Am 19.09.2017 um 09:36 schrieb Nicolas Kovacs <info at 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. > > 1. 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. > > 2. 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. -- LF