Hello, friends. This post will help you install PHP 8 on CentOS 8. The procedure is quite simple.
PHP 8 has seen the light and comes loaded with many interesting new features and is a step ahead of the most popular web programming language. So many developers and sysadmin may be eager and ready to install it on their CentOS 8
Install PHP 8 on CentOS
For this tutorial, we’ll use Apache as the server but you can also install Nginx. In any case, the important thing about this post is the installation of PHP 8.
Open a terminal and with the help of sudo, update CentOS
sudo dnf update
Then, install the Apache webserver
sudo dnf install httpd
Enables Apache service to boot up and initialize the system
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl start httpd
Now check its status
sudo systemctl status httpd ● httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-11-26 12:13:02 EST; 2s ago Docs: man:httpd.service(8) Main PID: 15871 (httpd) Status: "Started, listening on: port 80" Tasks: 213 (limit: 2860) Memory: 17.2M CGroup: /system.slice/httpd.service ├─15871 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND ├─15874 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND ├─15875 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND ├─15876 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND └─15877 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND Nov 26 12:13:00 osradar systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server… Nov 26 12:13:02 osradar httpd[15871]: AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.1.18. Set the 'ServerName' di> Nov 26 12:13:02 osradar systemd[1]: Started The Apache HTTP Server. Nov 26 12:13:05 osradar httpd[15871]: Server configured, listening on: port 80
So, Apache is running smoothly. Now you have to open the corresponding ports in the firewall:
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent
success
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=https --permanent
success
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
success
This way, Apache is ready to receive PHP 8.
Now it’s time to install PHP 8 thanks to the REMI repository. So add it,
sudo dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm
and then update the distribution
sudo dnf update
CentOS 8 incorporated the modules to better manage the packages and their versions. So, disable the default module of PHP 7.2.
sudo dnf module disable php
And enable the REMI repository
sudo dnf module enable php:remi-8.0
Then install PHP 8 and some modules
sudo dnf install php php-common php-pecl-apcu php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysqlnd php-pgsql php-gd php-mbstring php-xml
To test the installation, make a file with the phpinfo method.
sudo nano /var/www/html/test.php
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Save the changes and now open it from a web browser
So, PHP 8 is correctly installed on CentOS 8.
Conclusion
PHP 8 is another step forward in the development and evolution of the language. As CentOS 8 is a server operating system it is not surprising that many people want to have this new version so that new applications can take advantage of it.
