CentOS 7 - upgrade PHP version from 7.2 to 8

TheUnreal

10/28/23, 11:45 AM

CentOS 7
Nginx
Current websites run on PHP 7.2

PHP -v says

```# php -v
PHP 8.0.25 (cli) (built: Oct 25 2022 09:42:31) ( NTS gcc x86_64 )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group```

But phpinfo() in the nginx server shows: PHP Version 7.2.34

Configuration File (php.ini) Path   /etc/opt/remi/php72
Loaded Configuration File   /etc/opt/remi/php72/php.ini

Nginx site config:

location ~ \.php$ {

               fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9072;   #set port for php-fpm to listen on
                fastcgi_index  index.php;
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include         fastcgi_params;
                include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;


        }

How I can upgrade my PHP to 8? (Or, why it's not updating/changing in the website level)

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Remi Collet

10/29/23, 6:37 AM

/etc/opt/remi/php72

Looks like you have installed multiple version of PHP.

fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9072;

This is the listen socket defined in the FPM configuration file for PHP 7.2 (in /etc/opt/remi/php72/php-fpm.d)

Simply change this to the one defined in the FPM configuration file for PHP 8.0 (see /etc/php-fpm.d)

You have to start (if not yet used) the FPM 8.0 service (probably "php-fpm")

You can also stop (if not used anymore) the FPM 7.2 service (probably "php72-php-fpm").

If you don't need PHP 7.2 anymore you can also uninstall it

dnf remove 'php72*'

Reminders:

for a proper repository configuration, follow the wizard instruction
CentOS 7 is old and close to its end of life (June 2024), I recommend a modern version (EL-8 or EL-9) especially to run modern software such as PHP 8.

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