How to install php 5.6 on centos 6/7 working 100%:

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I was able to upgrade PHP to 5.6 using the instructions provided. However, it may be my CentOS 7 server, I had no joy compiling Suhosin using the provided instructions.

I received this error at this point: 

Code:

# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.

What I did was install the latest stable version of Suhosin for PHP 5.6, which is currently at v. 0.9.38.
Check the latest version to download https://suhosin.org/stories/download.html


The steps i took which succeeded:

Code:

# wget https://download.suhosin.org/suhosin-0.9.38.tar.gz
# tar -xvf suhosin-0.9.38.tgz

# cd suhosin-0.9.38
# phpize
# ./configure
# make
# make install

If this were a fresh install, or if Suhosin is reporting a different version, execute:

Code:

echo 'extension=suhosin.so' > /etc/php.d/suhosin.ini

NOTE: In my case this step was unnecessary

Restart apache web service

Code:

# systemctl restart httpd