PHP is a popular scripting language for web development, PHP scripts can run on Linux, macOS, Windows and many other Unix systems, this article will guide you to install PHP 8.0 on VPS Ubuntu 20.04
PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is open source software (OSS) used for server-side communication such as collecting form data, managing files on the server, modifying databases…, while JavaScript can be used for both frontend and backend and Python – only for the client side (backend)
WordPress is built on the use of PHP, so this is a commonly used language, with low cost and integrated with databases such as MySQL, Oracle, Sybase… creating all kinds of platforms such as e-commerce, blogs, social media.
PHP 8.0 is a major update of the PHP language, the official version of PHP 8 was released on November 26, 2020. This is a new version with many features and performance improvements. Some of the exciting new features that come with PHP 8 include JIT compilation, named arguments, type merge, attributes, and many more.
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Update all system packages to the latest version by running the commands below:
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y upgrade
Then reboot your system by running the following command:
sudo systemctl reboot
Ubuntu 22.04 comes with the packages and many other extensions needed for PHP 8 integration. For Ubuntu 20.04/18.04, the latest PHP packages are available in the Ondrej Sury PPA repository. Run the following commands to add this repository to your Ubuntu system.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install lsb-release ca-certificates apt-transport-https software-properties-common -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Press Enter when prompted to confirm.
From the update results, you will see the repositories have been added.
Update the APT index to ensure it is qualified for installing packages.
sudo apt update
Then, install PHP 8.0 on the Linux server Ubuntu 20.04
sudo apt install php8.0
Press y => Enter to start the installation.
Check the PHP version that has just been successfully installed on the server with the following command:
php -v
So you have installed PHP 8.0 on VPS Ubuntu 20.04
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