I have a legacy system in which Apache 2.2.34 (linux) is installed along with php 5.3.29 (CLI).
I just want to upgrade my apache to 2.4.x so that I will be able to use php 7.
I have tried searching for the same but majority of sites provide solution for CentOS or Ubuntu. I'm new to Linux so I'm a bit confused when applying the same on Amazon EC2 instance.
That would be really helpful if someone can provide me a step by step process to do the upgrade process. I just need to upgrade the server and I can do the configuration accordingly.
After some more googling, I have found the steps I have taken to upgrade. Hope that helps anyone looking for the same:
Login to your Linux instance and perform the regular system updates first
$ sudo yum update
Stop the running web server
$ sudo service httpd stop
Create backup of the existing httpd by using command:
$ sudo cp -a /etc/httpd /etc/httpd.bak
Remove any existing PHP packages
$ sudo yum remove php*
Remove old web server installs
$ sudo yum remove httpd*
Update yum package repository
$ sudo yum clean all
$ sudo yum upgrade -y
Install Apache 2.4
$ sudo yum install httpd24
Install PHP 7 packages
$ sudo yum install php70 php70-mysqlnd php70-imap php70-pecl-memcache php70-pecl-apcu php70-gd
Install a new version of mod_ssl
$ sudo yum install mod24_ssl
I also needed to reconfigure /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf in order to enable SSL and pretty permalinks.
Finally all I needed to do is start my web server
$ service httpd start
That's it.