CentOS 7 VestaCP Upgrade PHP to 7.x

On CentOS 7 VestaCP install PHP 5.6 by default. This is very old version of PHP. To upgrade PHP to latest version 7.x, you can install remi repo.

Install EPEL repo

yum install -y epel-release

Install yum-utils

yum install -y yum-utils

Install remi repo

rpm -ivh http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

Select PHP version you need

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73

Here i selected PHP 7.3. You can select differnt PHP versions with commands like.

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php56
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php71
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php72
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74

Make sure you only enable one PHP version. If you enabled a PHP version from remi repo, disable it with

yum-config-manager --disable remi-php56
yum-config-manager --disable remi-php70
yum-config-manager --disable remi-php71
yum-config-manager --disable remi-php72
yum-config-manager --disable remi-php73
yum-config-manager --disable remi-php74

Once you have desired version enabled, run yum upgrade

yum upgrade

Or only for PHP, run

yum upgrade php*