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PHP on RHEL-8

syndicated from planet-php.net on November 16, 2018

RHEL-8 Beta is announced and is available for download for whom want to try it.



This is an opportunity to look at PHP installation and how modules work.

1. Installation



ISO image is available for everyone, see the README file.



Don't forget to enable the Beta repositories.



# dnf repolist
repo id                               repo name                                                     status
rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream Beta (RPMs) 4594
rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-beta-rpms    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS Beta (RPMs)    1686


2. Installation of PHP



PHP is not part of BaseOS which is the base of the Operating System, reduced to minimal, but is available in AppStream, i.e. as a module.



# dnf module list
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream Beta (RPMs)
php                  7.1          devel, minimal, defaul PHP scripting language
                                  t [d]
php                  7.2 [d]      devel, minimal, defaul PHP scripting language
                                  t [d]                  


You can see that both versions 7.1 and 7.2 (default) are available.



Installation of version 7.1



# dnf module install php:7.1
Dependencies resolved.
==========================================================================================================
 Package            Arch     Version                        Repository                               Size
==========================================================================================================
Installing group/module packages:
 php-cli            x86_64   7.1.20-2.el8+1700+11d526eb     rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms   2.9 M
 php-common         x86_64   7.1.20-2.el8+1700+11d526eb     rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms   624 k
 php-fpm            x86_64   7.1.20-2.el8+1700+11d526eb     rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms   1.5 M
 php-json           x86_64   7.1.20-2.el8+1700+11d526eb     rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms    70 k
 php-mbstring       x86_64   7.1.20-2.el8+1700+11d526eb     rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms   547 k
 php-xml            x86_64   7.1.20-2.el8+1700+11d526eb     rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms   187 k
Installing dependencies:
 httpd-filesystem   noarch   2.4.35-6.el8+2089+57a79027     rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms    32 k
 nginx-filesystem   noarch   1:1.14.0-3.el8+1631+ba902cf0   rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms    23 k
Installing module profiles:
 php/default
Enabling module streams:
 httpd                       2.4
 nginx                       1.14
 php                         7.1

Transaction Summary ========================================================================================================== Install 8 Packages

Total download size: 5.9 M Installed size: 20 M Is this ok [y/N]: y


Result:



# php -v
PHP 7.1.20 (cli) (built: Jul 19 2018 06:17:27) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies


And you can switch easily to  7.2



# dnf module install php:7.2
Dependencies resolved.
==========================================================================================================
 Package         Arch      Version                         Repository                                Size
==========================================================================================================
Upgrading:
 php-cli         x86_64    7.2.11-1.el8+2002+9409c40c      rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms    3.1 M
 php-common      x86_64    7.2.11-1.el8+2002+9409c40c      rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms    653 k
 php-fpm         x86_64    7.2.11-1.el8+2002+9409c40c      rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms    1.6 M
 php-json        x86_64    7.2.11-1.el8+2002+9409c40c      rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms     73 k
 php-mbstring    x86_64    7.2.11-1.el8+2002+9409c40c      rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms    580 k
 php-xml         x86_64    7.2.11-1.el8+2002+9409c40c      rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-beta-rpms    188 k
Switching module streams:
 php                       7.1 -> 7.2

Transaction Summary ========================================================================================================== Upgrade 6 Packages

Total download size: 6.2 M Is this ok [y/N]: y


Result:



# php -v
PHP 7.2.11 (cli) (built: Oct  9 2018 15:09:36) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies


3. Web usage



3.1 with Apache HTTP Server

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