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How to upgrade PHP to 7.4 on Centos 7

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Upgrade PHP to 7.4 in Centos 7.


Overview: This article describes the steps to upgrade the PHP version to 7.4 in Cent os.


  • Enter the following commands on the terminal to upgrade PHP:
   1 . To install the latest  PHP 7, you need to turn on EPEL and Remi repository.
 
 
root@gateway:~# yum install epel-release
 

root@gateway:~# yum install  http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

 2. Next, you need to install yum-util packages
 
root@gateway:~# yum install yum-utils -y
 3. Enable the remi repo as per the desired PHP version, For PHP 7.4.
 

If you want to install PHP 7.3, you can use the following command, 

root@gateway: ~ # yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73

root@gateway:~# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74

root@gateway:~# yum update 

 4. Now install PHP 7.4 with all necessary modules with the command below:
 
root@gateway:~# yum install php php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysql php-ldap php-zip php-process php-ldap

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