How to install PHP on CentOS 8

If you have installed your server with anything other then CentOS 8 please open a support ticket before following this guide, following this guide on any of our preinstalls or other OS choices can result in server errors that may cause irreparable errors

Requirements

• You will need to SSH into your dedicated server using the following guide How to SSH into your Dedicated Server
• This guide assumes you are logged into your server as root

Installing REMI repo

`yum install epel-release yum-utils

yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm`

Accept any prompts using y

Installing PHP

You may have multiple versions of PHP installed so to check this we can run the following command:

yum module list php

The output will show a list of all available modules, including the associated stream, version, and installation profiles.

The default PHP module is set to PHP 7.2. To install a newer PHP release, enable the appropriate version:

PHP 7.3

`dnf module reset php

dnf module enable php:remi-7.3`

PHP 7.4

`dnf module reset php

dnf module enable php:remi-7.4`

You are now ready to install PHP on your CentOS server.

The following command will install PHP and some of the most common PHP modules:

dnf install php php-opcache php-gd php-curl php-mysqlnd

FPM is installed as a dependency and used as a FastCGI server. Start the FPM service and enable it to automatically start on boot:

systemctl enable --now php-fpm

Updated on: 20/11/2021