What is the supported PHP7 installation method for CentOS 7

[jospoortvliet]

@scottalanmiller

So I’m doing testing of NextCloud on Fedora 25 pretty extensively as it seems to meet all of the needs shy of being listed in the docs really well. Can I get involved in updating that part of the docs to get it listed? That would be great (and make me feel better about the time being put into the testing.) So far, it seems to run better on Fedora than anywhere else that I have tried. So I’d love to see that get an official stamp, even if I’m the one stamping it

abso-freakin-lutely! Yeah, that totally works.

/me looks up the right file

nextcloud/documentation/blob/master/admin_manual/installation/deployment_recommendations.rst

That one. You can edit it right away and make a PR out of it

Now wrt the whole ‘supported’ debate, looking at the documentation and stuff, it is a bit of a pita term, so I want to say sorry to @JaredBusch on that one. Eg if you see like “minimum supported PHP version 5.6” vs what distro is supported or recommended - that is all confusing.

When it comes to the PHP version, ‘supported’ means “we’ll ignore bug reports about stuff that isn’t working with older versions”, while with distro’s it is generally so that any LAMP stack with the right minimum versions means our contributors won’t ignore bug reports unless there’s a big red flag for that distro shipping something horribly broken.

So I guess that that is what supported means - and it is only applied to the bare minimum requirements, not to specific platforms, that is more of an enterprise thing. Hence no “this is supported and this isn’t” for the distro or the method of installing PHP 7: each is equally well accepted.

I hope this makes a little more sense.

[scottalanmiller]

Awesome, I’ll do some more testing and I’ll get right on that. That will provide a bit of the warm and fuzzies that I think a lot of us are looking for. Maybe I can get on Suse as well once that is done.

[JaredBusch]

And I finally found/noticed that farther down in the install documentation it clearly states that the use of SCL is the only recommended method of getting PHP 5.5 (likely copied from the old ownCloud guide). So that is the official answer, IMO, that I was looking for.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/11/admin_manual/installation/php_55_installation.html

[seqastian]

How is that a solution? It is not for PHP7. We are still left without a recommended CentOS7 PHP7 setup.

[Therion7777]

OMG.

CentOS 7 provides PHP version 5.4 in its official repository

Command to install the EPEL repository configuration package:
    yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Command to install the Remi repository configuration package:
    yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

Command to install the yum-utils package (for the yum-config-manager command):
    yum install yum-utils

You want a single version which means replacing base packages from the distribution

Packages have the same name than the base repository, ie php-*

PHP version 7.1 packages are available for CentOS 7 in remi-php71 repository

Command to enable the repository:
    yum-config-manager --enable remi-php71

Command to upgrade (the repository only provides PHP):
    yum update

© https://rpms.remirepo.net/wizard/

[JaredBusch]

@Therion7777 That is not supported. The official answer is that there is no supported method to get PHP > 5.4 except via SCL as SCL is what RHEL will support.

[Therion7777]

Yes, it supported! By remi!
Like Nextcloud is supported by Nextcloud team.

[tflidd]

We have a contribution to the documentation that adds this support but it needs to be reviewed: PHP 7 on CentOS: Install instructions are updated - review needed