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In this article, I’m going to show you how to upgrade PHP 5.3 to PHP 5.6 on CentOS 6.7.
This article assumes you have a stock installation of CentOS, and that you already have PHP 5.3 installed
1. Verify current version of PHP
Type in the following to see the current PHP version:
php -v
Should output something like:
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Jul 9 2015 17:39:00) Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
Great, now we can move on!
2. Install the Remi and EPEL RPM repositories
If you haven’t already done so, install the Remi and EPEL repositories
rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
Enable the REMI repository globally:
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
Under the section that looks like [remi] make the following changes:
[remi] name=Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch #baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/remi/$basearch/ mirrorlist=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/remi/mirror enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
Also, under the section that looks like [remi-php55] make the following changes:
[remi-php56] name=Remi's PHP 5.6 RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch #baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/php56/$basearch/ mirrorlist=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/php56/mirror # WARNING: If you enable this repository, you must also enable "remi" enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
Type CTRL-O to save and CTRL-X to close the editor
3. Upgrade PHP 5.3 to PHP 5.6
Now we can upgrade PHP. Simply type in the following command:
yum -y upgrade php*
Once the update has completed, let’s verify that you have PHP 5.6 installed:
php -v
Should see output similar to the following:
PHP 5.6.14 (cli) (built: Sep 30 2015 14:07:43) Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
You’re done!
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thanks for article, its help me alot. 🙂
No problem!
Thanks, it works!
Glad it worked out 🙂
It not works:
$ yum -y upgrade php*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.h1host.ru
* epel: mirror.yandex.ru
* extras: mirror.h1host.ru
* remi: mirror.h1host.ru
* remi-php56: mirror.h1host.ru
* remi-safe: mirror.h1host.ru
* updates: mirror.h1host.ru
* webtatic: uk.repo.webtatic.com
Setting up Upgrade Process
No Match for argument: php.info
No package php.info available.
No Packages marked for Update
Forgot: CentOS 6.5 x64
This was very helpful.
Followed other site but only messed up.
I get the same…
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Upgrade Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.hyve.com
* epel: mirrors.coreix.net
* extras: mirror.vorboss.net
* remi: remi.check-update.co.uk
* remi-php56: remi.check-update.co.uk
* remi-safe: remi.check-update.co.uk
* updates: mirror.vorboss.net
remi | 2.9 kB 00:00
remi-php56 | 2.9 kB 00:00
No Match for argument: php.d
No package php.d available.
No Match for argument: php.ini
No package php.ini available.
No Packages marked for Update
Hey Steve,
Enter the following commands and send me the output:
php -vrpm -qa | grep php
cat /etc/redhat-release
Could be that you’re running an older version of CentOS, or have PHP compiled from source. The output from Yum looks a little funky too:
No Match for argument: php.dNo package php.d available.
No Match for argument: php.ini
No package php.ini available.
It shouldn’t be looking for php.d or php.ini as packages, because those don’t exist :/
It don’t work. I get error:
http://dl.atrpms.net/el6-x86_64/atrpms/stable/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 7 – “couldn’t connect to host”
Trying other mirror.
What mirror need?
Hello,
The mirror is correct. I think the issue lies with your system. Are your nameservers configured in /etc/resolv.conf? Are you behind a proxy?
Try cleaning yum up:
yum clean metadata
yum clean all
Actually, that mirror DOES appear to be dead. Check for
/etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and delete it.Then run ayum clean allhttp://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/229661/is-atrpms-dead
You are a god. This article just saved my ass big time. Thanks so much.
Thanks Michael!
Hi Andy,
Thanks for the guide.
I tried to follow it but I am getting a reply of:
No match for argument: phpunit.xml.dist
No package phpunit.xml.dist available
no packages marked for update
My CentOs version is 6.7 (Final)
PHP version: 5.3.29 (cli)
If would be great if you could help me on this.
Thanks
Hey James,
I’d love to help out, but first, I need a little more information.
Can you run the following commands for me:
rpm -qa | grep phpls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/Thanks!
Problems above are caused by the shell expanding php* to whatever php* files are located in the current directory.
