ServerGrove provides a YUM repository with the latest PHP versions packages in RPM. This makes dead simple to install and upgrade PHP. Follow these steps to setup the repository in your server and install/upgrade PHP:
Setup ServerGrove repository
If you have not installed the repository, download the RPM repository package from http://repos.servergrove.com/servergrove-rhel-6/x86_64/servergrove-rhel-6-repo-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm and install it with:
rpm -i http://repos.servergrove.com/servergrove-rhel-6/x86_64/servergrove-rhel-6-repo-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
Installing PHP
To install PHP, run the following commands:
$ yum install php54 php54-apc
Install PHP Apache module:
$ yum install php54-mod_php
Upgrading PHP
To upgrade PHP, simple run:
yum upgrade
Configuration files and paths
The main installation is placed in /usr/local/php54 or /usr/local/php53. The configuration files are placed in /etc/php54 or /etc/php53.
PHP 5.3
If you want to install PHP 5.3, replace 'php54' with 'php53' in the package names.
