Days ago I had to upgrade to PHP 7.1 on the nixcp.com server, it was a major upgrade since I was running PHP 5.6.x.
This was on the top of my todo list after I read that PHP 7.1 was 20% faster than PHP 7.0 (and we all know PHP 7.0 is around twice as fast as PHP 5.6.x), as I am obsessed with web speed and web performance, this was the chance to test PHP 7.1 and its benefits.
Install PHP 7.1 on CentOS 7 Step by Step
After I researched if all my PHP apps were compatible, I started the upgrade process from PHP 5.6.x to PHP 7.1 on CentOS 7.x 64 bits. This is the procedure I used on my server.
Get a list of all your current PHP Packages, just in case:
rpm -qa | grep php
It should look similar to this:
[[email protected]:~]rpm -qa | grep php php-common-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-pear-1.10.3-1.el7.remi.noarch php-pecl-memcache-3.0.8-4.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 php-devel-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-mysqlnd-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-mcrypt-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php56-php-common-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-cli-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-pecl-jsonc-devel-1.3.10-2.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 php-pecl-igbinary-2.0.1-1.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 php-gd-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-mbstring-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php56-runtime-2.1-5.el7.remi.x86_64 php56-php-pecl-msgpack-0.5.7-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-pecl-jsonc-1.3.10-2.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 php-xml-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-process-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-xcache-3.2.0-1.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 php-pecl-memcached-2.2.0-3.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 php-soap-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-opcache-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php56-php-pecl-jsonc-1.3.10-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php56-php-pecl-igbinary-2.0.1-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-pdo-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-fpm-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php56-php-pecl-zip-1.13.5-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-pecl-zip-1.13.5-1.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 php-pecl-msgpack-0.5.7-1.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 php-xmlrpc-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 [[email protected]:~]
Install Remi Repo for CentOS 7.x
I already had Remi’s repo installed, but if you don’t, you can do it using this commands:
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm rpm -Uvh remi-release-7.rpm
After that, enable PHP-71 packages from your Remi repo, run this command:
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php71
Expected outpout:
[[email protected]:~]yum-config-manager --enable remi-php71 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks ==== repo: remi-php71 ======= [remi-php71] async = True bandwidth = 0 base_persistdir = /var/lib/yum/repos/x86_64/7 baseurl = cache = 0 cachedir = /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/remi-php71 check_config_file_age = True compare_providers_priority = 80 cost = 1000 deltarpm_metadata_percentage = 100 deltarpm_percentage = enabled = True enablegroups = True ... ... ...
Then run yum update:
yum update -y
If you are not upgrading, and just want to install PHP 7.1 on CentOS 7, just run:
yum install php php-devel php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-soap php-mysqlnd
It should update all your current PHP packages to PHP 7.1, as you see below:
If you get this issue:
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
** Found 1 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
php-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 has missing requires of httpd-mmn = ('0', '20120211x8664', None)It can be fixed by installing httpd package, which I don’t use but it is required:
yum install httpd -y
After that I disabled httpd from the boot process to ensure it won’t try to boot along with Nginx and cause a port 80 conflict:
systemctl disable httpd
Remove Xcache, because as far as I see it is not available for PHP 7.1.x
yum remove php-xcache* -y
If you preserve Xcache it may lead into a yum error as you see below:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: 1:php-xcache-3.2.0-1.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 (@remi-php56) Requires: php(zend-abi) = 20131226-64 Removing: php-common-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (@remi-php56) php(zend-abi) = 20131226-64 Updated By: php-common-7.1.3-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (remi-php71) php(zend-abi) = 20160303-64 Available: php-common-5.4.16-42.el7.x86_64 (base) php(zend-abi) = 20100525-64 Available: php-common-5.6.29-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56) php(zend-abi) = 20131226-64 Available: php-common-7.1.2-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (remi-php71) php(zend-abi) = 20160303-64 Error: Package: 1:php-xcache-3.2.0-1.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 (@remi-php56) Requires: php(api) = 20131106-64 Removing: php-common-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (@remi-php56) php(api) = 20131106-64 Updated By: php-common-7.1.3-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (remi-php71) php(api) = 20160303-64 Available: php-common-5.4.16-42.el7.x86_64 (base) php(api) = 20100412-64 Available: php-common-5.6.29-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56) php(api) = 20131106-64 Available: php-common-7.1.2-1.el7.remi.x86_64 (remi-php71) php(api) = 20160303-64 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
One thing I noticed: a few packages are still from PHP 5.6 version:
[[email protected]:~]rpm -qa | grep php56 php56-php-common-5.6.30-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php56-runtime-2.1-5.el7.remi.x86_64 php56-php-pecl-msgpack-0.5.7-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php56-php-pecl-jsonc-1.3.10-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php56-php-pecl-igbinary-2.0.1-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php56-php-pecl-zip-1.13.5-1.el7.remi.x86_64
Remove those and install the 7.1 versions from Remi:
yum remove php56*
yum install yum install php71-php-common php71-runtime php71-php-pecl-msgpack php71-php-pecl-jsonc php71-php-pecl-igbinary php71-php-pecl-zip
And the upgrade from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.1 was complete.
Finally, ensure you restart your http and php-fpm to apply changes:
systemctl restart nginx systemctl restart php-fpm
That’s all, now you know how to upgrade or install PHP 7.1 on CentOS 7. Please let me know if you have any questions or problems following this tutorial.