositories is providing rpm packages for PHP 7. This article is using Remi and EPEL yum repositories for installing required packages on your system. This article will help you to install PHP 7.3, PHP 7.2, PHP 7.1 on CentOS & RHEL 6 systems.
Configure Yum Repository
First of all, you need to enable Remi and EPEL yum repositories on your system. Use the following command to install EPEL repository on your CentOS and Red Hat 7/6 systems
Use this command to install epel-release yum repository
yum install epel-release
and now execute one of the following commands as per your operating system version to install Remi repository.
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
Install PHP 7 on CentOS 6
Your system is prepared for the PHP installation from yum repositories. Use one of the following commands to install PHP 7.3 or PHP 7.2 or PHP 7.1 on your system based on your requirements.
## Install PHP 7.3 yum --enablerepo=remi-php73 install php ## Install PHP 7.2 yum --enablerepo=remi-php72 install php ## Install PHP 7.1 yum --enablerepo=remi-php71 install php
I have installed the latest version PHP 7.3 on my system. Now running the following command to check current active PHP version on my system.
php -v PHP 7.3.11 (cli) (built: Oct 22 2019 12:34:50) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.3.11, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
Install PHP Modules
You may also need to install additional PHP modules based on your application requirements. Below command will install some more useful PHP modules.
### For PHP 7.3 yum --enablerepo=remi-php73 install php-xml php-soap php-xmlrpc php-mbstring php-json php-gd php-mcrypt ### For PHP 7.2 yum --enablerepo=remi-php72 install php-xml php-soap php-xmlrpc php-mbstring php-json php-gd php-mcrypt ### For PHP 7.1 yum --enablerepo=remi-php71 install php-xml php-soap php-xmlrpc php-mbstring php-json php-gd php-mcrypt
You can run the following command to search other available PHP modules under configured yum repositories. Below example command search for all modules for PHP 7.3.
yum --enablerepo=remi-php73 search php | grep php73 php73.x86_64 : Package that installs PHP 7.3 php73-php.x86_64 : PHP scripting language for creating dynamic web sites php73-php-bcmath.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications for using the bcmath php73-php-brotli.x86_64 : Brotli Extension for PHP php73-php-cli.x86_64 : Command-line interface for PHP php73-php-common.x86_64 : Common files for PHP ... ...
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does anyone know how to fix this conflict?
ea-apache24 conflicts with httpd-2.2.15-69.el6.centos.x86_64
This works, many thanks!
That installed on my CentOS 6.10 system without a hitch (that I can see so far)
Thanks for the fabulous work!
I am one among those unlucky fellas.. if anybody has information regarding this error, please kindly inform me.. it will be a huge favour..
I am getting this error after the upgrade..
when i typed php –version
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘apc.so’ (tried: /usr/lib64/php/modules/apc.so (/usr/l
ib64/php/modules/apc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib64/php/modules/apc.
so.so (/usr/lib64/php/modules/apc.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown
on line 0
PHP 7.2.21 (cli) (built: Jul 30 2019 15:00:44) ( NTS )
And when I try to sudo service httpd restart
I am getting this error
Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 17 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/httpd/conf/php.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/libphp5.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/libphp5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Thanks it served me a lot
I am getting this error when installing php7.3 on Centos 6.10. (upgrading php from v5.3)
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘suhosin.so’ (tried: /usr/lib64/php/modules/suhosin.so (/usr/lib64/php/modules/suhosin.so: undefined symbol: _zval_copy_ctor_func), /usr/lib64/php/modules/suhosin.so.so (/usr/lib64/php/modules/suhosin.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0
Thank you Rahull, worked went perfectly.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the community.
How to switch between multiple version php in CentOS7?
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial. Everything works except when I go to localhost/phpmyadmin all I see is computer code – something is not being interpreted or parsed.