How To Install php on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install php
on CentOS 7.
What is php
PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP also offers built-in database integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most common use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts. The php package contains the module (often referred to as mod_php) which adds support for the PHP language to Apache HTTP Server.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install php
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install php.
Install php on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install php
using yum
by running the following command:
Install php on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install php
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall php on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the php
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install php
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.