{"id":6090,"date":"2021-02-05T16:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T10:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:35:27","slug":"php-8-on-centos-rhel-8-7-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/php-8-on-centos-rhel-8-7-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install PHP 8 on CentOS\/RHEL 8\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The PHP is an open-source server-side scripting language that suits to web development. The PHP finally released on November 26th, 2020 with lots of improvement and optimization. This blog helps you to install PHP 8 on CentOS\/RHEL 8\/7. If you are looking for PHP installation and server management, please contact our expert team to get it done on behalf of you. you can also refer our server management plan<\/a> for further assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 1: Enable EPEL repository on CentOS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Enable the EPEL repository into your system. The EPEL provides the extra packages for enterprise Linux that are not available by default on CentOS<\/a>\/RHEL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$ sudo dnf install -y https:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm  [On CentOS\/RHEL 8]\n$ sudo dnf install -y https:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm  [On CentOS\/RHEL 7]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The Remi repository which is a third-party repository that provides wide ranges of PHP version.
Run the following commands to install the Remi repository.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ sudo dnf install -y https:\/\/rpms.remirepo.net\/enterprise\/remi-release-8.rpm  [On CentOS\/RHEL 8]\n$ sudo dnf install -y https:\/\/rpms.remirepo.net\/enterprise\/remi-release-7.rpm  [On CentOS\/RHEL 7]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step 2: Install PHP 8 on CentOS\/RHEL 8\/7<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Once the installation is done, proceed and list the available PHP module streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ sudo dnf module list PHP<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Right side at the bottom, ensure to note the Remi-8.0 PHP module.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Install<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Enable the module before installing the PHP 8.0. To enable the PHP: Remi-8.0 execute the following command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Enable<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Install PHP 8.0 for Apache.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Run the following command to executive the 8.0 for Apache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ sudo dnf install php php-cli php-common<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\"PHP<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Installing PHP 8.0 for Nginx<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
$ sudo dnf install php php-cli php-common php-fpm<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step 3: Verify php 8.0 on centOS\/RHEL<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
$ php -v<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\"Verifying<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Add the following PHP code to populate the version of PHP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<?php\n\nphpinfo();\n\n?>\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Add and exit and ensure to restart the Apache or Nginx web server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ sudo systemctl restart httpd\n$ sudo systemctl restart nginx\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Paste the URL on the browser and go to the address shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
http://server-ip\/info.php<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
It displays a website that consists of information regarding the PHP that has been installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"PHP<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Step 4: Install PHP 8.0 extentions in centOS\/RHEL<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Use the following commands to verify the installed PHP extensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ sudo dnf install php-{extension-name}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Finally, you can verify the installed extensions by following the command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ php -m<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Execute, to verify specific extensions are installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ php -m | grep extension-name<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ php -m | grep mysqlnd<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\"CentOS\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Conclusion: <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
This blog will help you to Install PHP 8 on CentOS\/RHEL 8\/7. Follow the step if any error occurs you can contact our technical team support available 24\/7 for any assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The PHP is an open-source server-side scripting language that suits to web development. The PHP finally released on November 26th, 2020 with lots of improvement and optimization. This blog helps you to install PHP 8 on CentOS\/RHEL 8\/7. If you are looking for PHP installation and server management, please contact our expert team to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[232,102,25,231,233,72],"class_list":["post-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-centos-8","tag-centos7","tag-cloud-management","tag-install-php-8","tag-rhel-8-7","tag-server-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16409,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions\/16409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}