Am 19.09.2017 um 15:25 schrieb Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org:
On 09/19/2017 06:41 AM, Leon Fauster wrote:
Am 19.09.2017 um 09:36 schrieb Nicolas Kovacs info@microlinux.fr:
I'm currently experimenting with OwnCloud and Nextcloud on a sandbox CentOS 7 server. I've been using OwnCloud for the last two years for my own purposes on a Slackware server, and I'm quite happy with it.
In my humble opinion, every admin who wants to host OwnCloud or Nextcloud on a RHEL/CentOS server is confronted with a version dilemma.
- CentOS 7 sports PHP 5.4, which has been officially EOL for quite some
time, but Red Hat will provide security update backports until 2024. Which is fine.
- Currently supported versions of Nextcloud (namely the 11.x and 12.x
branch) require a minimum of PHP 5.6. Which seems reasonable. But if I pull in PHP 5.6 from Webtatic, for example, I only get the "official" PHP support, which will end in 2018 for the 5.6 branch. And no security backports.
Try to ask upstream (bugzilla) to evaluate an officially upgrade from 5.4 to 5.6, that would give you support until EOL of EL7.
Or, how about you just use SCLs .. that is what they are for:
SCL's support for rh-php56 has ended (April 2018).
PHP's official support until 31 Dec 2018.
Or even
SCL's support until Nov 2019.
PHP's official support until 3 Dec 2018.
So, reasonable.
See:
Expecting that the next SCL release will provide PHP 7.1.
SCL packages should be preferred, instead of using 3rd party repositories (not arguing against any of them - more focusing manageability, integration, dependencies etc.).
-- LF