Installing PHP 5.5x or 5.6x On Centos

This howto will instruct you how to correctly install PHP 5.5.or 5.6 on Official Centos installs.

1. Setup IUS Repository:

as root:
Centos 6: rpm -Uvh https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
Centos 7: rpm -Uvh https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm

rpm -Uvh https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
Retrieving https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.kNlmmL: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 9cd4953f: NOKEY
Preparing… ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing…
1:ius-release-1.0-14.ius.centos7 ################################# [100%]

Error:

rpm -Uvh https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
Retrieving https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.Fs8fPZ: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 9cd4953f: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
epel-release = 7 is needed by ius-release-1.0-14.ius.centos7.noarch

Fix:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/

or, as root:
Centos 6: rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
Centos 7: rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Retrieving https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.vTfUei: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 352c64e5: NOKEY
Preparing… ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing…
1:epel-release-7-5 ################################# [100%]
2. Install or update php:

Centos 6 Only:
sudo yum --enablerepo=ius list php55u*
sudo yum --enablerepo=ius install php55u*

sudo yum --enablerepo=ius list php56u*
sudo yum --enablerepo=ius install php56u*

Centos 7:
sudo yum --enablerepo=ius list php56u*


List php56u packages

Available Packages
php56u.x86_64
php56u-bcmath.x86_64
php56u-cli.x86_64
php56u-common.x86_64
php56u-dba.x86_64
php56u-dbg.x86_64
php56u-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-devel.x86_64
php56u-embedded.x86_64
php56u-enchant.x86_64
php56u-fpm.x86_64
php56u-gd.x86_64
php56u-gmp.x86_64
php56u-imap.x86_64
php56u-interbase.x86_64
php56u-intl.x86_64
php56u-ioncube-loader.x86_64
php56u-ioncube-loader-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-ldap.x86_64
php56u-litespeed.x86_64
php56u-mbstring.x86_64
php56u-mcrypt.x86_64
php56u-mssql.x86_64
php56u-mysqlnd.x86_64
php56u-odbc.x86_64
php56u-opcache.x86_64
php56u-pdo.x86_64
php56u-pear.noarch
php56u-pecl-apcu.x86_64
php56u-pecl-apcu-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-apcu-devel.x86_64
php56u-pecl-gearman.x86_64
php56u-pecl-gearman-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-geoip.x86_64
php56u-pecl-geoip-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-igbinary.x86_64
php56u-pecl-igbinary-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-igbinary-devel.x86_64
php56u-pecl-imagick.x86_64
php56u-pecl-imagick-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-jsonc.x86_64
php56u-pecl-jsonc-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-jsonc-devel.x86_64
php56u-pecl-krb5.x86_64
php56u-pecl-krb5-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-krb5-devel.x86_64
php56u-pecl-memcache.x86_64
php56u-pecl-memcache-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-memcached.x86_64
php56u-pecl-memcached-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-mongo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-mongo-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-pthreads.x86_64
php56u-pecl-pthreads-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-redis.x86_64
php56u-pecl-redis-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-uploadprogress.x86_64
php56u-pecl-uploadprogress-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pecl-xdebug.x86_64
php56u-pecl-xdebug-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-pgsql.x86_64
php56u-process.x86_64
php56u-pspell.x86_64
php56u-recode.x86_64
php56u-snmp.x86_64
php56u-soap.x86_64
php56u-tidy.x86_64
php56u-xcache.x86_64
php56u-xcache-admin.noarch
php56u-xcache-debuginfo.x86_64
php56u-xml.x86_64
php56u-xmlrpc.x86_64

sudo yum --enablerepo=ius install php56u*


Install php56u packages

Since no one needs all of the available php packages in one install, here’s a list of required packages for any install + a few extras that are very common.

Put this list into a text file:
php56u.x86_64
php56u-bcmath.x86_64
php56u-cli.x86_64
php56u-common.x86_64
php56u-fpm.x86_64
php56u-gd.x86_64
php56u-mbstring.x86_64
php56u-mcrypt.x86_64
php56u-mysqlnd.x86_64
php56u-opcache.x86_64
php56u-pdo.x86_64
php56u-xml.x86_64
php56u-xmlrpc.x86_64

Install with the following command below:

yum install `cat php56u.txt`

1	yum install `cat php56u.txt`

Agree to import the IUS RPM signing Keys:

Retrieving key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7
Importing GPG key 0x352C64E5:
Userid : “Fedora EPEL (7) ”
Fingerprint: 91e9 7d7c 4a5e 96f1 7f3e 888f 6a2f aea2 352c 64e5
Package : epel-release-7-5.noarch (installed)
From : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Retrieving key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/IUS-COMMUNITY-GPG-KEY
Importing GPG key 0x9CD4953F:
Userid : “IUS Community Project ”
Fingerprint: 8b84 6e3a b3fe 6462 74e8 670f da22 1cdf 9cd4 953f
Package : ius-release-1.0-14.ius.centos7.noarch (installed)
From : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/IUS-COMMUNITY-GPG-KEY
Is this ok [y/N]: y


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Check to make sure it’s been installed/updated:
rpm -qa | grep -i php

3. Replace the php.ini:

If you’ve already had php installed previously (i.e. you used the update method above) then run this command:

1. sudo cp /etc/php.ini /etc/php.ini_(backup)
2. sudo cp /etc/php.ini.rpmnew /etc/php.ini
3. sudo service httpd restart

If not then simply restart httpd:
sudo service httpd restart

Troubleshooting / How To Test

Explanation troubleshooting basics and expectations.

1. create and save a file called phpinfo.php in your httpd Documentroot with only this in it:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

1	<?php phpinfo(); ?>

2. Let’s go test and make sure we can see the current php version and other information:

Open a web browser and navigate to: http://www.example.com/phpinfo.php

3. Make sure httpd is started, also make sure you have correctly replaced the php.ini file if you had previously installed php from official Centos repos.

sudo service httpd status

Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #centoshelp on irc.freenode.net