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

The php 7 package name is php70w. So what you can do is, install a Webtatic repo on you linux machine and install it from there.

rpm -ivh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm
yum clean all
yum install --enablerepo=webtatic php70w

Answer 2

If you want a quick copy-paste install:

wget http://mirrors.mediatemple.net/remi/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
sudo yum install -y remi-release-6.rpm
sudo yum update -y
sudo yum install -y --enablerepo=epel php70

Test with:

php70 -v

And if you want the executable to be php:

ln -s /usr/bin/php70 /usr/local/bin/php 
php -v

Answer 3

Here is how I installed PHP 7.1 on Amazon Linux:

wget http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6.rpm epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php71

wget ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/epel/6/x86_64/Packages/s/scl-utils-20120229-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh scl-utils-20120229-1.el6.x86_64.rpm 

yum install php71

https://gist.github.com/ihor/581d169886c29e7e17d01b0041167b01

Answer 4

Current answer to problem (not original version in question) - worth knowing since this is a bit simpler and php7 isn't available in the standard repos for Amazon Linux 2, and this didn't come up until I searched a bit harder:

amazon-linux-extras install php7.2

The version of extras can be checked with a list command if v7.2 is no longer current:

amazon-linux-extras list

Answer 5

You can now use the official php7 packages. Here an easy to follow guide.

1. Install Apache 2.4 and PHP 7.0 on Amazon Linux AMI

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

# Install Apache 2.4
sudo yum install httpd24

# Install PHP 7.0 
# automatically includes php70-cli php70-common php70-json php70-process php70-xml
sudo yum install php70

# Install additional commonly used php packages
sudo yum install php70-gd
sudo yum install php70-imap
sudo yum install php70-mbstring
sudo yum install php70-mysqlnd
sudo yum install php70-opcache
sudo yum install php70-pdo
sudo yum install php70-pecl-apcu

2. Modify DirectoryIndex to include index.php

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

find this:

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

and modify it to look like this:

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</IfModule>

If a directory contains an index.html and an index.php, the server will serve the index.html with this setup. If you do not want that to happen, you have the following options:

Reverse the order, so index.php is served when both files exist:

 <IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
 </IfModule>

Only use index.php as the DirectoryIndex:

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.php
</IfModule>

3. Start the Apache web server

sudo service httpd start

4. Configure the Apache web server to start at each system boot

sudo chkconfig httpd on

5. Test your installation

Create phpinfo.php:

echo '<?php print phpinfo();' | sudo tee --append /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

Open your browser and enter your instance's public IP in the address bar followed by /phpinfo.php

Example: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/phpinfo.php

Note: Don't forget to allow incoming connections for HTTP (port 80) in the Security Groups of your instance, else your request will time out.

Answer 6

It's simple. Just:

sudo amazon-linux-extras install -y php7.2