Installing PHP 8 on CentOS 7

To install PHP 8 on CentOS 7, follow these steps:

Enable the Remi repository:

sudo yum install -y http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm 

Install the yum-utils package:

sudo yum install -y yum-utils 

Use the yum-config-manager command to enable the Remi PHP 8.0 repository:

sudo yum-config-manager --enable remi-php80 

Install PHP 8 and the necessary extensions:

sudo yum install -y php php-common php-opcache php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysqlnd 

Verify the PHP version:

php -v 

You should see output similar to this:

PHP 8.0.0 (cli) (built: Nov 24 2020 18:03:10) ( NTS ) 

That's it! You have successfully installed PHP 8 on CentOS 7.