Hello guys,

On thing that I've noticed when working with AWS cloud9 is that by default, it has PHP 5 installed. My question was what if I want to use PHP 7 for development ?

So in this post, I will explain to you how to setup your PHP 7 environement on AWS.

I am assuming that your AWS settings are as follows :

• Environment type : EC2
• Platform : Amazon Linux

Let's get started.

In your bash terminal on AWS, check your current PHP version,

ec2-user:~/environment $ php -v

Normally you should see,

In order to do these changes, you will need to connect as root, so just type sudo su followed by yum update :

ec2-user:~/environment $ sudo su
[root@ip-172-31-30-164 environment]# yum update

The process might take couple of minutes. Then remove any existing PHP packages.

[root@ip-172-31-30-164 environment]# yum remove php*

Note : If you already have Apache 2.4, you don't need to remove your web server but if you have an older version, then remove it and install Apache 2.4,

[root@ip-172-31-30-164 environment]# yum remove httpd*

[root@ip-172-31-30-164 environment]# yum install httpd24

If everything is working fine till now, you did a great job.

Now it's time to install PHP 7. As you know, there are multiple versions, i.e : php7.0, php7.1, php7.2...

Below are the command for different php version you want to install.

PHP 7.0

[root@ip-172-31-30-164 environment]# yum install php70 php70-mysqlnd php70-imap php70-pecl-memcache php70-pecl-apcu php70-gd

PHP 7.1

[root@ip-172-31-30-164 environment]# yum install php71 php71-mysqlnd php71-imap php71-pecl-memcache php71-pecl-apcu php71-gd

PHP 7.2

[root@ip-172-31-30-164 environment]# yum install php72 php72-mysqlnd php72-imap php72-pecl-memcache php72-pecl-apcu php72-gd

Let's say we want to have PHP 7.2

And here you have it..

You can easily work with PHP 7 on AWS now.