Easy way to update PHP on Amazon Linux 2

Sep 10, 2020 PHP AWS EC2 Upgrade Amazon Linux2

People who have installed PHP using Amazon Linux Extra of Amazon Linux 2 for the past year or so can update PHP quite easily just by disabling & enabling the package with Amazon Linux Extra. is.

Reference: How to update php on Amazon linux 2(Thanks!)

#My environment

• -AWS
• -Development server
• -Amazon Linux 2
• -Introduced Extra for PHP 7.1
• -List of installed PHP libmcrypt php php-bcmath php-cli php-common php-dba php-embedded php-enchant php-fpm php-gd php-gmp php-intl php-json php-ldap php-mbstring php- mysqlnd php-odbc php-opcache php-pdo php-pecl-igbinary php-pecl-mcrypt php-pecl-zip php-pgsql php-process php-pspell php-recode php-soap php-xml php-xmlrpc
• -This Ansible is used to initially build the server. –Apache, MariaDB –I’m running concrete5 CMS.
• -Run as a user with sudo privileges such as ec2-user

#Procedure

1. Disable Amazon Extra PHP7.1: $ sudo amazon-linux-extras disable php7.1
2. Enable Amazon Extra PHP7.3: $ sudo amazon-linux-extras enable php7.3
3. sudo yum update ――Actually, only PHP should be updated, but since it is development, I ran it all together. If it’s a production environment, should I just select PHP and run it to update? –Example: sudo yum update php *