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Upgrade from PHP 5.X.X to PHP 7 on an AWS EC2 Linux Server
#!/bin/bash
echo "==============================="
echo "Installing PHP 7"
echo "==============================="
sudo yum install php70
echo "==============================="
echo "Installing PHP 7 additional commonly used php packages"
echo "==============================="
sudo yum install php70-gd
sudo yum install php70-imap
sudo yum install php70-mbstring
sudo yum install php70-mysqlnd
sudo yum install php70-opcache
sudo yum install php70-pecl-apcu
echo "==============================="
echo "Linking PHP 7"
echo "==============================="
sudo ln -sf /etc/httpd/conf.d/php-conf.7.0 /etc/alternatives/php.conf
sudo ln -sf /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/15-php-conf.7.0 /etc/alternatives/10-php.conf
echo "==============================="
echo "Choose PHP 7 as an Alternative"
echo "==============================="
sudo alternatives --config php
@vijayk2017
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how to select php 7 for specific project on on my one vhost on ec2

@luiscordero29
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Muchas Gracias, por el aporte!

@mrf
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mrf commented Oct 23, 2017

Super solid, saved me a ton of time stringing this together myself.

@LondonWebFactory
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You are a star! Many thanks.

@doctortheisen
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Rock 'n roll! Thanks for putting this together and sharing.

@asmendez
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asmendez commented Jan 9, 2018

Hello
Do you know, how can I do it in "Amazon Linux 2.0 (2017.12) LTS Release Candidate?

It seems that default repository do not have php70 package

@blasto333
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Will this allow php56 packages to stay installed? Could I switch to php56 after installing php 7?

@lambfrier
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@asmendez re:

Do you know, how can I do it in "Amazon Linux 2.0 (2017.12) LTS Release Candidate?

Maybe start with this:
amazon-linux-extras install php7.2

https://stackoverflow.com/a/50673146/7010923

@nugluke
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nugluke commented Jun 8, 2018

awesome work! thanks 👍

@darrowj
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darrowj commented Jul 16, 2018

Thank you very much for this. I have been avoiding this upgrade for a while. I kept running into issues with the existing php5.6 version on my server. This did the trick perfectly. Many thanks.

@kirilledelman
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Thank you! Worked without mangling up my configuration.

@kilinkis
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kilinkis commented Aug 3, 2018

thank you buddy

@NLeone
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NLeone commented Sep 8, 2018

Sorry, a query, it is not necessary to uninstall php5.6 first? how would the process for such an uninstall be, thank you very much! Regards!

@SupaMic
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SupaMic commented Dec 27, 2018

Awesome!! this also seemed to work seamlessly with PHP 7.2 by replacing all the 70 or 7.0 to 72 or 7.2!

@juaniemen
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TY so much!

@alangumer
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Useful, thanks!

@gbutiri
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gbutiri commented May 10, 2019

Few hiccups, but those were on my end. Great job! Thank you!! As an alternative, I would offer the command line sudo update-alternatives --config php

@fmangat
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fmangat commented Dec 19, 2019

thank you so much

@mavieth
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mavieth commented Dec 19, 2019

thank you so much

No problem I'am glad that you found it useful!

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