To solve this, just quote the php* argument, such as:
yum -y upgrade “php*”
Hi Andy,
I tried it but get few errors like that :
Error: Package: 1:php54w-pear-1.10.1-1.w6.noarch (@webtatic)
Requires: php54w-ftp
Removing: php54w-common-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64 (@webtatic)
php54w-ftp
Obsoleted By: php-common-5.6.23-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56)
Not found
——————————————————–
Information about my server :
[root@nsXXXXXX ~]# rpm -qa | grep php
suphp-iworx-0.7.1-108.rhe6x.iworx.x86_64
php54w-process-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64
interworx-phpmyadmin-3.5.4-1137.iworx.noarch
suphp-0.7.2-101.iworx.x86_64
php54w-pdo-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64
php54w-xml-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64
php54w-pecl-apc-3.1.13-3.w6.x86_64
php54w-pear-1.10.1-1.w6.noarch
php54w-cli-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64
php54w-devel-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64
php54w-xmlrpc-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64
php54w-pecl-memcache-3.0.8-2.w6.x86_64
php54w-common-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64
php54w-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64
php54w-gd-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64
php54w-pecl-zendopcache-7.0.5-1.w6.x86_64
php-iworx-5.5.36-1.rhe6x.iworx.x86_64
php54w-mysql-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64
php54w-mbstring-5.4.45-2.w6.x86_64
ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 64
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 827 Jan 4 17:34 atomic.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1991 May 18 21:47 CentOS-Base.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 647 May 18 21:47 CentOS-Debuginfo.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 289 May 18 21:47 CentOS-fasttrack.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 630 May 18 21:47 CentOS-Media.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 6259 May 18 21:47 CentOS-Vault.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 957 Nov 5 2012 epel.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1056 Nov 5 2012 epel-testing.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 3997 Nov 27 2014 interworx.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1177 Dec 9 2015 remi-php70.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 2340 Jun 25 12:50 remi.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 449 Dec 9 2015 remi-safe.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 966 Jul 4 2015 webtatic-archive.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 868 Jul 4 2015 webtatic.repo
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 966 Jul 4 2015 webtatic-testing.repo
I’m lost :/
Thank you for your help
i want upgrade from 5.4 to 5.6
my CentOs is 6.8 final
Hey,
Unfortunately, this article may not suit your needs. You have a ton of extra packages/modules installed as well, which are going to conflict with this method. Keep in mind, this article was written for STOCK installations of PHP 5.3!
this is easier than using vim
yum-config-manager –enable remi
yum-config-manager –enable remi-php56
Thanks! Worked straight off without a hitch. Only thing different for me was I didn’t have a [remi-php56] section in my /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo so I just pasted it in.
Sweet! Glad it worked out for you!
I tried this steps on a test CentOS 6.7 and upgrade was smooth and fast, then I tried again with a VPS the same CentOS version but running into dependency error
Error: Package: gd-last-2.2.3-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
Requires: libwebp.so.5()(64bit)
Any advise or help will be much appreciated.
thanks.
Hey there,
So sorry for the delayed response >_< I would need to see the full yum output to be able to provide a precise diagnosis. This could be caused by any numbers of reasons, some not even related to PHP at all. Thank you!
damn, i love you.. for real! Thanks
Thank you very much, I love you too!
<3 ^_^
Hey, Thank you for your advice.
Unfortunately, my system’s a little b***h… Now, all PHP files aren’t parsed correctly but offered for downloading.
Where’s my mistake?
Should i mention that I’ve a running webmin / virtualmin environment with about 200 vhosts?
I was very thankful for every advice. Otherwise I had to downgrade.
Thanks
patrick
Hey Patrick,
Sorry about the late response here, and for reading about your troubles 🙁
Your issue sounds like its related to Apache/permissions more than PHP, however, it could also be that mod_php is not being loaded up into Apache. To precisely diagnose this, I would have to see your configuration.
In any case, please bear in mind that this guide was intended for people upgrading a stock/default installation of PHP 5.3 on CentOS without a control panel.
Thank you for the kind words!
If i stuck somewhere…. can i get back my old version?
Hello,
You would basically need to follow the steps in the guide, in reverse. Please make sure that you’re following this guide using a stock/default PHP installation.
after follow this tutorial why my php version are 5.5 not 5.6?can you explaint it?
love it, ty very much …. n.n
I just followed the steps.
