On 3/15/19 12:51 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
As you all know, CentOS 7 is shipping PHP 5.4, which is OK in some
situations. Unfortunately, some applications like OwnCloud require a
more recent version of PHP.
Up until recently, I've been using PHP 5.6 packages from the Webtatic
repository. Despite the bad press this third party repo seems to have,
it has been working perfectly for me for a few years. Here's the PHP 5.6
packages I have on an OwnCloud server:
$ rpm -qa | grep php
php56w-devel-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-pdo-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-gd-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-mysql-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-process-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-pear-1.10.4-1.w7.noarch
php56w-common-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-xml-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-pecl-redis-3.1.6-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-cli-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-mcrypt-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-mbstring-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-pecl-igbinary-2.0.5-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-pecl-apcu-4.0.11-2.w7.x86_64
php56w-intl-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
php56w-soap-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64
Now I'll have to upgrade these to some version of PHP 7. So I googled
"php 7 centos 7" and found quite a wealth of - sometimes contradictory -
information.
1. The "recommended" way of doing things seems to be the Red Hat
Software Collections. Correct me if I'm wrong. I wonder if this way of
doing things will enable me to get all the PHP modules listed above.
2. The use of Webtatic seems to be frowned upon. I still have to figure
out why, since this repository has always worked perfectly for me.
3. Then there's another repository managed by Remi Collet. Any thoughts
on that?
And then there's also the question : which version of PHP 7 should I
choose ? On my servers, I'm mainly hosting WordPress, Dolibarr and
OwnCloud.
Any suggestions ? I'm no lamer for doing a bit of RTFM, so a pointer to
documentation will do. The problem is not so much that there is no
information on the subject. It's rather : there's too much. As we say in
France : I'm confused about which saint to send my prayers to. :o)
Cheers,
Niki
I package PHP 7.3.x linked against LibreSSL rather than OpenSSL.
I also package MariaDB 10.2.x and updated Apache.
Right now there is a yum install issue - you have to manually remove the
mariadb libs from 5.x to install. The dependencies are met, yum just
can't figure it out.
https://lirelamp.com/
Some of my documentation is a bit out of date, but no one is paying me,
so...
I do things differently than "software collections" - my philosophy is
to just replace the system provided versions rather than put them in /opt.
I have that philosophy because I prefer to set up a VPS for a purpose
and if that purpose is a LAMP stack I don't see the point of keeping the
crusty MariaDB / PHP in place so I just replace them with modern
versions which largely are modified when needed Fedora spec files.
With the exception that I build against LibreSSL instead of against OpenSSL.
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