How to install PHP 7 on EC2 t2.micro Instance running Amazon Linux Distro

Question

I want to install the latest PHP 7.0 on an AWS EC2 T2.Micro Instance. So far I have read that currently AWS do not support PHP 7. But hey.. This is just a virtual server in

Answer 1

I got this running on my instance. You need http2.2 for it to work with the webtatic repo. I had so many repos there were a bunch of different version incompatibilities. I didn't keep great notes but looking at my history I basically did this:

# Remove current php & apache
sudo service httpd stop
sudo yum remove httpd* php* 

# Remove any third party repos that aren't relevant
sudo yum repolist
sudo yum remove remi-safe

# Install Standard Apache for Amazon AMI
sudo yum install httpd   #specify http22 if you get a different version

# Download webtatic
mkdir -p /tmp/php7
cd /tmp/php7
wget https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm

# Install webtatic repo
sudo yum install latest.rpm
sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/webtatic.repo  'set repo enables
sudo yum clean all

# Install base php7
sudo yum install --enablerepo=webtatic php70w
php -v   #Should say something like  PHP 7.0.2 (cli) (built: Jan  9 2016 16:09:32) ( NTS )
sudo yum install php70w-opcache
sudo yum install php70w-xml
sudo yum install php70w-pdo
sudo yum install php70w-mysqlnd
sudo yum install php70w-gd
sudo yum install php70w-apcu
sudo yum install php70w-pecl-apcu
sudo yum install php70w-mbstring
sudo yum install php70w-imap

# Restart apache
sudo service httpd restart