Patrick Domingues

In this tutorial I will show you how to upgrade to PHP version 8 on CentOS 7. Having the latest stable PHP 8 will fix many older vulnerabilities. Lets follow these quick steps below to upgrade your PHP version.

Before moving forward make sure to have a backup image of your server.

1. Open your console windows and connect to your server.
2. Lets start by disabling all the old PHP versions.

yum-config-manager --disable remi-php56
yum-config-manager --disable remi-php70
yum-config-manager --disable remi-php71
yum-config-manager --disable remi-php72
yum-config-manager --disable remi-php73
yum-config-manager --disable remi-php74

3. Lets run the following commands individually to download the PHP 8 packages we need.

wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-8.rpm epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

4. We will now run the commands to install the latest PHP version 8 software.

yum install yum-utils
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php80
yum update -y

5. You should now be on the latest version of PHP 8. You can check … Read the rest