FOG 1.4.0 and PhP 7.0

[sudburr]

There were discussions a long while ago about the merits of using PHP 7.0 over the default 5.6 that is installed with FOG . Has any consideration been given to having the FOG installer installing 7.0 instead of 5.6?

[Tom Elliott]

@sudburr Right, I don’t touch the repo, this i leave up to you. I try to leave the installations as virgin to the OS as possible.

[sudburr]

FOG 1.4.2 still installs 5.6 in a virgin CentOS 7.3.1611.

[sudburr]

Cool. Installing it post-fact was never an issue, it just felt curious that 7.0 wasn’t installed by default after the conversations about how much better it made things.

[Tom Elliott]

So I corrected the functionality (or hopefully so) in the working branch.

[Tom Elliott]

For Ubuntu, it already does this automatically.

For Redhat, you need to install the repo that will allow you to install php 7. Remi repository does this for you, and I think you could do this by setting the ‘repos=’ variable in /opt/fog/.fogsettings to 'repos="remi,remi-php7"'