Merci merci beaucoup.
Worked perfectly for me! Thanx a lot!
Its very good…. its helped me ….
Hello. after installation php 5.6 complete, I have trouble can’t login to phpmyadmin??? how to fix it. thank you
How about this?
“`
[root@localhost vagrant_data]# yum -y upgrade php*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Upgrade Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors.viethosting.vn
* epel: mirrors.digipower.vn
* extras: mirrors.viethosting.vn
* remi: mirrors.thzhost.com
* remi-php56: mirrors.thzhost.com
* remi-safe: mirrors.thzhost.com
* updates: mirrors.viethosting.vn
No Match for argument: phpinfo.php
No package phpinfo.php available.
No Packages marked for Update
“`
Thank you very much!
Very clean excellent explanation !
Thanks for article any reason that steps would be different on centos 6.3 checking before doing?
Thanks
please ignore above already on 6.8 – doh!!
I am however getting the following error – any pointers appreciated:
–> Running transaction check
—> Package libwebp.x86_64 0:0.4.3-3.el6 will be installed
—> Package libzip-last.x86_64 0:1.1.3-1.el6.remi will be installed
—> Package php-common.x86_64 0:5.3.3-48.el6_8 will be updated
–> Processing Dependency: php(api) = 20090626 for package: uuid-php-1.6.1-10.el6.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: php(zend-abi) = 20090626 for package: uuid-php-1.6.1-10.el6.x86_64
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: uuid-php-1.6.1-10.el6.x86_64 (@base)
Requires: php(api) = 20090626
Removing: php-common-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64 (@updates)
php(api) = 20090626
Updated By: php-common-5.6.30-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56)
php(api) = 20131106-64
Available: php-common-5.3.3-47.el6.x86_64 (base)
php(api) = 20090626
Available: php-common-5.4.45-11.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
php(api) = 20100412-x86-64
Available: php-common-5.4.45-12.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
php(api) = 20100412-x86-64
Available: php-common-5.6.29-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56)
php(api) = 20131106-64
Error: Package: uuid-php-1.6.1-10.el6.x86_64 (@base)
Requires: php(zend-abi) = 20090626
Removing: php-common-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64 (@updates)
php(zend-abi) = 20090626
Updated By: php-common-5.6.30-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56)
php(zend-abi) = 20131226-64
Available: php-common-5.3.3-47.el6.x86_64 (base)
php(zend-abi) = 20090626
Available: php-common-5.4.45-11.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
php(zend-abi) = 20100525-x86-64
Available: php-common-5.4.45-12.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
php(zend-abi) = 20100525-x86-64
Available: php-common-5.6.29-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56)
php(zend-abi) = 20131226-64
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
Hi, I make this but now phpmyadmin its not working :c
yessssssssssss so many thanks !!!!!! all ran just great !!!! thank you god bless you buddy !!!!!! yesssss
Just to let you i have common php conflict in php 7 and 5 and i manually removed web static and all other files from /etc/yum /yum.repos.d and it solved the problem.
and followed this site and it worked like charm.
Brilliant. Thanks
ravi
First of all, thanks so much!!
But I wasnt able to update.. this is the message I got
Error: Package: gd-last-2.2.4-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
Requires: libwebp.so.5()(64bit)
Error: Package: php-mysql-5.4.45-13.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
Requires: php-pdo(x86-64) = 5.4.45-13.el6.remi
Removing: php-pdo-5.4.16-42.el7.x86_64 (@base)
php-pdo(x86-64) = 5.4.16-42.el7
Updated By: php-pdo-5.6.30-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56)
php-pdo(x86-64) = 5.6.30-1.el6.remi
Available: php-pdo-5.4.45-13.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi)
php-pdo(x86-64) = 5.4.45-13.el6.remi
Available: php-pdo-5.6.29-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56)
php-pdo(x86-64) = 5.6.29-1.el6.remi
Error: Package: php-5.6.30-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (remi-php56)
Requires: httpd-mmn = 20051115
Installed: httpd-2.4.6-40.el7.centos.4.x86_64 (@updates)
httpd-mmn = 20120211
httpd-mmn = 20120211×8664
httpd-mmn = 20120211-x86-64
Available: httpd-2.4.6-45.el7.centos.x86_64 (base)
httpd-mmn = 20120211×8664
httpd-mmn = 20120211-x86-64
httpd-mmn = 20120211
Available: httpd-2.4.6-45.el7.centos.4.x86_64 (updates)
httpd-mmn = 20120211×8664
httpd-mmn = 20120211-x86-64
httpd-mmn = 20120211
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
I tried using –skip-broken, then rebooted, but my version is still 5.4 🙁
Would really appreciate if you could help.. any other data you may need?
