Install PHP 5.6 on Red Hat 7

We activate the RHSCL repositories

yum-config-manager –enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms

What is RHSCL?

The goal of Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL) is to provide Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers with the latest and most stable versions of open source database and dynamic languages ​​so that users can create modern applications that can be confidentially deployed in production. These fast-moving collections are expected to be updated frequently and have a shorter lifecycle and support terms than Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

We install the SCL tools

yum install scl-utils

We install PHP 5.6

yum install rh-php56 rh-php56-php

We make the following symbolic links:

ln -s /opt/rh/rh-php56/enable /etc/profile.d/rh-php56.sh

ln -s /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/conf.d/rh-php56-php.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/

ln -s /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/10-rh-php56-php.conf /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/

ln -s /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/modules/librh-php56-php5.so /etc/httpd/modules/

We activate PHP 5.6

source /etc/profile.d/rh-php56.sh

All the best

:wq!