Upgrading from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7
Hello, we have several sites on a box with RHEL 6 and a side-loaded version of PHP 5.5.38. Does RHEL 7 support this version of PHP, and if so, would we need to use RH's distribution or will they support our side loaded version? All help is greatly appreciated.
Bob
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RHEL 6 comes with php-5.3.3-49.el6 and RHEL 7 comes with php-5.4.16-43.el7. There are also packages for php54, php55, php56, rh-php70, and rh-php71 available with the Software Collections add-on product. Those are the PHP packages we supply and support.
If you're considering SCLs, pay attention to the life cycles of the packages. Note that our PHP 5.5 package was EOL'ed in October 2016 so if you want to stay on PHP 5.5 then SCLs are not much use to you. You'd only buy the SCL addon if you wanted to constantly stay on a fairly recent version of PHP like 7.0 or 7.1 and keep that updated with upstream into the future.
Your current third-party PHP 5.5.38 is not supplied or supported by Red Hat, you're presumably already supporting that on your own or with assistance from another provider or the community. if you install RHEL 7 then you should be able to install your PHP on it and continue as you currently are.
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