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Connect your Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance
Before installing PHP, you must update your privileges to root user (sudo su).
Installing the Apache Webserver.
$ yum install httpd -y
Check server running status
$ service httpd status
If you notice that the server is inactive, run the command below to start it.
$ service httpd start
Now copy and paste the EC2 Instance Public DNS, such as ec2-54-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com, into your browser and see if the apache server is up and running.
Check for the inclusion of the amazon-linux-extras package:
$ which amazon-linux- extras/usr/bin/amazon-linux-extras
Install the package that will configure the repository if the command does not return some output:
$ sudo yum install -y amazon-linux-extras
$ sudo amazon-linux-extras | grep php
NOTE: The livepatch extra is in public preview, not meant for production use
15 php7.2 available \
17 lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 available \
31 php7.3 available \
42 php7.4 available [ =stable
We’ll enable the php 7.4 topic in this case, as we can see all PHP 7 topics.
$ sudo amazon-linux-extras enable php7.4
Now, from the repository, install PHP packages.
$ sudo yum clean metadata
$ sudo yum install php php-{pear,cgi,common,curl,mbstring,gd,mysqlnd,gettext,bcmath,json,xml,fpm,intl,zip,imap}
Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
php x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 3.2 M
php-bcmath x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 68 k
php-cli x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 4.9 M
php-common x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 1.1 M
php-fpm x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 1.7 M
php-gd x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 180 k
php-intl x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 221 k
php-json x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 70 k
php-mbstring x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 511 k
php-mysqlnd x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 238 k
php-pear noarch 1:1.10.7-3.amzn2.0.1 amzn2-core 354 k
php-xml x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 198 k
Installing for dependencies:
apr x86_64 1.6.3-5.amzn2.0.2 amzn2-core 118 k
apr-util x86_64 1.6.1-5.amzn2.0.2 amzn2-core 99 k
apr-util-bdb x86_64 1.6.1-5.amzn2.0.2 amzn2-core 19 k
generic-logos-httpd noarch 18.0.0-4.amzn2 amzn2-core 19 k
httpd x86_64 2.4.43-1.amzn2 amzn2-core 1.3 M
httpd-filesystem noarch 2.4.43-1.amzn2 amzn2-core 23 k
httpd-tools x86_64 2.4.43-1.amzn2 amzn2-core 87 k
libxslt x86_64 1.1.28-5.amzn2.0.2 amzn2-core 243 k
libzip x86_64 1.3.2-1.amzn2.0.1 amzn2-core 62 k
mailcap noarch 2.1.41-2.amzn2 amzn2-core 31 k
mod_http2 x86_64 1.15.3-2.amzn2 amzn2-core 146 k
oniguruma x86_64 5.9.6-1.amzn2.0.3 amzn2-core 127 k
php-pdo x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 133 k
php-process x86_64 7.4.5-1.amzn2 amzn2extra-php7.4 88 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 12 Packages (+14 Dependent packages)
Total download size: 15 M
Installed size: 61 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Check the default PHP Version
$ php -v
PHP 7.4.15 (cli) (built: Feb 11 2021 17:53:39) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
$ sudo amazon-linux-extras disable php7.4
$ sudo amazon-linux-extras disable php7.3
$ sudo amazon-linux-extras enable php7.2
$ sudo yum install php php-{pear,cgi,common,curl,mbstring,gd,mysqlnd,gettext,bcmath,json,xml,fpm,intl,zip,imap}
Check PHP version
$ php -v
PHP 7.2.31 (cli) (built: Jul 2 2020 23:17:00) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
Installing PHP 7.3 on Amazon AWS EC2, similar commands can be used.
Learn more: How to import MySQL from SQL File with PHP
Conclusion:
