What is the supported PHP7 installation method for CentOS 7

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@JaredBusch

I will not accept a recommendation from a random community member. No matter how knowledgable that person is (no offense @James_Hogarth).

Just forget about PHP 7 and recommendations.

Your own documentation clearly says that a supported operating system is CentOS 7. Your own documentation clearly says that PHP 5.6 + is required.

Those two things do not go together without a 3rd party change to the operating system.

When this shit storm went down a year ago with you at ownCloud, someone from ownCloud besides you, finally came in and clarified that PHP 5.4 was perfectly valid even though you said it was not.

At some point after that the same person from ownCloud posted an officially recommended method for installing PHP 5.6 +. I do believe is was IUS, but I cannot find that post right now, and it is also not relevant because NextCloud is not ownCloud.

What is NextCloud’s officially recommended method for acquiring PHP 5.6 +?

This is a very simple question.

It is simple, but why are you asking on the forums? There are only volunteers here and that essentially includes the folks paid to work for Nextcloud GmbH: none of us are paid to answer questions in an ‘official’ capacity. That we only do for customers. Sorry.

You’re using an open source product without support contract. So there is no ‘official’.

When our documentation says ‘supported’, all it means is that one or more of the developers (volunteers as far as the community is concerned) has tried it and it didn’t break.