Need help understanding php56w

[rtcary]

I need to have php 5.6 in order to run Concrete5, so I

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yum install php56w php56w-opcache

on my Centos 7 server.

However I do not know how to make it the version that httpd uses. When I run my testphp.php, the old version is still running. Is php56w the same as the Centos 7 version -- 5.4.16?

Many thanks for any help...

Todd

[TrevorH]

We do not recommend the use of the webtatic repo at all.

If you need an alternative php version then look at either IUS or one of the SCL packages. You will need to completely remove the old php before installing from IUS. The SCL packages install alongside the existing version and need special action to make them active.

[rtcary]

Thank you. That is the kind of information I need.

\rtc

[rtcary]

Whooops! Forgot to ask how to install the IUS php56u package once I have removed php.

[TrevorH]

First hit on a google for "ius repo" : https://ius.io/GettingStarted/

[rtcary]

When I went to ithe ndicated site and executed the link for Centos 7, I got the following:

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https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
bash: https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm: No such file or directory

Unfortunately, my knowledge about the use of libraries is limited. This is due in part by the fact that once I get my server up and running, I seldom need to do anything (why I like centos)...it just runs. This is comparison to those who's daily job is keeping Linux based servers running/maintained (greatly admire them).

Todd

[rtcary]

I came upon this sequence and would like to get the opinion of people more knowledgeable than me to get an opinion on whether it should work. I do not want to find myself in a situation where I may do harm to my my LAMP configuration. Of course, I'd remove the current php before installing 5.6.

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yum -y update
yum -y install epel-release
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
wget https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
rpm -Uvh ius-release*.rpm
yum -y update
yum -y install php56u php56u-opcache php56u-xml php56u-mcrypt php56u-gd php56u-devel php56u-mysql php56u-intl php56u-mbstring php56u-bcmath php56u-soap

[jakepogo]

rtcary - First, please excuse me if I am being out of line but please don't do things like this until you FULLY understand what you are doing.

Okay First, adding the -y flag all over the place is asking for trouble. That "-y" automatically answers a question "Yes" that you should really be thinking about before answering, why would it ask you a question at all if the answer doesn't matter enough to answer?

Next, your yum install epel-release and the next line starting with "wget" are doing the same exact thing. Getting the repository linked using the Yellowdog (YUM) command would be my choice here, (of course without that -y).

The "rpm" line installs the repository using the rpm downloaded by the wget statement two lines up that I told you not to do. If you do choose to use the yum statement you won't need to do that (it does happen behind the scenes, but you dont need to run it)

Finally the "yum (-y) update" statement just checks all of your packages to see if new versions of them have been added to any of the repositories you are linked to, that being said theres really no reason you would want to run it twice in a short amount of time. I am on board with running yum update BEFORE you do something like this but not twice.

All these things being said here is what I personally recommend:

yum update all
yum install epel-release
wget https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm (Do you have Centos 6? This link would be different for Centos 7 which is what I thought we were talking about...)
yum install php56u php56u-opcache php56u-xml php56u-mcrypt php56u-gd php56u-devel php56u-mysql php56u-intl php56u-mbstring php56u-bcmath php56u-soap