How to Install PhpStorm on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we will show you how to install PhpStorm on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, PhpStorm is an intelligent and fully featured IDE for PHP developed by JetBrains. It also provides support for Javascript, Typescript, and CSS etc. You can also extend PhpStorm features by using plugins. By using PhpStorm plugins you can also get support for frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgniter. We can also use PhpStrom for other programming languages like HTML, SQL, Javascript, CSS and more.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation PhpStorm on a CentOS 7 server.

Install PhpStorm on CentOS 7

Step 1. First, let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

Step 2. Installing PhpStorm on CentOS.

Now, we will download PhpStorm using official PhpStorm download page using wget command:

Now to run PhpStorm like normal programs you should create symbolic link using the following command:

Step 3. Start PhpStorm.

You can launch PhpStorm using following command:

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed PhpStorm. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing PhpStorm on CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official PhpStorm web site.