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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
@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

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fmangat commented Dec 19, 2019

thank you so much

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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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