Upgrade from PHP 5.X.X to PHP 7 on an AWS EC2 Linux Server

install-php-7.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo "==============================="
echo "Installing PHP 7"
echo "==============================="
sudo yum install php70

echo "==============================="
echo "Installing PHP 7 additional commonly used php packages"
echo "==============================="
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-pecl-apcu

echo "==============================="
echo "Linking PHP 7"
echo "==============================="
sudo ln -sf /etc/httpd/conf.d/php-conf.7.0 /etc/alternatives/php.conf
sudo ln -sf /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/15-php-conf.7.0 /etc/alternatives/10-php.conf

echo "==============================="
echo "Choose PHP 7 as an Alternative"
echo "==============================="
sudo alternatives --config php

Rock 'n roll! Thanks for putting this together and sharing.

Hello
Do you know, how can I do it in "Amazon Linux 2.0 (2017.12) LTS Release Candidate?

It seems that default repository do not have php70 package

Will this allow php56 packages to stay installed? Could I switch to php56 after installing php 7?

@asmendez re:

Do you know, how can I do it in "Amazon Linux 2.0 (2017.12) LTS Release Candidate?

Maybe start with this:
amazon-linux-extras install php7.2

https://stackoverflow.com/a/50673146/7010923

awesome work! thanks 👍

Thank you very much for this. I have been avoiding this upgrade for a while. I kept running into issues with the existing php5.6 version on my server. This did the trick perfectly. Many thanks.

Thank you! Worked without mangling up my configuration.

thank you buddy

Sorry, a query, it is not necessary to uninstall php5.6 first? how would the process for such an uninstall be, thank you very much! Regards!

Awesome!! this also seemed to work seamlessly with PHP 7.2 by replacing all the 70 or 7.0 to 72 or 7.2!

TY so much!

Useful, thanks!

Few hiccups, but those were on my end. Great job! Thank you!! As an alternative, I would offer the command line sudo update-alternatives --config php

thank you so much

thank you so much

No problem I'am glad that you found it useful!