A Beginner-Friendly Guide for Linux / Start Learning Linux Quickly...

How to Install PHP 7.3 in CentOS 7

Categories CentOS, PHP 27 Comments

The CentOS 7 official software repositories have PHP 5.4 which has reached the end of life and no longer actively maintained by the developers.

To keep up with the latest features and security updates, you need a newer (probably the latest) version of PHP on your CentOS 7 system.

For the purpose of this guide, we will be operating the system as root, if that is not the case for you, make use of the sudo command to acquire root privileges.

Installing PHP 7 on CentOS 7

1. To install PHP 7, you have to install and enable EPEL and Remi repository on your CentOS 7 system with the commands below.

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

2. Next, you need to install yum-utils, a collection of useful programs for managing yum repositories and packages. It has tools that basically extend yum’s default features.

It can be used for managing (enabling or disabling) yum repositories as well as packages without any manual configuration and so much more.

# yum install yum-utils

3. One of the programs provided by yum-utils is yum-config-manager, which you can use to enable Remi repository as the default repository for installing different PHP versions as shown.

# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php70   [Install PHP 7.0]

If you want to install PHP 7.1, PHP 7.2 or PHP 7.3 on CentOS 7, just enable it as shown.

# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php71   [Install PHP 7.1]
# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php72   [Install PHP 7.2]
# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73   [Install PHP 7.3]

4. Now install PHP 7 with all necessary modules with the command below.

# yum install php php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysql php-ldap php-zip php-fileinfo

Afterwards, double check the installed version of PHP on your system.

# php -v
Check PHP Version in CentOS 7
Check PHP Version in CentOS 7

Lastly, below is a list of useful PHP articles that you can read for additional information:

  1. How to Use and Execute PHP Codes in Linux Command Line
  2. How to Find MySQL, PHP and Apache Configuration Files
  3. How to Test PHP MySQL Database Connection Using Script
  4. How to Run PHP Script as Normal User with Cron

In this article, we have explained how to install PHP 7 on CentOS 7 Linux. You can send us any questions or additional thoughts via the feedback form below.

If you read this far, tweet to the author to show them you care. Tweet a thanks

Previous article:

Install a Complete Mail Server with Postfix and Webmail in Debian 9

Next article:

How to Recover or Rescue Corrupted Grub Boot Loader in CentOS 7
Photo of author
Aaron Kili
Aaron Kili is a Linux and F.O.S.S enthusiast, an upcoming Linux SysAdmin, web developer, and currently a content creator for TecMint who loves working with computers and strongly believes in sharing knowledge.

Each tutorial at TecMint is created by a team of experienced Linux system administrators so that it meets our high-quality standards.

Join the TecMint Weekly Newsletter (More Than 156,129 Linux Enthusiasts Have Subscribed)
Was this article helpful? Please add a comment or buy me a coffee to show your appreciation.

Related Posts

27 thoughts on “How to Install PHP 7.3 in CentOS 7”

  1. I have a problem in the third step when I entered the code of PHP 7.3 then it shown the message command not found.

    Reply

  2. Hey,

    Maybe a stupid question. But how can we start and restart PHP without rebooting the server? 

    PHP 7.4.4 (cli) (built: Mar 17 2020 10:40:21) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies

    When we do [systemctl restart php74] results in Failed to restart php74.service: Unit not found.

    When we do [systemctl | grep php] not a single result is returned. Is php74.service not running? Or is it part of something else cause we installed it with the yum manager or something?

    Regards Jerome.

    Reply

    • @Jerome,

      PHP is a just programming language that doesn’t have a service to start, you just need to restart the Apache or Nginx webserver to reflect changes you made to any configuration files of PHP.

      # systemctl restart httpd
OR
# systemctl restart nginx
      Reply

  3. When running command : yum-config-manager --enable remi-php70

    this results, is this okay?

    ================================= repo: remi-php72 ==================================
[remi-php72]
async = True
bandwidth = 0
base_persistdir = /var/lib/yum/repos/x86_64/latest
baseurl = 
cache = 0
cachedir = /var/cache/yum/x86_64/latest/remi-php72
check_config_file_age = True
compare_providers_priority = 80
cost = 1000
deltarpm_metadata_percentage = 100
deltarpm_percentage = 
enabled = True
enablegroups = True
exclude = 
failovermethod = priority
ftp_disable_epsv = False
gpgcadir = /var/lib/yum/repos/x86_64/latest/remi-php72/gpgcadir
gpgcakey = 
gpgcheck = True
gpgdir = /var/lib/yum/repos/x86_64/latest/remi-php72/gpgdir
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
hdrdir = /var/cache/yum/x86_64/latest/remi-php72/headers
http_caching = all
includepkgs = 
ip_resolve = 
keepalive = True
keepcache = False
mddownloadpolicy = sqlite
mdpolicy = group:small
mediaid = 
metadata_expire = 21600
metadata_expire_filter = read-only:present
metalink = 
minrate = 0
mirrorlist = http://cdn.remirepo.net/enterprise/7/php72/mirror
mirrorlist_expire = 86400
name = Remi's PHP 7.2 RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64
old_base_cache_dir = 
password = 
persistdir = /var/lib/yum/repos/x86_64/latest/remi-php72
pkgdir = /var/cache/yum/x86_64/latest/remi-php72/packages
priority = 99
proxy = False
proxy_dict = 
proxy_password = 
proxy_username = 
repo_gpgcheck = False
report_instanceid = False
retries = 3
skip_if_unavailable = False
ssl_check_cert_permissions = True
sslcacert = 
sslclientcert = 
sslclientkey = 
sslverify = True
throttle = 0
timeout = 5.0
ui_id = remi-php72
ui_repoid_vars = releasever,
   basearch
username =
    Reply

  4. Hey, how to Remove the PHP installed by this tutorial, I used this tutorial to install PHP 7.2 and now I wanted to remove it, It Not showing in Package On in -> 

    $ which php
/usr/local/bin/php

    $ whereis php
php: /usr/bin/php /usr/lib/php /usr/local/bin/php

    What is the Solution ?

    Reply

Got something to say? Join the discussion.

Have a question or suggestion? Please leave a comment to start the discussion. Please keep in mind that all comments are moderated and your email address will NOT be published.