Install php without httpd on CentOS 7

Question

I have nginx installed, and I want to install php, but when I install php with yum install php, it requires httpd. Is there a way I can install php without installing httpd?

Answer 1

When you call (skip sudo when calling under root)

$ sudo yum install php

yum does want to install httpd (Apache web-server) as a dependency. In your case, since you are planning to use nginx you definitely do not need httpd. In order avoid httpd installation, but still have a working php call

$ sudo yum install php-fpm php-common php-cli

Answer 2

With nginx you should use php5-fpm:

yum install php5-fpm