This tutorial covers the installation of the PHP extension phpredis via the default CentOS 8 package manager DNF. It will also cover the installation of both PHP 7.4 and Redis on CentOS 8. Show PECL, the PHP Extension Community Library, is a repository of C extensions that are loaded directly into PHP. PHP Extensions expand the functionality of PHP. PECL extensions can be installed via the use of the pecl command. There are also PHP extensions provided by package repositories. The decision of which to utilize typically depends on how PHP was installed. Preflight Check
Step #1: Install PHP 7.4CentOS 8 provides PHP 7.2 and PHP 7.3 for installation in the default repository. PHP 7.2 is approaching EOL in 6 months and PHP 7.3 in about 18 months. Installing PHP 7.4 provides gains in the speed department and ensures a longer period of support going forward. 1. First, run the following command to set up the Remi repository, which will provide the PHP 7.4 and phpredis packages we want to install along with some handy package management utilities.
2. Next, take a look at the available PHP modules by running.
The output should look something like this.
3. Next, in order to enable the PHP remi-7.4 stream run the following dnf commands.
4. Finally, in order to install PHP, run the command.
To verify that PHP 7.4 is available, check the version by running this command.
Step #2: Install, Start, and Enable RedisIn order to make use of the phpredis extension, Redis must be installed on the system. To install Redis run.
Next, in order to start and enable Redis to start on system boot, run the following command.
Verify Redis is running by running this command.
Step #3: Install phpredisThe Remi repo set up at the beginning of this tutorial provides a packaged version of the phpredis extension. This is convenient because it eliminates some steps that would be required if it were installed with pecl. 1. In order to install phpredis, run the following command.
Run the following command to list the currently installed PHP extensions and search for Redis among them.
2. Last, as a good measure, restart php-fpm.
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