Is FOG installer ready to install php70 under RedHat 7

[Fernando Gietz]

Hi,

I am having troubles with the performance of my FOG server, version 1.5.2, and I saw that my server run php 5.6. In this post PHP 7.0.0 finally Released appears that the performance of PHP 7 is better than PHP 5.6, then I have decided to upgrade the PHP version but the fog installer script installs the remi.php56 repository and doesn’t install the PHP7.

I can install the PHP 7 manually but is better that the installer does it automatic

Disable the repo that FOG installer installs:
#yum-config-manager --disable remi-php56
Stop all FOG services and httpd and php-fpm
yum remove php php-process-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-pecl-zip-1.15.2-1.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 php-mcrypt-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-mysqlnd-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-ldap-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-fpm-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-pdo-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-bcmath-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-pecl-jsonc-1.3.10-2.el7.remi.5.6.x86_64 php-common-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-mbstring-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-cli-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-gd-5.6.36-1.el7.remi.x86_64

Check taht the php 5.6 packages are uninstalled
#rpm -qa | grep php
#yum clean all
#rm -rf /var/cache/yum

[UPDATED]
I follow the instructions that are hosted in [webtatic](informacion en https://webtatic.com/packages/php70/)

#rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm
#yum install php70w php70w-bcmath php70w-fpm php70w-gd php70w-mbstring php70w-mcrypt php70w-mysqlnd php70w-process

Add the remi-php70 repository
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm (I had installed it)
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php70
yum -y update
[UPDATED]

Restart all FOG services and httpd and php-fpm (I my case I need to enable the php-fpm)
#systemctl enable php-fpm
#systemctl start php-fpm

[Fernando Gietz]

Works fine adding the remi-php70 repository! Please close the ticket

[Quazz]

Afaik, FOG installer already tries to install php 7 (it’s got 7.2 on mine).

It’s just that if you already have PHP installed (5.6 or whatever) it won’t change it afaik. (except updates I guess)

[Sebastian Roth]

@Fernando-Gietz On a system where FOG is already installed you want to take a look at /opt/fog/.fogsettings (line packages=...).

[george1421]

Also be aware that I think 1.5.2 FOG started using php-fpm service which also relies on being in sync with the installed version of php. I’m not 100% sure that 1.5.2 uses php-fpm or that was introduced with 1.5.3. A quick check with this command will tell you if its running ps aux|grep php-fpm if nothing is returned then you are OK. If php-fpm IS installed then we need to tweak a few settings to make FOG happier under heavy load.

PHP-FPM was specifically introduced to address the slow GUI issues because of the heavier demands of the 1.5.x fog gui.

[Fernando Gietz]

Hi @Sebastian-Roth my /opt/fog/.fogseetings:

# more /opt/fog/.fogsettings
## Start of FOG Settings
## Created by the FOG Installer
## Find more information about this file in the FOG Project wiki:
##     https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=.fogsettings
## Version: 1.5.2
## Install time: lun 12 jun 2017 15:33:24 CEST
ipaddress='10.0.15.4'
copybackold='0'
interface='ens192'
submask='255.255.255.0'
routeraddress='10.0.15.1'
plainrouter='10.0.15.1'
dnsaddress='10.10.13.6'
username='fog'
password="r/ED5ev+GmXD0GuoYHO5AAzCYsWXav7p2dksV40NivY="
osid='1'
osname='Redhat'
dodhcp='N'
bldhcp='0'
dhcpd='dhcpd'
blexports='1'
installtype='N'
snmysqluser='root'
snmysqlpass=''
snmysqlhost='localhost'
installlang='1'
storageLocation='/images'
fogupdateloaded=1
docroot='/var/www/html/'
webroot='/fog/'
caCreated='yes'
startrange=''
endrange=''
bootfilename='undionly.kpxe'
packages='bc curl gcc gcc-c++ gettext gzip httpd lftp m4 make mariadb mariadb-server mod_ssl net-tools nfs-utils php php-bcmath php-cli php-
common php-fpm php-gd php-ldap php-mbstring php-mysqlnd php-process tar tftp-server unzip vsftpd wget xinetd'
noTftpBuild=''
notpxedefaultfile=''
sslpath='/opt/fog/snapins/ssl/'
backupPath=''
php_ver=''
php_verAdds=''
sslprivkey='/opt/fog/snapins/ssl//.srvprivate.key'
## End of FOG Settings
httpproto='http'

Can I edit it to changes the php5.6 packages to php70w packages and upgrade my version to 1.5.4?

I installed php-fpm from working branch because the 1.5.1 version had performance problems XD, I think that php-fpm was introduced in 1.5.2.
PHP-FPM works great and if you install php70w and php-fpm70w works better than php56.

[Fernando Gietz]

Well, I have tested the installer og FOG 1.5.4 and works fine but first you need something.

Add the remi-php70 repository
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm (I had installed it)
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php70
yum -y update

The last command update the php70 to the remi-php70 version (in my case php 7.0.32) and desinstalled the php70w version (I installed the php 7.0 version from webtonic repository)

I run the installer and works fine. I will test it again in the production server, if it is success, please, close the ticket

[Fernando Gietz]

Works fine adding the remi-php70 repository! Please close the ticket