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

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!