How to Install PHP 7.4 in Rocky Linux 8

By default, Official Rocky Linux 8 software repositories comes with PHP 7.2 . The newer PHP versions is also available within the Rocky Linux 8 - AppStream repository. We will show here how to enable and install PHP 7.4 on Rocky Linux 8.

PHP is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. As of April 2020, PHP 7 is the most used version of the language with 50.6% of sites using PHP and 39.6% of all websites on the web.

Enable PHP 7.4

Below command will show the list of all available PHP versions.

sudo dnf module list php

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Enable the required version

sudo dnf module enable php:7.4

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Install PHP 7.4

sudo dnf install php

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