On 3/15/19 12:51 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > As you all know, CentOS 7 is shipping PHP 5.4, which is OK in some > situations. Unfortunately, some applications like OwnCloud require a > more recent version of PHP. > > Up until recently, I've been using PHP 5.6 packages from the Webtatic > repository. Despite the bad press this third party repo seems to have, > it has been working perfectly for me for a few years. Here's the PHP 5.6 > packages I have on an OwnCloud server: > > $ rpm -qa | grep php > php56w-devel-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-pdo-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-gd-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-mysql-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-process-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-pear-1.10.4-1.w7.noarch > php56w-common-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-xml-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-pecl-redis-3.1.6-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-cli-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-mcrypt-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-mbstring-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-pecl-igbinary-2.0.5-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-pecl-apcu-4.0.11-2.w7.x86_64 > php56w-intl-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > php56w-soap-5.6.40-1.w7.x86_64 > > Now I'll have to upgrade these to some version of PHP 7. So I googled > "php 7 centos 7" and found quite a wealth of - sometimes contradictory - > information. > > 1. The "recommended" way of doing things seems to be the Red Hat > Software Collections. Correct me if I'm wrong. I wonder if this way of > doing things will enable me to get all the PHP modules listed above. > > 2. The use of Webtatic seems to be frowned upon. I still have to figure > out why, since this repository has always worked perfectly for me. > > 3. Then there's another repository managed by Remi Collet. Any thoughts > on that? > > And then there's also the question : which version of PHP 7 should I > choose ? On my servers, I'm mainly hosting WordPress, Dolibarr and > OwnCloud. > > Any suggestions ? I'm no lamer for doing a bit of RTFM, so a pointer to > documentation will do. The problem is not so much that there is no > information on the subject. It's rather : there's too much. As we say in > France : I'm confused about which saint to send my prayers to. :o) > > Cheers, > > Niki > I package PHP 7.3.x linked against LibreSSL rather than OpenSSL. I also package MariaDB 10.2.x and updated Apache. Right now there is a yum install issue - you have to manually remove the mariadb libs from 5.x to install. The dependencies are met, yum just can't figure it out. https://lirelamp.com/ Some of my documentation is a bit out of date, but no one is paying me, so... I do things differently than "software collections" - my philosophy is to just replace the system provided versions rather than put them in /opt. I have that philosophy because I prefer to set up a VPS for a purpose and if that purpose is a LAMP stack I don't see the point of keeping the crusty MariaDB / PHP in place so I just replace them with modern versions which largely are modified when needed Fedora spec files. With the exception that I build against LibreSSL instead of against OpenSSL.