PHP 5.6 or 7.0—CentOS
If you must install both Apache and PHP, install Apache first.
PHP versions supported
7.0.0, 7.0.1 | 7.0.2 | 7.0.3 | 7.0.4 | 7.0.5 | 7.0.6–7.0.x | 7.1.x |
5.6.0–5.6.4 | 5.6.5–5.6.x |
5.5.x |
Magento 2.1.x does not support PHP 5.5.
Help if you’re just starting out
If you’re new to all this and need some help getting started, we suggest the following:
- Is the Magento software installed already?
- What is the software that the Magento server needs to run?
- What operating system is my server running?
- How do I log in to my Magento server using a terminal, command prompt, or SSH?
Verify PHP is installed
To verify if PHP is installed already, enter php -v
. If PHP is installed, messages similar to the following display:
PHP 5.6.4 (cli) (built: Dec 20 2014 17:30:46)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2014, by Zend Technologies
The preceding message confirms that the Zend OPcache
is installed. We strongly recommend using the OPcache for performance reasons. If your PHP distribution does not come with the OPcache, see the PHP OPcache documentation.
If PHP is installed, continue with the next prerequisite, MySQL.
CentOS repositories
Linux systems provide software like PHP in one or more repositories. CentOS, unlike Ubuntu, has a set of officially recommended repositories. Other repositories are considered less safe for the reasons stated on the CentOS wiki.
We’re not aware that you can install PHP 5.6 or 7.0 from a CentOS-recommended repository. Therefore, you must consider the following:
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If you’re setting up a system that will be deployed in production, you should choose a hosting provider who uses repositories considered to be safe and reliable.
You should also consider upgrading to a later version of CentOS that has the desired PHP version in a recommended repository.
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If you’re setting up a development system, you can use any repository you wish.
In this topic, we show how to install PHP using the Inline with Upstream Stable (IUS) repository, which is not on the CentOS recommended list. However, packages installed from IUS do not use the same names as CentOS-provided packages, so no existing system packages are replaced.
Before you continue, review their Getting Started topic.
Magento does not officially recommend using the IUS repository. We discuss it here for example purposes only.
Continue with one of the following sections:
PHP 7 on CentOS 6 or 7
There is more than one way to install PHP 7.0 on CentOS; the following is a suggestion only. Consult a reference for additional options.
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CentOS 6. Enter the following commands in the order shown:
yum -y update yum -y install epel-release wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm wget https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm rpm -Uvh ius-release*.rpm yum -y update
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CentOS 7. Enter the following commands:
yum install -y http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/7/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-14.ius.centos7.noarch.rpm yum -y update
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Enter the following command:
yum -y install php70u php70u-pdo php70u-mysqlnd php70u-opcache php70u-xml php70u-mcrypt php70u-gd php70u-devel php70u-mysql php70u-intl php70u-mbstring php70u-bcmath php70u-json php70u-iconv php70u-soap
The
bcmath
extension is required for Magento Commerce only. -
Restart Apache:
service httpd restart
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Enter the following command to verify that PHP 7 is installed:
php -v
The following response indicates that PHP 7 is installed properly:
PHP 7.0.3 (cli) (built: Feb 4 2016 08:51:10) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
The preceding message confirms that the
Zend OPcache
is installed. We strongly recommend using the OPcache for performance reasons. If your PHP distribution does not come with the OPcache, see the PHP OPcache documentation. -
Continue with Required PHP settings.
PHP 5.6 on CentOS 6 or 7
There is more than one way to install PHP 5.6 on CentOS; the following is a suggestion only. Consult a reference for additional options.
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CentOS 6. Enter the following commands in the order shown:
yum -y update yum -y install epel-release wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm wget https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm rpm -Uvh ius-release*.rpm yum -y update yum -y install php56u php56u-opcache php56u-xml php56u-mcrypt php56u-gd php56u-devel php56u-mysql php56u-intl php56u-mbstring php56u-bcmath php56u-soap
The
bcmath
extension is required for Magento Commerce only. -
CentOS 7. Enter the following commands in the order shown:
yum -y update yum -y install epel-release wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm wget https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm rpm -Uvh ius-release*.rpm yum -y update yum -y install php56u php56u-opcache php56u-xml php56u-mcrypt php56u-gd php56u-devel php56u-mysql php56u-intl php56u-mbstring php56u-bcmath php56u-soap
The
bcmath
extension is required for Magento Commerce only. -
Restart Apache:
service httpd restart
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Enter the following command to verify that PHP 5.6 is installed:
php -v
The following response indicates that PHP 5.6 is installed properly:
PHP 5.6.18 (cli) (built: Feb 4 2016 09:29:52) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
The preceding message confirms that the
Zend OPcache
is installed. We strongly recommend using the OPcache for performance reasons. If your PHP distribution does not come with the OPcache, see the PHP OPcache documentation. -
Continue with Required PHP settings.