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

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-LAMP.html

can follow this step-by-step guide for LAMP installation

sudo yum update -y

sudo yum install -y httpd24 php70 mysql56-server php70-mysqlnd

sudo service httpd start

Answer 2

By default, just few Yum Repo is enabled on RedHat EC2. To enable all, just type

yum-config-manager --enable rhui-REGION-rhel-*

and do a yum list now, you should be able to see this:

yum list |grep php7