Installation - Centos 7 & PHP 7?

[ablohowiak]

What version of PHP on Centos 7 is fog compatible with?

Building a new system and I installed php 7.2. When I went to install fog 1.52 it had issues with:

php-bcmath
php-fpm
php-ldap
php-mcrypt

I went back installed those specific 7.2 packages. The installer still fails on those packages and I’ve confirmed some parts of fog aren’t working. I don’t want to settle for version 5.x of PHP if I don’t have to. Thanks.

[Wayne Workman]

@ablohowiak Don’t pre-install anything, the FOG Installer does all of that for you (php 7). Refer to this guide: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=CentOS_7
Get the fog server going using the instructions we have written - because this is what we are familiar with and what we are able to support. After that, you can do whatever you want.

[ablohowiak]

Thanks Wayne.

I was trying to get some other programs installed before fog. I’ll try it the other way.

[Wayne Workman]

@ablohowiak You’re welcome, and no big deal. Your question will help someone in the future.

[Quazz]

There are no PHP7 packages in the official Centos repos I believe, so FOG won’t automatically sort it out for you.

On OS that does have official PHP7 packages, FOG will attempt to install those during installation.

[Wayne Workman]

@quazz It does setup PHP 7 using the Remi repository.

[Quazz]

@wayne-workman I stand corrected

[ablohowiak]

@wayne-workman
I started with a basic web server install for Centos 7 and the downloaded and installed fog 1.5.2. I added a info.php page to check the php version and it showed PHP Version 5.6.36.

Here’s a listing of the enabled repositories after the install.

So do I need to start with a minimal install?

[Tom Elliott]

@ablohowiak if you install fog initially, remi repos are installed but for red hat based installs it defaults to 5.6. If you disable the php-56 repo style, and enable the php72 repo and run update you will have php 7.2 install

[Wayne Workman]

Well now I stand corrected. It wasn’t always that way. @Tom-Elliott if FOG is not setting up php 7 on CentOS 7, then why even bother with installing the remi repo?

[Tom Elliott]

@wayne-workman because fog requires at least 5.6 and centos 7 defaults to 5.4

[Quazz]

@tom-elliott I tried this because I was curious. It turns out that in PHP 7.2, the mcrypt package is php-pecl-mcrypt as opposed to php-mcrypt. Installation works as the system correctly identifies it anyway, but then FOG update fails because it can’t find php-mcrypt installed.

I’m on FOG 1.5.2 currently, Centos 7.

Would have made a new thread, but this seems relevant enough to keep it in here.

[Tom Elliott]

@quazz php-mcrypt should no longer be needed with php-72 as we modified the code that used mcrypt to use OpenSSL. The only reason php-mcrypt was left in place was for legacy reasons. If you modify the packages line in the fogsettings file simply removing pho-mcrypt from the list you should have no problems.

[Quazz]

@tom-elliott Cool, that worked perfectly