server

GMT

Installation

GMT is in EPEL. So first we need to install EPEL if not installed yet.

[root@server ~]# yum -y install epel-release
 
(snipped)
 
Installed:
  epel-release.noarch 0:7-13
 
Complete!

Then you can install GMT using yum.

MariaDB

Installation

To install the latest version of MariaDB, execute the script https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup. This creates /etc/yum.repos.d/Mmariadb.repo as follows;

PHP

Installation

Drupal requires latest version of PHP. So we need to install PHP 7.x using Remi repository.

Server setting

After installing CentOS7, small settings are necessary.

NTP client

Install chrony (an NTP client) by yum.

[root@server ~]# yum -y install chrony
Loaded plugins: 
 
(snipped...)
 
Installed:
  chrony.x86_64 0:3.4-1.el7
 
Dependency Installed:
  libseccomp.x86_64 0:2.3.1-4.el7
 
Complete!

Set NTP servers in /etc/chrony.conf