Category: centos

Upgrading PHP to PHP7.0 in a CentOS server with Vesta CP

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Latest VestaCP comes with PHP5.6 by default. In this article, we will see how to upgrade PHP to it’s latest version, i.e PHP7.0

First, we need to add the correct REMI repository and enable remi update, remi release and remi-php70 repository. Here’s how


wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-7.rpm epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum --enablerepo=remi update remi-release
yum --enablerepo=remi-php70

Now stop apache2 and remove the existing php package that comes with VestaCP


service httpd stop
yum -y remove php

Now install PHP 7.0

yum install php70-php
yum install php70-php-pear php70-php-bcmath php70-php-pecl-jsond-devel php70-php-mysqlnd php70-php-gd php70-php-common php70-php-fpm php70-php-intl php70-php-cli php70-php php70-php-xml php70-php-opcache php70-php-pecl-apcu php70-php-pecl-jsond php70-php-pdo php70-php-gmp php70-php-process php70-php-pecl-imagick php70-php-devel php70-php-mbstring

After this step, all you need to do is stop the old php-fpm service and start the new one

service php-fpm stop
service php70-php-fpm start

At some point, you may also want to create a global alias ‘php’ to run php70 cli, like this

ln -s /usr/bin/php70 /usr/bin/php

And you’re done 🙂

Upgrading PHP to 5.5 in a CentOS 6 server with Vesta CP

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Vesta CP comes with PHP 5.4 by default. If you want to upgrade it to 5.5, follow these steps

1. Stop Apache and Remove current PHP
[sourcecode language=”shell”]
service httpd stop
yum -y remove php
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2. Add remi repository
[sourcecode language=”shell”]
#For 32 Bit OS
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm

#For 64Bit OS
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm
[/sourcecode]

3. Enable Remi Repository
open /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo and add 1 beside enabled for both [remi] and [remi-php55], as shown in the screenshot
Screen Shot 2014-06-03 at 8.44.47 PM

4. Install PHP 5.5
[sourcecode language=”shell”]
yum -y install php php-bcmath php-cli php-common php-gd php-imap php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mysql php-pdo php-soap php-tidy php-xml php-xmlrpc php-pecl-apc phpMyAdmin roundcubemail php-opcache php-xdebug
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Step 5: Cleanup, linking and finishing
[sourcecode language=”shell”]
mv -f /etc/php.ini.rpmsave /etc/php.ini
mv -f /etc/roundcubemail/db.inc.php.rpmsave /etc/roundcubemail/db.inc.php
mv -f /etc/roundcubemail/main.inc.php.rpmsave /etc/roundcubemail/main.inc.php
mv -f /etc/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php.rpmsave /etc/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php
mv -f /etc/httpd/conf.d/roundcubemail.conf.rpmsave /etc/httpd/conf.d/roundcubemail.conf
mv -f /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf.rpmsave /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
service httpd start
[/sourcecode]

And you’re done 🙂 Enjoy!