How To Install PHP 7.4 on CentOS 7

This is a short guide on how to Install PHP 7.4 on CentOS 7 Linux system. The PHP Version 7.4.0 has been released in stabilization phase for the developers, and for users to test. This is not recommended to be run in Production, until the stable version of PHP 7.4 is made available to the general public. The expected official release date is November 28, 2019.

PHP 7.4 comes with a remarkable amount of new features. This version is RPM are available in the remi-php74 repository for Fedora ≥ 29 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 7 (RHEL, CentOS) and as Software Collection in the remi-safe repository (or remi for Fedora).

 

Step 1: Add EPEL and REMI Repository

Run the commands below to add required repositories.

 

sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

Step 2: Install PHP 7.4 on CentOS 7

We can now enable PHP 7.4 Remi repository and install PHP 7.4 on CentOS 7.

 

sudo yum -y install yum-utils
sudo yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74

Install PHP 7.4 on CentOS 7.

sudo yum update
sudo yum install php php-cli

Accept installation prompt.

Dependencies Resolved

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 Package                            Arch                         Version                                    Repository                        Size
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Installing:
 php                                x86_64                       7.4.0-1.el7.remi                           remi-php74                       3.4 M
 php-cli                            x86_64                       7.4.0-1.el7.remi                           remi-php74                       5.1 M
Installing for dependencies:
 apr                                x86_64                       1.4.8-5.el7                                base                             103 k
 apr-util                           x86_64                       1.5.2-6.el7                                base                              92 k
 centos-logos                       noarch                       70.0.6-3.el7.centos                        base                              21 M
 httpd                              x86_64                       2.4.6-90.el7.centos                        base                             2.7 M
 httpd-tools                        x86_64                       2.4.6-90.el7.centos                        base                              91 k
 mailcap                            noarch                       2.1.41-2.el7                               base                              31 k
 php-common                         x86_64                       7.4.0-1.el7.remi                           remi-php74                       1.1 M
 php-json                           x86_64                       7.4.0-1.el7.remi                           remi-php74                        68 k

Transaction Summary
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Install  2 Packages (+8 Dependent packages)

Total download size: 34 M
Installed size: 73 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
(1/10): httpd-tools-2.4.6-90.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm                                                                          |  91 kB  00:00:00     
(2/10): apr-1.4.8-5.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                                                          | 103 kB  00:00:01     
(3/10): mailcap-2.1.41-2.el7.noarch.rpm                                                                                     |  31 kB  00:00:00     
(4/10): apr-util-1.5.2-6.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                                                     |  92 kB  00:00:01     
(5/10): httpd-2.4.6-90.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm        | 2.7 MB   00:09     warning: /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/remi-php74/packages/php-common-7.4.0-1.el7.remi.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 00f97f56: NOKEY
Public key for php-common-7.4.0-1.el7.remi.x86_64.rpm is not installed
(6/10): php-common-7.4.0-1.el7.remi.x86_64.rpm      | 1.1 MB   00:09     
(7/10): php-json-7.4.0-1.el7.remi.x86_64.rpm        |  68 kB   00:01     
(8/10): php-7.4.0-1.el7.remi.x86_64.rpm             | 3.4 MB   00:13     
(9/10): php-cli-7.4.0-1.el7.remi.x86_64.rpm         | 5.1 MB   00:13     
(10/10): centos-logos-70.0.6-3.el7.centos.noarch.rp |  21 MB   00:31     
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                       1.1 MB/s |  34 MB  00:31     
Retrieving key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
Importing GPG key 0x00F97F56:
 Userid     : "Remi Collet <[email protected]>"
 Fingerprint: 1ee0 4cce 88a4 ae4a a29a 5df5 004e 6f47 00f9 7f56
 Package    : remi-release-7.7-1.el7.remi.noarch (installed)
 From       : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Use the next command to install additional packages:

sudo yum install php-xxx

Example:

sudo yum install php  php-cli php-fpm php-mysqlnd php-zip php-devel php-gd php-mcrypt php-mbstring php-curl php-xml php-pear php-bcmath php-json

The current PHP version should be 7.4.

$ php -v
PHP 7.4.0 (cli) (built: Nov 26 2019 20:13:36) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies

To view enabled modules, run:

$ php --modules

You have successfully installed PHP 7.4 on CentOS 7. Enjoy your PHP development/tests with this release.