install-php-7-on-centos-

1. Login via SSH and update the system software

To install PHP 7 on an CentOS VPS, you need to login to your server via SSH. Once you are logged in, update all your system software to the latest version using the command below:

yum update

2. Add the required repositories to yum

Once the update of your system is completed, you can go ahead and add the required repositories to yum.

rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm

3. Install PHP 7

Now, install PHP 7 using the following command:

yum install php70w

4. Verify the PHP 7 installation

The installation should take a few moments. Once it is completed, you can ensure that the latest stable release of PHP 7 is installed on your system by using the command:

php -v

You should see something like this:

PHP 7.0.0 (cli) (built: Dec  2 2015 20:42:32) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies

5. Search all available PHP 7 modules

If you like to search all the available PHP 7 modules you can use to command:

yum search php70w

6. Install specific PHP 7 module

To install specific PHP 7 modules like the module that allows PHP applications to use MySQL databases, you can use the command below:

yum install php70w-mysql

7. Test PHP 7 functionality

To test the functionality of PHP 7 on your CentOS VPS you can create a simple PHP info file and place it in your web server’s document root. Navigate to your web server’s document root:

cd /var/www/html/

Create a PHP info file using nano:

nano info.php

Paste the following content into that file:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Save the file and close it. Also, change the ownership of the file and make Apache the owner of that file:

chown apache: info.php

8. Restart Apache Server

Do not forget to restart your Apache web server if you haven’t restarted it yet so the installation changes can take effect:

systemctl restart httpd

The last thing is to access the file using a web browser. Open your favorite web browser and navigate to the following address:

http://111.111.111.111/info.php