Good tutorial. Lotsa steps. I use both Linux and Windows for various things, so I’ve got a method that’s a few steps shorter. 1) download PHP 5.6 2) put the folder location in your PATH. Boom. You’re done. Because it’s a hellava lot easier to deal with it on Windows, plus there are more tools for it.
Thank you. It works.
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This was most helpful. Thanks for taking the time to post this to help people like myself.
It’s perfect for me. Thanks
Worked GREAT!!!! TKS A LOT!!!
so many thanks. works great! I just upgraded from 5.3.3 to 5.6.31 on CentOS 6.
my trick: I have to run
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
uncomment baseurl to
[epel]
baseurl=http://mirror2.totbb.net/epel/6/$basearch
[epel-debuginfo]
baseurl=http://mirror2.totbb.net/epel/6/$basearch/debug
Is there any issue when I’m having the following messages:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/lib64/php/modules/apc.so’ – /usr/lib64/php/modules/apc.so: undefined symbol: zend_unmangle_property_name in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: ldap: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20090626
PHP compiled with module API=20131226
These options need to match
in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: memcache: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20090626
PHP compiled with module API=20131226
These options need to match
in Unknown on line 0
Having same issue here:
php -v
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: memcache: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20100525
PHP compiled with module API=20131226
These options need to match
in Unknown on line 0
PHP 5.6.39 (cli) (built: Dec 5 2018 15:39:09)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
Did you ever find a fix?
thanks man
Sheer genius. Even now (12/07/2018) this has worked perfectly! Thanks!
Its not working for me I need to update from php5.4.43 to php5.6.x
OS version is CentOS release 6.10 (Final)
I tried other approach also but system is not updating to php5.6 version1
sudo yum -y upgrade php*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, replace
Setting up Upgrade Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors.sonic.net
* centosplus: repos.lax.quadranet.com
* contrib: repos.lax.quadranet.com
* epel: mirrors.develooper.com
* epel-debuginfo: mirrors.develooper.com
* epel-source: mirrors.develooper.com
* extras: mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net
* remi-php56: mirrors.mediatemple.net
* remi-safe: mirrors.mediatemple.net
* rpmforge: mirror.hmc.edu
* updates: mirrors.usc.edu
* webtatic: us-east.repo.webtatic.com
* webtatic-debuginfo: us-east.repo.webtatic.com
* webtatic-source: us-east.repo.webtatic.com
No Match for argument: php-work
No package php-work available.
No Packages marked for Update
“base | 1.1 kB 00:00
epel | 3.6 kB 00:00
extras | 2.1 kB 00:00
flexbox | 1.9 kB 00:00
remi | 2.5 kB 00:00
remi-php56 | 2.5 kB 00:00
remi-php56/primary_db | 177 kB 00:00
updates | 1.9 kB 00:00
Setting up Upgrade Process
No Match for argument: php-5.3.3
No package php-5.3.3 available.
No Match for argument: php-5.3.3.tar.gz
No package php-5.3.3.tar.gz available.
No Packages marked for Update”
my php is still on 5.3.3
Perfect, it works! Thanks.
thanks for your guide
this is very useful for me
thank you
Is this also apply when upgrading to PHP 7.* ?
No, it doesn’t. At this point, as these articles were written 3 years ago, I can no longer recommend running CentOS 6 and/or PHP 5.
For the latest, check out my post on how to upgrade php 5-4 to php 7-3 on centos 7-5-1804/
Superb, After a lot of seraching and trying my version of php simply would not get uprgaded from 5.3.3 to 5.6 .
Only the changes indicated here worked perfectly.
Thanka a lot