Otherwise, there is a good chance that ImageMagick package dependencies will cause the upgrade process to fail. Step 10: If you already have ImageMagick installed on your server, you will need to remove it and reinstall later. Step 9: To be safe, check that the php7.4 topic is the only topic enabled before proceeding. Step 7: Check the status of the topics – all should show as available. You may see a warning message, “Beware that disabling topics is not supported after they are installed.” This message can be safely ignored. $ sudo amazon-linux-extras disable lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 Step 6: Disable both the php7.2 and lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 topics $ sudo amazon-linux-extras disable php7.2

It should show both the PHP 7.2 and lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 topics enabled, and php7.4 as available. Step 5: Confirm the PHP7.x topic is available in Amazon Linux 2: $ sudo amazon-linux-extras | grep php If it isn’t installed, then you will need to install using the yum install command.

Step 4: Check to make sure that the amazon-linux-extras package is installed. If running PHP 7.2, you should see something similar to the following: Step 3: Check your php version to confirm it is running PHP 7.2 $ php -v Step 2: Check for update to make sure the system is up to date as is. Step 1: Login to the Linux instance using a terminal shell such as PuTTy. If all goes smoothly, it should take less than 15 minutes from start to finish.īefore proceeding, this article assumes you have some server knowledge, understand configuring a web server and the web server’s configuration options, have the privileges to update your server, and have a method to recover the original server state if things go sideways.

After reviewing a few resources on installing or updating to PHP 7.4 on Amazon Linux 2, I put the following together that goes through the steps necessary to update if you used their tutorial to set up your server. I used Amazon’s excellent tutorial, Install a LAMP web server on Amazon Linux 2, to set it up which uses their lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 package as the basis for the web server. My WordPress install operates on an Amazon EC2 instance running Amazon Linux 2. I finally got tired of my WordPress installation complaining about the version of PHP I was running.

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