UPDATE PHP5.4 > PHP 5.6
Verify current version of PHP Type in the following to see the current PHP version:
php -v
Should output something like:
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Jul 9 2015 17:39:00) Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
Install the Remi and EPEL RPM repositories
If you haven’t already done so, install the Remi and EPEL repositories
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
Enable the REMI repository globally:
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
Under the section that looks like [remi] make the following changes:
[remi] name=Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch #baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/remi/$basearch/ mirrorlist=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/remi/mirror enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi Also, under the section that looks like [remi-php55] make the following changes:
[remi-php56] name=Remi's PHP 5.6 RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch #baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/php56/$basearch/ mirrorlist=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/php56/mirror # WARNING: If you enable this repository, you must also enable "remi" enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
Type CTRL-O to save and CTRL-X to close the editor
Upgrade PHP 5.3 to PHP 5.6 Now we can upgrade PHP. Simply type in the following command:
yum -y upgrade php*
Once the update has completed, let’s verify that you have PHP 5.6 installed:
php -v
Should see output similar to the following:
PHP 5.6.14 (cli) (built: Sep 30 2015 14:07:43)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
Redis Composer install php extension
cd /var/www/site/data/www/site.org composer require predis/predis