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I need to install PHP 7.3 on my CentOS 7.5 which already has PHP 5.4 and 7.0.27 versions but I saw difference in installing commands and since I'm not a professional I need to ask before begin installing it about the differences

In virtualmin.com .. The commands to install PHP v7.0 (Below) .. Why I cannot replace 70 with 73 to install PHP v7.3? I google this line [rh-php73] and I found only v7.2 [rh-php72] in centos.pkgs.org so Should I wait until the rh-php73 become a part of this website?

yum install centos-release-scl
yum install rh-php70 rh-php70-php-mysqlnd

Otherwise to install PHP v7.3 (Remi) we should install [Epel, Remi] repositories then start to install PHP from remi

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
yum-config-manager --enable epel
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73

I just need to understand what is Remi and is it safe to install PHP 7.3 on CentOS or should I wait until PHP v7.3 become a part of centos.pkgs.org website?

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  • You should follow the directions given by virtualmin, and do not deviate from them. We cannot support virtualmin systems here.
    – Michael Hampton
    Apr 7, 2019 at 20:09
  • The pkgs.org is merely an aggregator website for many package repositories (not just for CentOS).
    – Danila Vershinin
    May 13, 2019 at 7:56

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Reformatted based on the comments below.

PHP is open source, so it makes possible that many maintainers can publish their repos and packages for the same thing.

remi-* are packed and managed by Remi Collet. We might consider that's a personal project, and when using it you accept all its limitation (on support side for instance).

rh-* carry the Red Hat prefix, and when you are a Red Hat customer they fall under the support contracts. Like Remi commented, there is no significant difference as rh-* are the upstream of remi-*.

Note that if you are not a Red Hat customer with support contracts, you should feel free to use whatever available.

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    Remi Collet manages all of those packages; the Red Hat ones in his professional capacity, and the remi ones outside of work.
    – Michael Hampton
    Apr 7, 2019 at 20:08
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    And FYI, SCL packages in remi repository are used as upstream for official RH collections (ex remi already have php73 which will be used to create rh-php73). Base packages are used as upstream for Fedora, which is used as upstream for RHEL base repostiory.
    – Remi Collet
    Apr 8, 2019 at 5:49

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