Installing PHP 5.6 on CentOS 7 for WordPress 5.2

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Installing PHP 5.6 on CentOS 7 for WordPress 5.2

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To install PHP 5.6, you have to install and enable EPEL and Remi repository to your CentOS 7 system using the commands below.

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

Next, install yum-utils which is an assortment of utilities that integrate with yum to enhance its default features, giving it more advanced package management options and also making it easier to use.
A few of its important features include manipulating repositories, enabling or disabling packages on the go and lots more, without any manual configurations.

yum install yum-utils

One of the most important program provided by yum-utils is yum-config-manager, which you can use to active Remi repository as the default repository for installing various PHP versions.

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php56

Now that you’ve enabled selected versions of PHP, you can install PHP with all needed modules as follows

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php56
yum install php php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysql php-ldap php-zip php-fileinfo

⇒Reboot
Afterwards, double check the installed version of PHP on your system.

php -v

You can upgrade to WordPress 5.2