How to install a newer version of PHP than what Yum installs?

Question

I have installed PHP by executing the following command:

yum install php

It installs PHP 5.3.3 in my server... but I want to install PHP 5.4. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Saw it on https://webtatic.com/packages/php54/

To install, first you must add the Webtatic EL yum repository information corresponding to your CentOS/RHEL version to yum:

CentOS/RHEL 7.x:

rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/epel-release.rpm
rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 6.x:

rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 5.x:

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el5/latest.rpm

Now you can install php by doing:

yum install php54w