Welcome to our guide on how to Install PHP 7.3 on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linux. PHP 7.3 was recently released with plenty of new features, bug fixes, performance improvement, deprecations as well as new functionalities. You can read more on the PHP ChangeLog page.
For installation of PHP 7.3 on other operating systems, use below guides:
How to Install PHP 7.3 on Arch Linux and Manjaro
How to Install PHP 7.3 on Debian 9 / Debian 8
How to install PHP 7.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 / Ubuntu 16.04 / Debian
How to Install PHP 7.3 on CentOS 7 / Fedora
How to install PHP 7.3 / PHP 7.3-FPM on Linux Mint 19
Install PHP 7.3 on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linux
Update your RHEL 8 system.
sudo dnf -y update
Add Remi and EPEL repository to RHEL 8:
sudo dnf -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm sudo yum -y install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm
Remi stream for PHP 7.3 and PHP 7.2 should be dded to your RHEL 8 system.
$ sudo dnf module list | grep php
php remi-7.2 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
php remi-7.3 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
php remi-7.4 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
php 7.2 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language Enable Remi repository for PHP 7.3 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8:
sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled remi-php73 sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled remi
Then install PHP and the extensions you want to use.
sudo dnf module install php:remi-7.3 sudo dnf update
Accept installation when promted:
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing group/module packages:
php-cli x86_64 7.3.9-1.el8.remi remi-modular 4.6 M
php-common x86_64 7.3.9-1.el8.remi remi-modular 1.1 M
php-fpm x86_64 7.3.9-1.el8.remi remi-modular 1.6 M
php-json x86_64 7.3.9-1.el8.remi remi-modular 71 k
php-mbstring x86_64 7.3.9-1.el8.remi remi-modular 520 k
php-xml x86_64 7.3.9-1.el8.remi remi-modular 229 k
Installing dependencies:
libargon2 x86_64 20171227-3.el8 epel 29 k
oniguruma x86_64 6.8.2-1.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 188 k
httpd-filesystem noarch 2.4.37-11.module+el8.0.0+2969+90015743 rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 34 k
nginx-filesystem noarch 1:1.14.1-9.module+el8.0.0+4108+af250afe rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 24 k
libxslt x86_64 1.1.32-3.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 249 k
Installing module profiles:
php/common
Enabling module streams:
httpd 2.4
nginx 1.14
php remi-7.3
Transaction Summary
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Install 11 Packages
Total download size: 8.6 M
Installed size: 36 M
Is this ok [y/N]: yYou should now have PHP 7.3 installed on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8. Confirm PHP version.
$ php -v
PHP 7.3.9 (cli) (built: Aug 27 2019 22:52:39) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.9, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend TechnologiesTo install other extensions, use the name format php-<extension>. The example below will install standard PHP extensions.
sudo dnf install php-fpm php-mysqlnd php-zip php-gd php-mcrypt php-mbstring php-curl php-xml php-pear php-bcmath php-jsonThe default PHP configuration file is /etc/php.ini . For Nginx web server, use PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) configuration file to set CGI settings /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
Start php-fpm service:
sudo systemctl enable --now php-fpmWhen PHP settings are modified, you may need to restart your Web server.
sudo systemctl restart nginx
OR
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Test PHP 7.3 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8
To test our installation, install httpd.
sudo dnf module install -y httpdActive httpd and php-fpm services:
sudo systemctl enable --now php-fpm httpdAdd phph test page:
echo '<?php phpinfo();' | sudo tee /var/www/html/info.phpBrowse to your server IP on http://localhost/info.php to see php in action.
Enjoy using PHP 7.3 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8. For installation and usage of PHP 7.2/7.1, refer to:
How to Install PHP 7.2 ,7.1 on RHEL / CentOS 8
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