PHP7 support is the dream of every developer and admins. Earlier for php7, we needed to use either cloudlinux or 1H tools.
The newer version of cPanel comes with a new version of easyapache. It comes with a lot of features and the main one is the use of RPMs. By using RPMs, cPanel have made updating and installing a PHP module or apache module fast. Another advantage of easyapache4 is that it supports multiple versions of PHP.
Here in this article I am discussing how to add php7 support via command line in a cPanel server. I am assuming that you are on the easyapache 4 and if you are not, you need to convert from easy apache 3 to easy apache 4 as per this instructions.
Step 1
Update WHM to the latest
/scripts/upcp --force
Step 2
Install cPanel Apache
yum install ea-apache24-mod_deflate ea-apache24-mod_ssl ea-apache24-mod_proxy ea-apache24-mod_mpm_event ea-apache24-tools ea-apache24-mod_proxy_http ea-apache24-mod_expires ea-apache24-mod_socache_memcache ea-apache24-mod_proxy_fcgi ea-apache24 ea apache24-mod_suphp ea-apache24-mod_cgid ea-apache24-config-runtime ea-apache24-mod_suexec
Install cPanel PHP7
yum install ea-php70-php-curl ea-php70 ea-php70-runtime ea-php70-php-mbstring ea-php70-php-mcrypt ea-php70-php-cli ea-php70-php-zip ea-php70-php-odbc ea-php70-php-pdo ea-php70-php-opcache ea-php-cli ea-php70-php-common ea-php70-php-mysqlnd ea-php70-php-soap ea-php70-php-fpm ea-php70-php-gd ea-php70-php-iconv
Now you need to add this line to the .htaccess file of each site to convert the site to php7
<IfModule mime_module> AddType application/x-httpd-ea-php70 .php .php5 .phtml </IfModule>
