PHP 7.2 to 7.4 Upgrade Instructions for RHEL 8 & Oracle 8


Purpose

This document is intended for use by Nagios Administrators who wish to update their version of php 7.2 to php 7.4 on a RHEL 8 or Oracle 8 systems. 

RHEL 8/Oracle 8 PHP Upgrade process:

From the command line on the XI server:

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm
dnf module list php

 

Disable the 7.2 module that is enabled:

dnf module reset php:7.2
dnf module list php
dnf module enable php:remi-7.4
dnf install php php-imap php-opcache php-devel php-gd php-ldap php-mbstring php-pdo  php-pdo-dblib php-mysqlnd php-pgsql php-pear
cd /tmp
rm -rf /tmp/nagiosxi
wget https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/xi-latest.tar.gz
tar zxf xi-latest.tar.gz
cd /tmp/nagiosxi
rm -rf /etc/php.d/sourceguardian.ini
./init.sh
sed -i '/^PHP script/d' xi-sys.cfg
sed -i '/^1)/d' xi-sys.cfg
sed -i '/^2)/d' xi-sys.cfg
sed -i '/^3)/d' xi-sys.cfg
./install-sourceguardian-extension.sh

 

Restart httpd/php-fpm: 

systemctl restart httpd php-fpm


Article ID: 915
Created On: Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 9:13 AM
Last Updated On: Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Authored by: rspielman

Online URL: https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/php-7-2-to-7-4-upgrade-instructions-for-rhel-8-oracle-8-915.html