+1 SCL, as Johnny says this is what they are for. You can easily run multiple PHP versions via php-fpm, fastcgi etc. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "johnny" <johnny at centos.org> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Tuesday, 19 September, 2017 14:25:08 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS, PHP & OwnCloud/Nextcloud: the version dilemma > On 09/19/2017 06:41 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: >> 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. > > Or, how about you just use SCLs .. that is what they are for: > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-php56/ > > Or even > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-php70/ > > See: > > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos