PHP 7.0.0 finally Released

[Wayne Workman]

@Arrowhead-IT said:

The dashboard certainly did load noticeably faster too.

There are large improvements in efficiency, I understand. It’s one of the best reasons to move to 7. Of course there are likely security and functionality improvements as well.

[Quazz]

On ubuntu (after manually setting up the packages for php7.0 in .fogsettings) the install script fails at backing up database.

Also, there is no php7.0-mysqlnd yet as far as I know, so using version 5 for now.

[Tom Elliott]

@Quazz This is really why I say to play with Ubuntu.

I’ve added code to the installer to help with ubuntu when I can figure out what’s going on and needed for PHP 7 to work. One of the dependencies I’ve noticed is not used as a service, which is php-fpm.

I can install php7.0-fpm, but there is not a service file associated with it.

This is why the instructions I gave in this posting: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6285/php-7-0-0-finally-released/2# was not really saying you SHOULD use php 7.0 on debian/ubuntu as I don’t know what info to call out and what not to call out.

I have tried installing php 7.0 on Ubuntu 15.10 and Debian 8 but I have not had any luck on getting it to work.

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott said:

This is really why I say to play with Ubuntu.

That’s confusing.

[d4rk3]

I’m running pure PHP 7.0 on four different Ubuntu Server 15.10 servers…let me know how I can help!

[MRCUR]

@d4rk3 Are you running FOG on them?

[d4rk3]

@MRCUR No…just hopes and dreams.

Of course I’m running FOG on them lol…two normal servers and two storage nodes.

[Quazz]

@d4rk3 Could you go through the steps on how to make it work?

[d4rk3]

Update (don’t install yet) to the latest trunk via Git or SVN, then…

Edit /opt/fog/.fogsettings (or just comment out this line):

packages=''

Purge everything php5:

sudo service apache2 stop

sudo apt-get purge -y php5 php5-common php5-json php5-gd php5-cli php5-curl php5-mysqlnd php5-fpm php5-mcrypt php5-readline libapache2-mod-php5

sudo rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ondrej-ubuntu-php5-5_6-wily.list
sudo rm -rf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf
sudo rm -rf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.load

Install php7.0:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php-7.0

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0 php7.0-phpdbg php7.0-readline php7.0-cgi libphp7.0-embed php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-curl php7.0-fpm php7.0-json php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql php7.0-opcache php7.0-gd php php-cli php-common php-curl php-gd php-mcrypt php-mysql php-readline

Edit /lib/ubuntu/config.sh (lines 19-23, 81, delete line 82):

php_ver=7.0
php_verAdds="-7.0"
repo="php${php_verAdds}"
[[ $php_ver != 7.0 ]] && phpcmd="php" || phpcmd="php"
[[ $php_ver != 7.0 ]] && phpfpm="php-fpm${php_ver}" || phpfpm="php7.0-fpm"

[[ $php_ver != 7.0 ]] && phpini="/etc/$phpcmd/$php_ver/apache2/php.ini" || phpini="/etc/$phpcmd/$php_ver/apache2/php.ini"

That’s it then install the current trunk that you already updated to and the install should finish without errors.

If I had to guess I’d imagine that my work on config.sh could be simplified or improved but this always works and I don’t ever have to worry about php5 trying to re-install via .fogsettings.

Please feel free to use any/all of these steps as any of you please. I’m no expert on php but I can’t see any reason why the latest FOG shouldn’t be pure php7.0.

Feedback is always welcome

[Tom Elliott]

I’ve modified the installer a bit to allow for this.

If you want to give this a shot, yes you will have to first remove all of the existing php5 stuff.

I do it simpler with:

apt-get purge -y php* lib*php

However you do it is up to you.

I’ve made it so you can actually just add the info to your /opt/fog/.fogsettings (of course remove the packages as described as well.

Instead of modifying the core installer information add these lines to your .fogsettings file – before the packages line:

php_ver="7.0"
php_verAdds="-7.0"
repo="php-${php_ver}"

[Quazz]

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[Quazz]

@Tom-Elliott This works, except it looks for php.ini in /etc/php/apache2/php.ini rather than /etc/php/apache2/7.0/php.ini (which causes the install to fail)

Have to admit I’m not a fan of how they decided to change basic structures like that.

[Tom Elliott]

@Quazz that doesn’t make any sense.

The path found should be /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini or /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

I don’t quite understand why yours is backwards.

The line that handles this in lib/ubuntu/config.php is 81.

Here’s what I have it set as:

[[ $php_ver != 5 ]] && phpini="/etc/$phpcmd/$php_ver/apache2/php.ini" || phpini="/etc/$phpcmd/apache2/php.ini"

[Quazz]

@Tom-Elliott Thanks for the help, looks like the updating to the newest version didn’t properly merge the config file so it still had php_ver set to 7.0 which would produce the results I experienced.

I can confirm that it works now.

[d4rk3]

Awesome! I’m glad this is helping people update to php7.0…the performance increase is very worth it!

[Quazz]

Latest svn update causes install to fail at php7.0-mbstring (as it does not exist), which is rather confusing as I can’t find that package in the ubuntu install script or anywhere else for that matter.

[Tom Elliott]

@Quazz it’s new. I don’t know why, but they separated it, (they being ubuntu/debian maybe?).