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Upgrading PHP 7.2 to 7.4 for WHMCS on CentOS 7

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Lately  I needed an update of PHP (7.2 to 7.4) on my WHMCS CentOS 7 built box- here’re the process that I followed. But before that, I’m sharing my original post on setting up WHMCS on CentOS 7

Since I used remi repository to install version 7.2, I’ll be doing the same as well-

root@portal:~# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74
root@portal:~# yum update

Now install PHP 7.4 with all necessary modules with the command below-

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Install WHMCS on CentOS 7

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As you may know, WHMCS is the leading web hosting management and billing software that automates all aspects of your business from billing, provisioning, domain reselling and etc. In this article, we are going to install WHMCS 7.7.1 on CentOS 7.6.

We assume you have a valid WHMCS license and have downloaded its package from WHMCS download area.

Here are our environment OS and software versions:

  • OS: Centos 7.6 on VMware
  • WHMCS: 7.7.1
  • PHP: 7.2
  • Database: Mariadb 10.3
  • Web server: httpd 2.4

Here we start from a fresh minimal CentOS 7.6 installation.

1- Initial CentOS setup
Set correct time and date. here we use “Asia/Dhaka”:

# timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York

Change default root password:

# passwd

Set SELinux to permissive mode by editing /etc/selinux/config:

# vim /etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=permissive

Also to apply it immediately run:

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